Identify
Pronunciation of Identify
/a͡ɪdˈɛntɪfˌa͡ɪ/, /aɪdˈɛntɪfˌaɪ/, /aɪ_d_ˈɛ_n_t_ɪ_f_ˌaɪ/
Synonyms for identify:
Sense 1
betoken, mark out, alight on, remember, denote, presage, point to, augur, symbolize, analogize, smack of, prefigure.
Sense 2
SEE-IN, empathize, pick up on, characterize, liken, herald, signify, pinpoint, stand for, finger, perceive.
Sense 3
feel, know, surprise, proclaim, indicate, correlate, identification, remark.
Sense 4
recognition, brand, equate, compare, associate.
Sense 5
betray, assimilate, represent, signal, spell, connect, note.
Sense 6
register, relate.
Sense 7
Sense 9
mean.
ascertain
pick up, pick up on.
discover
detect, light upon.
distinguish
tell apart.
find
smell out.
name
name, point to.
Sense 1 (noun)
indicate, signify, represent, proclaim, mean, betray, denote, symbolize, stand for.
Sense 2 (noun)
Sense 3 (noun)
finger, pinpoint.
Sense 4 (noun)
liken, assimilate, equate, compare, analogize.
Sense 5 (noun)
correlate, associate, connect.
Sense 6 (noun)
classify (noun)
know.
identify (noun)
discover, key, name, describe, place, key out.
list (noun)
ascertain (verb)
find out, learn, tell, discover, pick up on, see.
associate (verb)
categorize (verb)
rank.
cognition (verb)
communication (verb)
name.
detect (verb)
smell out, dig up, unmask, catch, note, expose, recognize, observe, reveal, disclose, notice.
discover (verb)
dig up, educe, reveal, disinter, expose, unmask, realize, perceive, Unriddle, discover, locate, breakthrough, hear, light upon, detect, come upon, determine, elicit, disclose, come across, fathom, unravel, solve, unearth, recognize, discern, find.
distinguish (verb)
know, characterize, label, tell apart.
name (verb)
Usage examples for identify:
- These words, which identify truth with love, contain in themselves the profoundest social and personal morality. - "Contemporary Russian Novelists", Serge Persky.
- I guess, though, there ain't nobody living to identify the pieces, so they could get the right arms and heads on the right bodies. - ""And they thought we wouldn't fight"", Floyd Gibbons.
- So I suppose she'll send for me before long to identify them. - "Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College", Jessie Graham Flower.