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/aɪdˈɛntəfˌaɪ/ /aɪdˈɛnəfˌaɪ/ Listen

verb

Identify v. t. (past & past part. identified; pres. part. identifying)

To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation. "Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers." "Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people."

To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.

Identify v. i.

To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc. (Obs. or R.)

To coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.; to associate oneself in name, goals, or feelings; usually used with with; as, he identified with the grief she felt at her father's death. "An enlightened self-interest, which, when well understood, they tell us will identify with an interest more enlarged and public."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Identify" Quotes from Famous Books

... duly qualified, make out a card, which must be signed by the applicant, stating the land district in which he desires to make homestead entry, and giving such a description of the applicant as will enable the local land officers to thereafter identify him. This card will be at once sealed in a separate envelope, which will bear no other distinguishing label or mark than such as may be necessary to show that it is to go into the drawing for the land ...

— Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. • William McKinley

... five minutes when there was a sound of sleighbells, and a cutter, drawn by a spirited horse, dashed up to the gate. The girls peered through the windows, but in the dark, which had now fully settled down, could not identify the newcomer. A moment later there as a knock at the door, and, on opening it, Walter Mason came in with a rush, accompanied more sedately by an elderly woman with a ...

— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr

... 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 ...

— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers

... years younger than I—we were great friends; we used to take long walks together and I talked to him interminably. I told him what I should have done had I been Alexander, or how I'd have played king in Athens, had I been Alcibiades. As early as I can remember I used to identify myself with every distinguished character I read about, but when I was fifteen or sixteen I noticed with some wonder that I could think of myself as Alcibiades or Sophocles more easily than as Alexander ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

... legitimacy of our government and our cause to craft strong and agile partnerships. Our economic strength will help failing states and assist weak countries in ridding themselves of terrorism. Our technology will help identify and locate terrorist organizations, and our global reach will eliminate them where they hide. And as always, we will rely on the strength of the American people to remain resolute in ...

— National Strategy for Combating Terrorism - February 2003 • United States

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