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Identify   /aɪdˈɛntəfˌaɪ/  /aɪdˈɛnəfˌaɪ/   Listen
Identify

verb
(past & past part. identified; pres. part. identifying)
1.
Recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something.  Synonym: place.
2.
Give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property.  Synonym: name.  "The almanac identifies the auspicious months"
3.
Consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else.
4.
Conceive of as united or associated.
5.
Identify as in botany or biology, for example.  Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, key, key out, name.
6.
Consider to be equal or the same.



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"Identify" Quotes from Famous Books



... indicated in the last chapter) a reaction against mere sex-indulgence; and, as regards its standard of Morality generally, that, among so many conflicting peoples with their various civic and local customs, it could not well identify itself with any ONE of these but would evolve an inner inspiration of its own which in its best form would be love of the neighbor, regardless of the race, creed or customs of the neighbor, and whose sanction would not reside ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter

... "Ka"(Men-kaf), which Prof. Petrie supposes to have been those of two of the kings of Upper Egypt who reigned before Mena. The king "Sma"("Uniter") is possibly identical with Aha or Narmer, more probably the latter. It is not necessary to detail the process by which Egyptologists have sought to identify these thirteen kings with the successors of Mena in the lists of kings and the Ist and IId Dynasties of Manetho. The work has been very successful, though not perhaps quite so completely accomplished as Prof. Petrie himself inclines to believe. The ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery • L.W. King and H.R. Hall

... it is clear that there must occur a frequent observation of objects which differ so little as to be indistinguishable. Among several creatures which the savage has killed and carried home, it must often happen that some one, which he wished to identify, is so exactly like another that he cannot tell which is which. Thus, then, there originates the notion of equality. The things which among ourselves are called equal—whether lines, angles, weights, ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer

... when he walked in on her, and Ah Sing had to be called from the kitchen to identify him. Mrs. Summerstone screamed a second time. It was when she shook hands with him and lacerated her tender skin in the fisty ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London

... of the river Ganga having been checked in her course near where that youth stood, became very much surprised. This youth was no other than Santanu's son himself. But as Santanu had seen his son only once a few moments after his birth, he had not sufficient recollection to identify that infant with the youth before his eyes. The youth, however, seeing his father, knew him at once, but instead of disclosing himself, he clouded the king's perception by his celestial powers of illusion and disappeared in ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli


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