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/aɪdˈɛntəfˌaɪ/ /aɪdˈɛnəfˌaɪ/ Listen

Identify

verb

(past & past part. identified; pres. part. identifying)

Recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something. Synonym: place.

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"

Consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else.

Conceive of as united or associated.

Identify as in botany or biology, for example. Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, key, key out, name.

Consider to be equal or the same.

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"Identify" Quotes from Famous Books

... aroused, are more or less independent of the intrinsic musical beauty. But it cannot be denied that there is an intense emotion which grows with the measure of the beauty of a piece of music, and which music lovers are yet loth to identify with the so-called general aesthetic emotion, or with the "satisfaction of expectation," different varieties of which, in fusion, we have tried to show as the basis of the musical experience. The aesthetic emotion from a picture is not like this, they say, and a mere ...

— The Psychology of Beauty • Ethel D. Puffer

... meadow-sedge, Let us snoop along the edge; Let us pry in hidden nooks, Laden with our nature books, Scaring birds with happy cries, Chloroforming butterflies, Rooting up each woodland plant, Pinning beetle, fly, and ant, So we may identify What we've ...

— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers

... wonder who he is. His name is not Dickson, nor is it Farnsworth. Of course, there is a mystery behind him somewhere, and he has a name which he is concealing. Suppose we take a look through his effects. He had a saddlebag in which there may be something by which we can identify him." ...

— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor

... an evident effort here to identify "Immanuel Osipovitch Davidov" as a modern symbol of Christ, or more properly of Christ's teachings, "Osipovitch" means the "son of Joseph"; "Davidov," ...

— The Created Legend • Feodor Sologub

... materially changed from F of F—B. Clouds and darkness are substituted for starlight, silence for the sound of the wind. The weather here matches Mathilda's mood. Four and a half lines of verse (which I have not been able to identify, though they sound Shelleyan—are they Mary's own?) are omitted: of the ...

— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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