· the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
Synonym(s): form, word_form, signifier
Hypernym(s): word
· a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system
Hypernym(s): information