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identify
[ ahy-den-tuh-fahy, ih-den- ]
verb (used with object)
- to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity none of:
to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
Synonyms: , , ,
- to serve as a means of identification none for:
His gruff voice quickly identified him.
- to make, represent to be, or regard or treat as the same or identical:
They identified Jones with the progress of the company.
- to associate in name, feeling, interest, action, etc. (usually followed by with ):
He preferred not to identify himself with that group.
- Biology. to determine to what group (a given specimen) belongs.
- Psychology. to associate (one or oneself ) with another person or a group of persons by identification none.
verb (used without object)
- to associate oneself in feeling, interest, action, etc., with a specified group or belief system (usually followed by as or with ):
He identifies as bisexual. She identifies with feminism. My family identifies Hispanic.
- to experience psychological identification:
The audience identified with the play's characters.
identify
/ ɪˈɛԳɪˌڲɪ /
verb
- to prove or recognize as being a certain person or thing; determine the identity of
- to consider as the same or equivalent
- also introften foll bywith to consider (oneself) as similar to another
- to determine the taxonomic classification of (a plant or animal)
- intrusually foll bywith psychol to engage in identification
Derived Forms
- ˈԳپˌھ, adjective
- ˈԳپˌھ, adverb
Other yvlogs From
- ·t·ھa· adjective
- ·t·ھa·i·ٲ ·t·ھa··ness noun
- ·t·ھe noun
- v··t·ڲ verb overidentified overidentifying
- i·t·ڲ verb (used with object) preidentified preidentifying
- i·t·ڲ verb (used with object) reidentified reidentifying
- un·t·ھa· adjective
- ܲi·t·ھa· adverb
- ܲi·t·ھ adjective
- ܲi·t·ڲiԲ adjective
- ɱ-·t·ھ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of identify1
Example Sentences
Investigators with the medical examiner’s office are now working to identify the remains.
I asked his committee staff to identify any such reference, but haven’t heard back.
Outside the Walmart on Talbert Avenue, a Huntington Beach resident who identified herself only as Mary said she supports the tariffs even if that means an increase in prices.
The project is expected to especially improve transit access for disadvantaged communities and a high number of residents who identify as Black, Indigenous and people of color, according to Metro.
It helped the Trump team make up for Kamala Harris’s mammoth financial advantage and narrow its dollars and focus on the roughly 14 percent of battleground-state voters it had identified as swayable.
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