ID
Multiple Entries:ID Id id -id Eid I'd id.
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ID/ʌɪˈdiː/
▶abbreviation
- 1 Idaho (in official postal use).
- 2 identification or identity.
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Id
▶noun variant spelling of Eid.
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id /ɪd/
▶noun Psychoanalysis the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest. Compare with ego and superego.
– origin 1920s: from L., lit. ‘that’, translating Ger. es.
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-id1
▶suffix forming adjectives such as putrid.
– origin from Fr. -ide from L. -idus.
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-id2
▶suffix
- 1 forming nouns such as pyramid.
- 2 Biology forming names of structural constituents: plastid.
- 3 Botany forming names of plants belonging to a family with a name ending in -idaceae: orchid.
– origin from or suggested by Fr. -ide, via L. -idis from Gk -is, -id-.
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-id3
▶suffix forming nouns.
- 1 Zoology denoting an animal belonging to a family with a name ending in -idae or to a class with a name ending in -ida: arachnid.
- 2 denoting a member of a specified dynasty or family.
- 3 Astronomy denoting a meteor in a shower radiating from a specified constellation: Geminids.
– origin from or suggested by L. -ides (pl. -idae, -ida), from Gk.
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Eid /iːd/ (also Id)
▶noun
- 1 (in full Eid ul-Fitr /ˌiːdʊlˈfɪtrə/) the Muslim festival marking the end of the fast of Ramadan. Also called Lesser Bairam.
- 2 (in full Eid ul-Adha /ˌiːdʊlˈɑːdə/) the festival marking the culmination of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Also called Greater Bairam.
– origin from Arab. ‘īd ‘feast’, from Aramaic.
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I'd/ʌɪd/
▶contraction
- 1 I had.
- 2 I should or I would.
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id./ɪd/
▶abbreviation idem.
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