Dictionary Definition
identify
Verb
1 recognize as being; establish the identity of
someone or something; "She identified the man on the 'wanted'
poster" [syn: place]
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" [syn:
name]
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 identify as in botany or biology, for example
[syn: discover,
key, key out, distinguish, describe, name]
6 consider to be equal or the same; "He
identified his brother as one of the fugitives" [also: identified]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
IPA: aɪˈdɛnt.ɪ.faɪEtymology
From identifier.Verb
- to establish the identity of someone or something
- to establish the taxonomic classification of an organism
- to equate two or more things
- to associate oneself with some group
- To map a number of points to one.
Related terms
Translations
to establish the identity of someone or
something
- Dutch: identificeren
- Finnish: tunnistaa, identifioida
- French: identifier
- German: identifizieren
- Portuguese: identificar
(biology) to establish the taxonomic
classification of an organism
- Dutch: determineren, identificeren
- Finnish: tunnistaa, identifioida
to equate two or more things
- Finnish: samastaa
to associate oneself with some group
- Dutch: zich identificeren met
- Finnish: samastaa, samaistaa, samastua, samaistua
- German: sich identifizieren mit
Extensive Definition
Identification can mean
- Identification (psychoanalysis)
- Recognition of human individuals
- An identity document
- Identification (information)
- Identification (parameter), in statistics and econometrics, how parameters can be inferred from data
- Identification (literature), in Literary criticism
- Identification (biology), working out the name (e. g., genus or species) of an individual organism
- Identification in Burkean rhetoric
- Station identification in radio
See also:
- Identity (disambiguation)
- ID (disambiguation)
identify in German: Bestimmung
identify in French: Identification
identify in Dutch: Identificatie
identify in Polish: Identyfikacja
identify in Russian: Идентификация
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ally,
apply, appraise, argue, assess, associate, baptize, be indicative of, be
significant of, be symptomatic of, bespeak, betoken, bind, bracket, call, catalog, catalogue, categorize, characterize, christen, class, classify, coalesce, combine, connect, connote, correlate, couple, define, denominate, denote, descry, designate, detect, determinate, determine, diagnose, differentiate, dig, discern, disclose, display, distinguish, draw a
parallel, dub, empathize
with, entail, entitle, equate, espy, establish, evaluate, express, factor, find, finger, fuse, gauge, give evidence, give token,
group, have, highlight, hint, home in on, home on, identify
with, indicate,
interrelate,
involve, join, know, know again, label, link, make one, make out, manifest, map, mark, mean, merge, nail, name, nickname, nominate, note, notice, parallel, parallelize, peg, perceive, pick out, pick up,
pinpoint, place, point out, realize, recall knowledge of,
receive, recognize, reidentify, relate, relate to, relativize, reveal, scan, see, select, sense, show, sift, signify, single out, sort, sort out, specify, spot, spy, stand for, style, suggest, sweep, sympathize with, symptomatize, symptomize, synthesize, tag, tell, term, testify, thrash out, tie, title, trigger, tune in, unify, unite, wed, weigh, winnow