He is also a vape modifier, or modder, and is doing Clelland a favour: "I'm building him a coil," he says, explaining that the coil atomises the e-liquid.
He then observed that most novelists tend to dislike labels, or indeed any modifier affixed to the word 'novel'novel
He presumably drops the modifier in the case of James Wallace.
A kitchen sink is a noun phrase made up of two nouns, but only one is the head, and the other is a mere modifier: a kitchen sink is a kind of sink, not a kind of kitchen.
For example, a noun-phrase will typically consist of a noun preceded by a modifier, such as an article and possibly also an adjective.
The linguist's term relevant here is "head": in the case of "gay American", we are talking about a noun phrase with the head noun "American" and the by-the-by modifier "gay".
About the same time as the uses of X-rays were first being applied to medicine, radium was discovered, and also the importance of the time factor as a modifier of the reaction of tissue to radiation was established.
A 20th-century scholarly investigation revealed him as essentially a collector and extremely talented modifier of already existing styles, notably Rococo, which is characteristically used in Chippendale's many designs for mahogany chairs with intricately pierced slats and for elaborately carved case furniture.
In the resulting polymer chain the acrylate repeating units have the following structure: The dissolved or dispersed polymer can be further processed for use as a fibre modifier in textile manufacture, as a bonding agent in adhesives, or as a film-forming component in acrylic paints.
Before the discovery of treatment in the 1920s, the modifier pernicious, although something of a misnomer today, was appropriate, since the disease was usually fatal.
A screw is a usually circular cylindrical member with a continuous helical rib, used either as a fastener or as a force and motion modifier.
