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identify
A	verb
	1	identify
			consider to be equal or the same; "He identified his brother as one of the fugitives"
		Category Tree: remember; retrieve; recall; call back; call up; recollect; think ╚recognize; recognise ╚identify ╚taste ╚type; typecast ╚mistake; misidentify
	2	identify, place
			recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; "She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster"
		Category Tree: determine; set ╚identify, place ╚distinguish; separate; differentiate; secern; secernate; severalize; severalise; tell; tell apart
	3	identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name
			identify as in botany or biology, for example

	4	identify
			consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else; "He identified with the refugees"
		Category Tree: think; cogitate; cerebrate ╚judge ╚think; believe; consider; conceive ╚see; consider; reckon; view; regard ╚identify
	5	identify
			conceive of as united or associated; "Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus"
		Category Tree: think; cogitate; cerebrate ╚associate; tie in; relate; link; colligate; link up; connect ╚identify
	6	name, identify
			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"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚interact ╚communicate; intercommunicate ╚convey; impart ╚mean; intend ╚denote; refer ╚name, identify ╚announce ╚number; list ╚enumerate; recite; itemize; itemise

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