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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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"Identify" Quotes from Famous Books

... village was down on the shore. Women and children were running here and there, trying to identify, in the forests of masts, of crossing and criss-crossing cordage, the boats where their own men were. It was the annual excursion into the deserts of the sea, the recurring foray out into danger to snatch bread from the mysteries of the deep, which sometimes gives up its ...

— Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... in the street and brought her in. She could not tell her name, and, with one given to her there, and garbed in the uniform of the place, she was so effectually lost in the crowd that the police alarm failed to identify her. In fact, her people had no little trouble in "proving property," and but for the mother love that had refused to part with a little gingham slip her lost baby had worn, it might have proved impossible. It was the mate of ...

— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

... wine in his veins now. He was burning with impatience to overtake his arrears of knowledge, to see what the world had gone through in his absence. Leaning over the door of the hansom, he read the names of the streets and the signs over the shops, and tried to identify the houses which had been rebuilt and the thoroughfares which had been altered. But the past was the past, and the clock would turn back for no man. These men and women in the streets knew all that had happened. The ...

— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine

... translated literally from Bo[:e]thius, and although we know that Dante had made a special study of Bo[:e]thius, yet we cannot well identify the dottore with this philosopher: for how can we be expected to assume that Francesca was acquainted with these two facts? The reference is probably to Virgil, and ...

— Confessions of a Book-Lover • Maurice Francis Egan

... bed (the office and my bedroom constituted the headquarters of the government of the United States of America at Rome), with a petition to me to request the police to delay the examination until the next day, as he had two friends who would identify him, but who were that day (it was Sunday) at Tivoli for the day. As an escape was impossible, and he was in a nervous trepidation which, it was clear to see, was awful funk, I wrote the note desired; and, before the day was out, ...

— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James

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