token
noun[C]
uk/ˈtəʊ.kən/us/ˈtoʊ.kən/tokennoun[C](SYMBOL)
C1
something that you do, or a thing that you give someone, thatexpressesyourfeelingsorintentions,althoughit might have littlepracticaleffect:
标志；表示；象征As atokenofourgratitudefor all that you have done, we would like you toacceptthissmallgift.为了表示我们对你们所做的一切的感谢，希望你们接受我们这份小小的礼物。
It doesn't have to be abigpresent- it's just a token.礼物不必大——只是为了表示一下。
Signs, signals and symbols
- beacon
- breadcrumb
- cryptanalyst
- delimiter
- digital badge
- ideogram
- indicator
- lagging indicator
- leading indicator
- litmus test
- logograph
- marksomething/someoneoff
- prompt
- signboard
- signifier
- signing
- SOS
- status symbol
- the all-clear
- totem pole
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Showing and demonstrating
Presents and gifts
tokennoun[C](WORTH MONEY)
UK(USgift certificate)
apieceofpaper, acard, or anelectronicdocumentwith aparticularamountofmoneyshownon it that can beexchangedin ashoporonlineforgoodsof thatvalue:
a £20recordtoken
He alwaysboughtme tokens for adepartmentstorefor mybirthday.
See also
book token
gift token
C1UK(USgift certificate)
a roundmetalorplasticdiscthat can be usedinsteadofmoney:
Metal tokens are usedinsteadofcashin someslotmachinesincasinos.
First they had toqueueup toreceiveasmallplastictoken, which they could thenexchangeforfood.
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- The tokens can beswappedfor Tshirts,keyrings, and otherprizes.
Payment methods
- anti-kickback
- ATM card
- automatic withdrawal
- bad cheque
- baksheesh
- cashback
- chip
- commission
- legal tender
- liquefy
- liquid
- monometallic
- non-cash
- non-monetary
- non-money
- non-paying
- payoff
- per calendar month
- whip-round
tokennoun[C](COMPUTING)
computingspecialized
apieceofdatathat is used torepresentandreplaceanother one, inordertopreventprivateinformationbeingseenby someone who is notallowedto do so:
When wereceivethetransactionsecurely, we tokenize it andsendback a token to themerchantso they never have toseeacardnumberforsettlement.
See also
non-fungible token
- Thesystemthenautomaticallygeneratesanauthenticationtoken andincludesthe token in theoutboundtransaction.
- Theclientsoftwaredecryptsthestoredencryptedtoken.
- This is asecureencryptiondevicefordigitaltokengeneration.
Computer concepts
- 3-D printing
- adaptive learning
- additive manufacturing
- addy
- aeroplane mode
- backup
- capture
- computing
- configuration
- importation
- information age
- information security
- information superhighway
- infosec
- scan
- transcode
- transcoding
- Trojan horse
- tuple
- Turing Machine
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Codes & decoding
tokennoun[C](LANGUAGE)
languagespecialized
aunitoflanguagethat is used in aparticulartext:
Theparticipantsproduced1,564linguistictokens, of which 1,021 (65%) weremarkedforplural.
Types are thedistinctwords in atext,whereastokens are all the words,includingrepeats.
- Asampleoflanguagecannotcontainmoredistinctwords (types) than thetotalwords itcontains(tokens).
- Thelexicaldiversityof atextoritstype-tokenratio(TTR) iscalculatedbydividingthenumberofuniquewords (types) in atextby thetotalnumberof words (tokens).
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- philology
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
See also
by thesametoken
token
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈtəʊ.kən/us/ˈtoʊ.kən/used todescribeanaction, anamount, etc. that isintendedtorepresentsomething or to show that you are doing something,evenif is verysmallor has asmalleffect:
Thetroopsinfrontof us eithersurrenderedorofferedonly token(= not much)resistance.我们前面的军队要么投降，要么只作了象征性的抵抗。
Thecompanywasboughtby thegovernmentfor a token 1p ashare.
disapproving
used to refer to something that is done to inordertoappeartosupport,help, orrepresentaparticulargroupofpeople, but that does nothelpthatgroupofpeoplein alastingorimportantway:
Thetruthis that theyappointno more than a tokennumberof women tomanagerialjobs.事实上他们只装装样子，任命了一些女性担任管理工作。
When just one woman is on a company'sboardshe may bedismissedas the tokenfemale.
Ifeltlike a tokenBlackpersonon thecommittee.
- Heliveswith hisparentsandpaysthem a tokenrentof £50 amonth.
- They were the onlycountrytoargueforeventokenrecognitionof the Balticstates'independence.
- It iseasyto do token things toeducatepeople, but to write abookanddistributeit to so manyschoolsmakes arealimpression.
- Thenewspaperhiresa tokenConservativecolumnistto give theappearanceofbalance.
Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetypal
- archetypically
- besomeoneall overidiom
- betoken
- genre
- instantiate
- mirror
- Mr
- Mrs
- on-brand
- sum
- summation
- symbolic
- symbolize
- symptomatic
- tantamount
- territory
- translate
- trust