identify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French identifier, from Medieval Latin identicus + Latin faciō.
Inflected forms:
form: identifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: identifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: identified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: identified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To establish the identity of someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was hard to identify the shoplifter because the CCTV records didn't have a clear image.
The formal name of a national having domiciliary register shall be identified by the national identity card.
A provision of law may not be construed as requiring a new grant to be awarded to a specified non-Federal Government entity unless that provision of law (1) specifically refers to this subsection; specifically identifies the particular non-Federal Government entity involved; and (3) specifically states that the award to that entity is required by such provision of law in contravention of the policy set forth in subsection (a).
If you have normal insulins with a normal oral glucose tolerance identifying nondiabetes, does it mean that you were never diabetic...
gloss: To disclose the identity of someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Associated Press will not identify the suspect of the crime because he is a juvenile.
gloss: To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A recent biological inventory uncovered 41 species and 2 subspecies of insects new to science and many species not before identified in the State of Washington.
gloss: To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people, and their rulers.
18 February, 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech on Economical Reform
Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.
gloss: To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: Der Traum erhält eine neue Deutung, wenn sie im Traum nicht sich, sondern die Freundin meint, wenn sie sich an die Stelle der Freundin gesetzt oder, wie wir sagen können, sich mit ihr identifiziert hat.
Cash endures because his most well-known songs—“I Walk the Line” and “Ring of Fire” among them—weave deeply personal narratives with which listeners of all stripes can effortlessly identify.
gloss: To associate oneself with some group; to feel, or believe one feels, the same way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Now, the vast majority of us identify with the second group, the one that believes in trusting the wisdom of the people rather than taking power away from them and concentrating it in the other hands.
My lover and I are arguing about time. Specifically how much time I'm devoting to AIDS Action. […] I try not to take her accusations to heart. That is, until she says it. "You're more gay-identified than woman-identified."
gloss: To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: "The main message is that it's the interface between individuals and society that causes students who identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual the most distress," said study first author Yue Zhao.
Synonyms: ID
clock
identify
ken
to make someone
notice
recognize
twig
Antonyms: misken
Related words: identic
identical
identification
identity
associate
Derived words: deidentify
disidentify
hyperidentify
identifiability
identifiable
identifiee
identifier
identifyee
misidentify
nonidentified
nonidentifying
overidentify
photoidentify
preidentified
reidentify
self-identify
underidentified
unidentified
unidentifying
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