Id
[ɪd] or ['aɪ'di]
Definition
(noun.) (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity.
(noun.) a card or badge used to identify the bearer; 'you had to show your ID in order to get in'.
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Definition
(n.) A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus or Idus idus) of Europe. A domesticated variety, colored like the goldfish, is called orfe in Germany.
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Examples
- Je ne saurais vous dire 'how;' mais, enfin, les Anglais ont des idées à eux, en amitié, en amour, en tout. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In the previous century Mayow had obtained nitric oxide by treating iron with nitric ac id. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She's bid havid a plate of boiled beef id the bar,' replied Barney. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There were four clocks in the observatory, of which the largest had three wheels, one wheel of pure sol id brass having twelve hundred teeth and a diameter of two cubits. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He observe d the color, the hardness, weight, fracture of minerals, and experienced the joy the youthful mind feels in rap id identification. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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