Identify
[aɪ'dentɪfaɪ] or [aɪ'dɛntɪfaɪ]
Definition
(verb.) consider to be equal or the same; 'He identified his brother as one of the fugitives'.
(verb.) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; 'She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster'.
(verb.) identify as in botany or biology, for example.
(verb.) consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else; 'He identified with the refugees'.
(verb.) conceive of as united or associated; 'Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.
(v. t.) To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.
(v. i.) To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.
Typist: Virginia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Prove to be identical, prove to be the same, ascertain to be the same.[2]. Make identical, regard as one, consider the same.
v. n. Become identical, be the same.
Typist: Montague
Definition
v.t. to make to be the same: to ascertain or prove to be the same:—pa.p. iden′tified.—adj. Iden′tifiable.—n. Identificā′tion.—Identify one's self with to take an active part in the promotion of.
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Examples
- To identify acting with an aim and intelligent activity is enough to show its value--its function in experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If we are discouraged it is because we tend to identify statecraft with that official government which is merely one of its instruments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Can you identify him as your fellow-passenger on board the packet, or speak to his conversation with your daughter? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But there will be no difficulty, plenty of people can identify them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader exactly to identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Is there no chance person who might identify you in the street? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The world of sense is still depreciated and identified with opinion, though admitted to be a shadow of the true. Plato. The Republic.
- The two brothers crossed the road from a dark corner, and identified me with a single gesture. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I compared it with the money-lender's name and address as recorded in my pocket-book, and identified it at once as the writing of Sergeant Cuff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- HAVE you identified? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Man to be identified by broad nose, and legs like balustrades of bridge. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Mr. Luker has himself personally identified the box, the seal, and the inscription. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He is identified, for the time at least, with the issue; his fate hangs upon the course things are taking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The plan of identifying people by their finger-prints, although at first used only on criminals, is now put to many other uses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nor catching any thieves, nor identifying any house-breakers? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I tried to say that I had never seen the dead man in his lifetime--that there was no hope of identifying him by means of a stranger like me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mrs. Stowe attempted unsuccessfully to have this identifying note removed from the stereotype-plate of the first edition. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I had taken particular notice of him at the time; and I felt sure that I was not mistaken in identifying the fellow on this occasion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mr. Smallweed looks, with greedy eyes, at the little bundle Mr. Bucket produces from a mysterious part of his coat, and identifies it as the same. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have said that the Brotherhood identifies its members by a mark that lasts for life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In that way, he also no longer just gives way to hunger without knowing it, but he notes, or recognizes, or identifies his own state. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To set up an external aim strengthens by reaction the false conception of culture which identifies it with something purely inner. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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