Determiner vs. Qualifier — What's the Difference?

A determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated DET), is a word, phrase, or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context. That is, a determiner may indicate whether the noun is referring to a definite or indefinite element of a class, to a closer or more distant element, to an element belonging to a specified person or thing, to a particular number or quantity, etc.

(grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another.

One that determines.

One that qualifies, especially one that has or fulfills all appropriate qualifications, as for a position, office, or task.

(Grammar) A word belonging to a group of noun modifiers, which includes articles, demonstratives, possessive adjectives, and words such as any, both, or whose, and, in English, occupying the first position in a noun phrase or following another determiner.

(Grammar) A word or phrase that qualifies, limits, or modifies the meaning of another word or phrase.

(grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.

One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.

(grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.

A preliminary stage of a competition.

Something (some input factor, a nonsentient agent) that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.

A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.

Someone (a sentient agent) who determines; a decider of a disposition.

One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.

One who, or that which, determines or decides.

A contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition;

An argument that is conclusive

A content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb

One of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases

A determining or causal element or factor;