indexer

English

Etymology

index +‎ -er.

Noun

indexer (plural indexers)

1. A person or program which creates indexes.
   • 1986 December 7, “Indexer Needed”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 13:

     Our "title index" (list of story titles) is falling behind. If you'd like to come by and help update it, call Mike at GCN.

2. (computing, programming, .NET) A special property of a class allowing objects of the class to be accessed by index as though they were arrays or hash tables.

Anagrams

• reindex

French

Etymology

From index +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

indexer

1. to index (put into an index)

Conjugation

Conjugation of indexer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	indexer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	indexant /ɛ̃.dɛk.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		indexé /ɛ̃.dɛk.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	indexe /ɛ̃.dɛks/	indexes /ɛ̃.dɛks/	indexe /ɛ̃.dɛks/	indexons /ɛ̃.dɛk.sɔ̃/	indexez /ɛ̃.dɛk.se/	indexent /ɛ̃.dɛks/
	imperfect	indexais /ɛ̃.dɛk.sɛ/	indexais /ɛ̃.dɛk.sɛ/	indexait /ɛ̃.dɛk.sɛ/	indexions /ɛ̃.dɛk.sjɔ̃/	indexiez /ɛ̃.dɛk.sje/	indexaient /ɛ̃.dɛk.sɛ/
	past historic2	indexai /ɛ̃.dɛk.se/	indexas /ɛ̃.dɛk.sa/	indexa /ɛ̃.dɛk.sa/	indexâmes /ɛ̃.dɛk.sam/	indexâtes /ɛ̃.dɛk.sat/	indexèrent /ɛ̃.dɛk.sɛʁ/
	future	indexerai /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁe/	indexeras /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁa/	indexera /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁa/	indexerons /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁɔ̃/	indexerez /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁe/	indexeront /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	indexerais /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁɛ/	indexerais /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁɛ/	indexerait /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁɛ/	indexerions /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	indexeriez /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁje/	indexeraient /ɛ̃.dɛk.sə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	indexe /ɛ̃.dɛks/	indexes /ɛ̃.dɛks/	indexe /ɛ̃.dɛks/	indexions /ɛ̃.dɛk.sjɔ̃/	indexiez /ɛ̃.dɛk.sje/	indexent /ɛ̃.dɛks/
	imperfect2	indexasse /ɛ̃.dɛk.sas/	indexasses /ɛ̃.dɛk.sas/	indexât /ɛ̃.dɛk.sa/	indexassions /ɛ̃.dɛk.sa.sjɔ̃/	indexassiez /ɛ̃.dɛk.sa.sje/	indexassent /ɛ̃.dɛk.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	indexe /ɛ̃.dɛks/	—	indexons /ɛ̃.dɛk.sɔ̃/	indexez /ɛ̃.dɛk.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “indexer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.