IDENTIFY meaning: Recognize and name someone or something

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word identify:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

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identify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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identify: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Identify (album), Identify (song), Identify: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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identify: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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identify: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Art (1 matching dictionary)

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Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To disclose the identity of someone.
▸ verb:  (transitive, biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
▸ verb:  (reflexive) To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To associate oneself with some group; to feel, or believe one feels, the same way.
▸ verb:  (reflexive, with as) To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.

Similar:

describe, distinguish, discover, name, place, key, key out, pinpoint, determine, recognize, more...

Opposite:

disguise, obscure, confuse, overlook, misidentify

Types:

fingerprint, DNA, retina scan, iris scan, voice print, face print, signature, more...

Phrases:

identify with, self identify, I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter, Stop and identify statutes, easy to identify, more...

Colors:

red, blue, green, yellow, orange, more...

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