identify
verb
uk
/aɪˈden.tɪ.faɪ/ us
/aɪˈden.t̬ə.faɪ/identify verb (RECOGNIZE)
You need to identify your priorities.
- A robin is easy to identify because of its red breast.
- After she had identified the body of her husband, the police asked her to collect his personal effects.
- Aircraft are required by law to carry special electronic devices, called transponders, so that they can be identified.
- The press has identified several people they think are likely to be appointed to government posts in the autumn.
- How many different trees can you identify?
- ascribe something to something phrasal verb
- ascription
- authenticate
- authentication
- badged
- distinguish
- distinguish between something
- distinguish someone/something from someone/something
- distinguishable
- distinguishably
- identity card
- internal passport
- isolate someone from someone/something
- microchipped
- misidentification
- tell something/someone apart phrasal verb
- traceable
- travel document
- unidentifiable
- unnameable
identify verb (FEEL)
- I identify as straight, but I have had gay experiences.
- I identify as a New Yorker much more than anything else.
- She identifies as a cultural Jew but not as a religious Jew.
- When you aren't comfortable with who you are, regardless of how you identify sexually, it's hard to meet a partner.
- A biracial person who was raised by, let's say, a white mom and a white stepdad might identify differently.
- Nowadays people might identify in fluid and changing ways.