identify
/ai'dentifai/
Definition
Verb (Transitive):
- To recognize or establish the identity of someone or something: To be able to say who or what a person or thing is.
- To associate or consider something as being the same or equivalent: To regard or treat two different things as identical or united.
- To state or give the name or key characteristics of something: To specify or name something.
Verb (Intransitive, used with 'with'):
- To feel a sense of association or emotional connection: To feel that you share the characteristics, experiences, or feelings of another person or group.
Examples of Usage
Verb (Transitive):
- The witness was able to identify the suspect in the police lineup.
- The study identifies a strong link between diet and health.
- Please identify yourself by showing your passport.
- The guidebook identifies the best restaurants in the city.
Verb (Intransitive, with 'with'):
- Many readers identify with the main character's struggle.
- He found it hard to identify with the political party's new policies.
Advanced Usage
- "to identify oneself as": To state or declare one's own identity, beliefs, or affiliation.
- She identifies herself as an environmental activist.
- "to identify something with something else": To closely associate one thing with another.
- The brand is identified with luxury and quality.
Variants and Related Words
- Identification (n): The act of identifying or the state of being identified; a document that proves who you are.
- You need two forms of identification to open an account.
- Identifiable (adj): Able to be recognized or identified.
- The car was an identifiable model from the 1980s.
- Identifier (n): A person or thing that identifies; a symbol that uniquely identifies something.
- Your username is your unique identifier on the platform.
Synonyms
- Recognize: To know and remember someone or something from past experience.
- Distinguish: To recognize or treat as different.
- Name: To give a name to or specify.
- Associate: To connect someone or something in your mind with someone or something else.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Identify with: (Intransitive) To feel you understand and share someone else's feelings or experiences.
- As a former student, I can identify with the pressure they are under.
- Identify as: (Transitive, often reflexive) To describe oneself as belonging to a particular category or group.
- He identifies as a progressive thinker.
Related Idioms
- Identify the problem: To correctly recognize what is causing a difficulty.
- The first step is to identify the problem before we can find a solution.
- Identify a need: To recognize or point out something that is necessary or lacking.
- The survey helped to identify a need for more public transportation.
Verb
- consider to be equal or the same
- He identified his brother as one of the fugitives
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- conceive of as united or associated
- Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus
- consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else
- He identified with the refugees
- give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- Many senators were named in connection with the scandal
- The almanac identifies the auspicious months
- recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster
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