identify
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identify/ʌɪˈdentɪfʌɪ/
▶verb (identifies, identifying, identified)
- 1 establish the identity of.
- 2 recognize or select by analysis.
- 3 (identify someone/thing with) associate someone or something closely with.
■ (identify with) regard oneself as sharing the same characteristics or thinking as (someone else).
– derivatives
identifiable adjective,
identifiably adverb,
identifier noun.
identifiable adjective,
identifiably adverb,
identifier noun.
– origin C17: from med. L. identificare, from late L. identitas (see identity) + L. -ficare (from facere ‘make’).
'identify' also found in these Oxford entries:
alienation
- analyse
- badge
- call sign
- cholangiography
- code
- colour
- computer dating
- confuse
- cookie
- descriptor
- detect
- diagnose
- diagnostic
- differentiate
- eco-labelling
- elimination diet
- entryphone
- find
- finger
- genetic fingerprinting
- genetic screening
- headhunt
- ident
- identity parade
- it
- ken
- know
- logo
- mark
- marker
- misidentify
- mistake
- mysterious
- nail
- name
- noun
- profile
- profiling
- recognize
- relate
- rogues' gallery
- scan
- specify
- speech recognition
- tag
- test
- that
- this
