token

Significado

1. Something serving as an expression of something else.
2. A keepsake.
3. A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
4. A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
5. A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
6. A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
7. (obsolete) Evidence, proof; a confirming detail; physical trace, mark, footprint.
8. Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
9. An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
10. An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
11. A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
12. Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
13. A tally.
14. A particular thing to which a concept applies.
15. An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
16. A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
17. A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
18. A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
19. A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
20. A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
21. (obsolete) A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.
22. Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
23. A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
24. A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
25. A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
26. In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
27. A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

Frecuencia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈtəʊkən/

Etimología

From Middle English token, taken, from Old English tācn (“sign”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikn, from Proto-Germanic *taikną, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, instruct, teach”) with Germanic *k rather than *h by Kluge's law. The verb is from Middle English toknen, from Old English tācnian. Cognate with German Zeichen, Dutch teken and Danish tegn.