Identify

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To establish or recognize the identity of; ascertain as a certain person or thing.
  • intransitive verb. To determine the taxonomic classification of (an organism).
  • intransitive verb. To ascertain as having a certain characteristic or feature.
  • intransitive verb. To consider as identical or united; equate.
  • intransitive verb. To associate or affiliate closely with.
  • intransitive verb. To consider oneself as sharing certain characteristics or attitudes as another.
  • intransitive verb. To associate oneself with or admire something, such as a set of ideas.
  • intransitive verb. To self-identify.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make to be the same; unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; treat as having the same use; consider as the same in effect; represent as the same.
  • To determine or establish the identity of; ascertain that something met with is identical with something otherwise known; ascertain what a given thing or who a given person is; specifically, in natural history, to determine to what species a given specimen belongs: as, the child was identified by its clothing; the owner identified his goods.
  • To mark or characterize in such a way as to show what the thing marked is; serve as a means of identification for.
  • To make one's self a part of (an organization, movement, cause, etc.); be conspicuously active in the promotion of: as, he early identified himself with the abolition movement.
  • To become the same; coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted.
  • intransitive verb. To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.
  • intransitive verb. To coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.; to associate oneself in name, goals, or feelings; usually used with with.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To establish the identity of someone or something.
  • verb. (biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
  • verb. To equate two or more things.
  • verb. To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
  • verb. To associate oneself with some group.
  • verb. To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
  • verb. To map a number of points to one.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. identify as in botany or biology, for example
  • verb. consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else
  • verb. consider to be equal or the same
  • verb. give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
  • verb. recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
  • verb. conceive of as united or associated
  • Word Usage
    "First of all, I entirely agree with Officer and a Lady when she writes that police officers are members of society and perhaps part of the problem that I have tried to identify is that both the police and civilians can lose sight of this important feature of our policing system and the philosophy of consent which always used to underpin it."
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