Identify

Definitions: Identify

Identify

Verb

1. Recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; "She identified the man on the "wanted" poster".

2. 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".

3. Consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else; "He identified with the refugees".

4. Conceive of as united or associated; "Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus".

5. As in in botany or biology, for example.

6. Consider to be equal or the same; "He identified his brother as one of the fugitives".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "identify" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Identify

Comparison

Identify, draw a parallel, parallel.

Discovery

Recognize, realize; verify, make certain of, identify.

Discrimination

Verb: discriminate, distinguish, severalize; recognize, match, identify; separate; draw the line, sift; separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; separate the men from the boys; split hairs, draw a fine line, nitpick, quibble.

Identification

Verb: identify, recognize, match, match up; classify; recall, remember; (memory); find similarity (similarity); put in its proper place, put in its proper niche, place in order (arrangement).

Identity

Treat as the same, render the same, identical; identify; recognize the identity of.

Crosswords: Identify

Did you identify with the character you are playing? (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis. Starring Julia Roberts as Anna Scott and Hugh Grant as William Thacker.)

Company leader to identify Baker Team - Rambo, Messner, Ortega, Coletta, Jurgensen, Barry, Krakauer confirm! (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll)

Look, I have to go identify our dead father's body. (Six Feet Under; writing credit: David Starkey)

Roses are red, Violets are Blue, They'll need dental records to identify you. (Valentine; writing credit: Donna Powers)

That's what I asked you to do. Since you now identify with your victims, I suppose it's only right I let you experience their tortures too. (I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream; writing credit: Harlan Ellison;)

I'm trying to identify ("Breathing"; performing artist: Lifehouse)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Field Guide to Stains: How to Identify and Remove Virtually Every Stain Known to Man (reference)

• Grow Your Own Leaders: How to Identify, Develop, and Retain Leadership Talent (reference)

• How to Identify Grasses & Grasslike Plants: Sedges and Rushes (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Identify Yourself (reference)

• Identify Yourself [IMPORT] (reference)

• Order Odonata (Experiments That Identify [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Photo identification work - using transit on triangulation point to identify recognizable features. Lincoln Ganung on knees.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Soil EC Mapping System using electrical conductivity to identify areas of contrasting soil property is being pulled behind truck through ag fields.Credit: Bob Nichols.

NRCS employee, Carl Wacker, identify sites with Farm Land Protection Program coordinator in Dane County, WI.Credit: Bob Nichols.

High water table in developing area in Ankeny, Iowa. A soil survey helps identify characteristics such as water table.Credit: Lynn Betts.

Crystal Poindexter and Mike Gracz identify plant species for an inventory on Native Alaska lands near Homer, AK. [Slide 97CS2946].Credit: Ron Nichols.

Crystal Poindexter and Mike Gracz identify plant species for an inventory on Native Alaska lands near Homer, AK.Credit: USDA.

Donna Tucks reaches for a tag to identify a bale of tobacco that has been sold at auction in the S. Boston, VA.Credit: USDA.

You pack it" interactive exhibit at the NHOTIC. Small wagon with many small boxes used to identify what would be on a wagon from the Oregon Trail.Credit: Unknown.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

In addition to the payments mentioned above Germany shall effect, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Reparation Commission, restitution in cash of cash taken away, seized or sequestrated, and also restitution of animals, objects of every nature and securities taken away, seized or sequestrated, in the cases in which it proves possible to identify them in territory belonging to Germany or her allies. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It seemed as if they so mingled their souls, that if they desired to take them back again, it would have been impossible to identify them.

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Health

Identify new foodborne pathogens. (references)

Identify risk factors for the development of oral complications. (references)

Then the doctor must identify a pattern or cycle to the symptoms. (references)

Business

End user-organizations in the IT industry battle to identify and hire the best workers. (references)

To allocate funding, a system of accreditation is used to identify efficient hospitals. (references)

Foreign firms should identify technically competent sales agents that can offer after-sales service. (references)

Children

New Zealand

In August 2000, the Government instituted an expanded program of information sharing between the courts and health and child protection agencies to identify children at risk of abuse. (references)

Ireland

The Child Care Act places a statutory duty on government health boards to identify and help children who are not receiving adequate care, and it gives the police increased powers to remove children from the family when there is an immediate and serious risk to their health or welfare. (references)

Lithuania

It is believed that several thousand children live "on the street." Approximately 60 local children's rights protection services across the country routinely identify these children and, if they do not have parents or if their parents abused their parental obligations, place them in foster homes or care institutions. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

Previously, witnesses had been unwilling to identify Dara Singh. (references)

Pakistan

No one has claimed responsibility and police officials have yet to identify any suspects. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Journalists Without Borders asked the Ivoirian Government to identify the culprits and bring them to justice to prevent such actions from occurring again. (references)

Economic History

Laos

THE LNCC CAN ALSO HELP IDENTIFY BUSINESS PARTNERS. (references)

Nigeria

Both aim to identify reputable and capable agents/distributors. (references)

Tanzania

The onus is on the preferred bidder to identify its local partners. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

Throughout the year, it was difficult to identify the armed groups responsible for attacks. (references)

Brazil

He survived and was able to identify one of his torturers as a member of the military police. (references)

Switzerland

He is accused of drawing up lists of Tutsis, which the Hutu-dominated military used to identify their victims. (references)

Indigenous People

Chile

Approximately 1.2 million persons identify themselves as indigenous. (references)

Trinidad and Tobago

Members of a very small group in the population identify themselves as descendants of the original Amerindian population of the country. (references)

Peru

Many indigenous persons lack basic documents such as a birth certificate or a voter's registration card that normally would identify them as full citizens and enable them to play an active part in society. (references)

Minorities

Netherlands

Police rarely are able to identify or arrest perpetrators. (references)

Greece

The police investigated but were unable to identify any suspects. (references)

Greece

A small number identify themselves as belonging to a distinct ethnic group and assert their right to "Macedonian" minority status. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

The Committee formed mechanisms to identify and return abductees. (references)

HAITI

Efforts were also made to identify and register all taxpayers through the issuance of a citizen taxpayer ID card. (references)

HONG KONG

In the face of a possible structural deficit, the government has faced pressure to identify new sources of revenue. (references)

Political Rights

Egypt

Muslim Brotherhood members are known as such publicly and openly speak their views, although they do not explicitly identify themselves as members of the organization. (references)

Trade

Venezuela

These stickers must also identify the importer. (references)

Czech Rep

CS Prague works closely with TDA and with Czech and American firms to identify potential projects. (references)

Travel

Jamaica

Those who wish to bring in items temporarily such as software, exhibit material, etc., are required to identify the items at Customs, pay the required duty and General Consumption Tax (as security) and collect a refundable revenue deposit receipt. (references)

Women

Australia

The latest HREOC report (covering July 1, 2000 to June 30) does not specifically identify complaints of sexual harassment, but combines them with complaints of sex discrimination. (references)

Germany

Union contracts typically identify categories of employment in which participants are to be paid less than 100 percent of the wage of a skilled laborer covered by the same contract. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

The CPT is the leading NGO working to identify and eradicate forced labor. (references)

Italy

Individual trade unionists are free to identify with and support political parties of their choosing. (references)

Brazil

Therefore the authorities often have found it difficult to identify and prosecute the owners of farms or businesses that exploit forced labor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "identify": identify oneself ♦ identify oneself with ♦ identify to ♦ identify with ♦ Wald's fundamental identify. Additional references.

Ending with "identify": half-identify, over-identify.

Albanian

identifikoj, vë shenjën e barazimit (equate), quaj të njëjtë, njëjtësoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كشف الهوية أو الشخصية, ‏ميز (characterize, confer distinction upon, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, favor, favour, grant a special privilege, honor, know, label, make a distinction, mark, notice, observe, perceive, prefer, privilege, realize, recognize, segregate, separate, set above others, set apart, set aside, single, single out, stamp), ‏تماثل (community, homogeneity, identification, identity, like, likeness, oneness, resemble, sameness, self identification, similarity, symmetry, sympathize, uniformity), ‏تطابق (agree, coincide, coincidence, concurrence, consistency, correspond, correspondence, fitness, identification, match, oneness, parallelism, self identification, symmetry), ‏عين الهوية, ‏عين النوع, ‏إعتبر الشيئين شئ واحد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

установявам самоличността на, солидализирам се, отъждествявам, определям (allot, allow, assign, characterize, define, design, determine, fix, give, govern, intend, lay, mark down, modify, name, nominate, pigeonhole, pitch, prescribe, qualify, set down, settle, spot, state), забелязвам (cognize, discern, espy, note, notice, observe, perceive, pipe, remark, sight, spot, take in, take notice), идентифицирам. (various references)

Chinese 

辨認 (recognize), 辨认 (identified, identifying). (various references)

Czech

identifikovat, urèit (allocate, appoint, assign, define, design, designate, destine, determine, earmark, fix, intend for, lay down, ordain, reserve, settle, state, will), poznat (experience, know, learn, meet, recognize, taste). (various references)

Danish

identificere. (various references)

Dutch

vereenzelvigen, identificeren (to authenticate). (various references)

Esperanto

identigi. (various references)

Farsi 

یکی کردن (Consolidate, Incorporate, Integrate, Merge, Unify, Unite), تشخیص هویت دادن , شناختن (Know, Notice, Recognize). (various references)

Finnish

identifioida, tunnistaa (recognize), todeta (ascertain, establish, find, note, take note, verify), samastaa (equate). (various references)

French

identifier (to identify). (various references)

German

identifizieren (detect, equate, tagging, to authenticate). (various references)

Greek 

αναγνωρίζω (acknowledge, admit, appreciate, concede, do justice to, know, recognise, recognize). (various references)

Hebrew 

לז�"ות (place, recognize, spot). (various references)

Hungarian

ráismer (recognize, to identify, to recognize sy's tread), megállapít (ascertain, assess, determine, diagnose, diagnosticate, pre-ordain, to allocate, to appoint, to assess, to determine, to diagnose, to lay down general rules, to premise, to quote, to set out, to state, to tax, to time), leleplez (debunk, detect, inaugurate, to debunk, to denounce, to detect, to disclose, to expose, to identify, to lay bare, to show up, to uncloak, to uncover, to unfold, to unmask, to unveil, unmask, unveil), felismer (distinguish, perceive, recognize, to awake to, to identify, to peg, to perceive, to pick out, to recognize), felfed (disclose, locate, pinpoint, reveal, showed, shown, to disclose, to expose, to identify, to lay bare, to see into, to show, to uncloak, to unfold, to untangle, unbosom, unfold), egynek tekint (to identify), azonosnak tekint (to identify), azonosít (to identify, to refer). (various references)

Indonesian

mengenali (know). (various references)

Italian

individuare (detect, individualise, individualize, locate, spot), identificare (be identic, be identical, identify oneself, pick out), riconoscere (acknowledge, admit, concede, detect, discern, know, own, place, realize, recognise, recognize, spot, tell, to recognize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

アイディア商�"� (Ainu, idealist, identification, identification card, identity, identity card, idle capital, idle cost, idle system, idle time, idling, idol, novelty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

アイデンティファイ . (various references)

Korean 

확인하십시�" (Authenticate, Confirm, Verify). (various references)

Manx

cur enney er (apprehend, apprehension, recognize). (various references)

Norwegian

identifisere. (various references)

Papiamen

identifiká. (various references)

Pig Latin

identifyay.(various references)

Portuguese

identificar (placatory, place, recognize). (various references)

Romanian

identifica (detect, recognize, spot). (various references)

Russian 

отождествляться (match), отождествлять (match), опознавать (recognize), идентифицировать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

identifikovati, poistovetiti se, legitimisati (legalise, legalize). (various references)

Spanish

identificar (detect, finger, get on to, recognize, zero in). (various references)

Swedish

identifiera (identifying). (various references)

Thai

ระบุชื่อ. (various references)

Turkish

tanımak (acknowledge, affiliate, be acquainted with, be recognizant of, charter, get to know, Ken, know, legitimatize, legitimize, own, recognize, spot), kimliğini saptamak, desteklemek (advocate, assist, back up, bear out, bear smb. out, bolster, bolster up, brace, buoy, buttress, champion, countenance, encourage, endorse, Favor, favour, fortify, give a leg up, give countenance to, go along with, help forward, hold up, indorse, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, logroll, nourish, patronize, promote, prop, root for, second, shore, sponsor, spoonfeed, stake, stanchion, stand, stand by, start, stick up for, strengthen, subordinate, support, sustain, underpin, uphold), destek vermek (second), bir tutmak, belirlemek (adjust, appoint, assess, assign, condition, decide, define, detect, determine, dictate, establish, limit, note, peg, seal, set, set down, settle, single out, slate, specify, state), aynı saymak. (various references)

Ukranian 

сходитися (congregate, converge, flock), ідентифікувати, розпізнавати (see through), визначати (assign, balance, decree, define, designate, determinate, determine, govern, mete, operate, ordain, order, single, specificate, tell), ототожнювати (equal). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "identify": identifying. (additional references)

Words ending with "identify": misidentify, overidentify, reidentify. (additional references)

Words containing "identify": misidentifying, overidentifying, reidentifying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Identify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: idenitify, idenity, identif, identifi, identifys, identiry, indenterfy, indentify. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: finite, indite, nidify, tineid.

-3 letters: deify, deity, edify, feint, fetid, fiend, fined, indie, nifty, nitid, teiid, teind, tined, tyned.

-4 letters: defi, deft, defy, deni, dent, deny, diet, dine, dint, dite, dyne, edit, fend, find, fine, inti, neif, nide, nidi, nite, tend, tide, tidy, tied, tine, tiny, tyin, tyne, yeti.

-5 letters: den, dey, die, din, dit, dye, eft, end, fed, fen, fet, fey, fid, fie, fin, fit, net, nit, ted, ten, tie, tin, tye, yen, yet, yid, yin.

+1 letter: denitrify.

+2 letters: definitely, infidelity, reidentify.

+3 letters: deficiently, detoxifying, diffidently, identifying, misidentify.

+4 letters: decertifying, definitively, demystifying, denitrifying, devitrifying, identifiably, indefectibly, indefinitely, overidentify.

+5 letters: defensibility, indefatigably, indifferently, refundability, reidentifying.

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