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# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[establish]] the [[identity]] of someone or something.
# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[establish]] the [[identity]] of someone or something.
#* {{quote-book|passage=The formal name of a national having domiciliary register shall be '''identified''' by the national identity card;|title=[[S:Enforcement Regulations of the Name Act|Enforcement Regulations of the Name Act]]|year=1953}}
#* {{quote-book|passage=The formal name of a national having domiciliary register shall be '''identified''' by the national identity card;|title=[[S:Enforcement Regulations of the Name Act|Enforcement Regulations of the Name Act]]|year=1953}}
#*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-08-10|volume=408|issue=8848|magazine={{w|The Economist}}
|title=[http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21583277-worlds-biggest-polluter-going-green-it-needs-speed-up-transition-can-china21583270-new-zealands-plan-regulate-designer-drugs-better-trying-ban-them-and-failing-new A new prescription]
|passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to '''identify''' and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
# {{context|transitive|biology|lang=en}} To establish the [[taxonomic]] [[classification]] of an [[organism]].
# {{context|transitive|biology|lang=en}} To establish the [[taxonomic]] [[classification]] of an [[organism]].
#* {{quote-book|passage=A recent biological inventory uncovered 41 species and 2 subspecies of insects new to science and many species not before '''identified''' in the State of Washington.|title=[[S:Proclamation 7319|Proclamation 7319]]|year=2000}}
#* {{quote-book|passage=A recent biological inventory uncovered 41 species and 2 subspecies of insects new to science and many species not before '''identified''' in the State of Washington.|title=[[S:Proclamation 7319|Proclamation 7319]]|year=2000}}
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#* {{quote-book|passage=Now, the vast majority of us '''identify''' with the second group, the one that believes in trusting the wisdom of the people rather than taking power away from them and concentrating it in the other hands.|title=[[S:Presidential Radio Address - 26 February 1983]]|year=1983}}
#* {{quote-book|passage=Now, the vast majority of us '''identify''' with the second group, the one that believes in trusting the wisdom of the people rather than taking power away from them and concentrating it in the other hands.|title=[[S:Presidential Radio Address - 26 February 1983]]|year=1983}}
# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
#* {{quote-magazine
#* {{quote-magazine|year=2010|date=Feb. 6, 2010|magazine=Science Daily
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|title=[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100205122240.htm Youth Who Self-Identify as Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual at Higher Suicide Risk, Say Researchers]
|year=2010
|author=
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|title=Youth Who Self-Identify as Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual at Higher Suicide Risk, Say Researchers
|date=Feb. 6, 2010
|magazine=Science Daily
|url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100205122240.htm
|passage="The main message is that it's the interface between individuals and society that causes students who '''identify''' as gay, lesbian, or bisexual the most distress," said study first author Yue Zhao.
|passage="The main message is that it's the interface between individuals and society that causes students who '''identify''' as gay, lesbian, or bisexual the most distress," said study first author Yue Zhao.
}}
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Revision as of 03:19, 29 September 2013

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) identifier, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin (deprecated template usage) identicus + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Template:term/t.

Pronunciation

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Verb

identify (third-person singular simple present identifies, present participle identifying, simple past and past participle identified)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
  2. (deprecated template usage) (transitive, biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
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  3. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To equate two or more things.
  4. (deprecated template usage) (reflexive) To have a strong affinity (deprecated template usage) with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
    • 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 117:
      The dream is given a new interpretation if in her dream she means not herself but her friend, if she has put herself in the place of her friend, or, as we may say, she has identified [translating Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "identifieirt" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.] herself with her.
  5. (deprecated template usage) (intransitive) To associate oneself with some group.
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  6. (deprecated template usage) (intransitive) To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
  7. (deprecated template usage) (transitive, topology) To map a number of points to one.
  8. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To make to be the same; to unite or combine into one.
    • D. Ramsay
      Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers.
    • Burke
      Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.

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