identify

identify: verb

ADVERB

▪ accurately, correctly, rightly

▪ The new test will enable us to identify more accurately patients who are most at risk.

▪ Did you identify all the pictures correctly?

▪ falsely, incorrectly, mistakenly, wrongly

▪ positively

▪ clearly, unambiguously, unequivocally, uniquely

▪ We have not yet clearly identified the source of the pollution.

▪ a serial number that uniquely identifies the disk

▪ formally

▪ Someone has to formally identify the body.

▪ easily, readily

▪ I could identify him easily if I saw him again.

▪ quickly, rapidly

▪ Business trends are rapidly identified by this system.

▪ tentatively

▪ All three structures dated to the third century and were tentatively identified as shrines.

▪ reliably

▪ properly

▪ successfully

▪ Jaime successfully identified all 45 different species.

▪ automatically

▪ a computer program to automatically identify any query ending with a question mark

▪ explicitly, specifically

▪ The pressbook did not specifically identify the film's setting.

▪ publicly

▪ Ms. Wilson was publicly identified as a CIA operative.

▪ initially, originally

▪ visually

▪ The surgeon visually identifies and cuts out the cancerous tissue.

VERB + IDENTIFY

▪ be able to, be unable to, can, manage to

▪ tests that can identify people at risk of cancer

▪ be easy to, be possible to

▪ be difficult to, struggle to

▪ be necessary to, need to

▪ attempt to, endeavour/endeavor to, seek to, strive to, try to

▪ hope to

▪ The researchers hope to identify ways to improve the treatment.

▪ learn to

▪ Participants learn to identify different species by their calls.

▪ allow sb to, be used to, enable sb to, help to, serve to

▪ decline to, refuse to

▪ The newspaper declined to identify the source of the allegations.

▪ fail to

▪ Most students failed to identify the quotation.

PHRASES

▪ efforts to identify sb/sth

▪ He has stepped up efforts to identify and acquire other small companies.

▪ a means of identifying sb/sth, a way of identifying sb/sth, a way to identify sb/sth

▪ one means of identifying the disease in its early stages

PHRASAL VERBS

identify with sb

ADVERB

▪ closely, completely, fully, strongly

▪ She identified strongly with the main character in the play.

▪ readily

VERB + IDENTIFY WITH

▪ can

▪ I can't identify with men like him.

identify sb with sth

ADVERB

▪ closely

▪ The policy is closely identified with the President himself.

▪ clearly

▪ increasingly

▪ Great orchestras came to be identified increasingly with German conductors.

Identify is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑report, ↑research, ↑researcher, ↑scientist, ↑study, ↑survey, ↑witness

Identify is used with these nouns as the object: ↑area, ↑barrier, ↑category, ↑cause, ↑characteristic, ↑compound, ↑culprit, ↑danger, ↑defect, ↑deficiency, ↑disability, ↑error, ↑extent, ↑factor, ↑failing, ↑fault, ↑flaw, ↑gap, ↑gene, ↑killer, ↑limitation, ↑link, ↑location, ↑murderer, ↑need, ↑niche, ↑objective, ↑pattern, ↑priority, ↑problem, ↑remains, ↑requirement, ↑risk, ↑role, ↑saving, ↑shortcoming, ↑site, ↑source, ↑strain, ↑strength, ↑suspect, ↑symptom, ↑target, ↑theme, ↑trait, ↑trend, ↑type, ↑victim, ↑virus, ↑vulnerability, ↑way, ↑weakness

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Synonyms:

Prove to be identical, prove to be the same, ascertain to be the same / Make identical, regard as one, consider the same, take for identical, confound, Become identical, be the same, Sameness

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identify — iden·ti·fy vt fied, fy·ing 1: to consider as united or associated (as in interests or principles) can ask leading questions of a witness who is identified with an adverse party 2: to establish the identity of identify ing the suspect … Law dictionary
identify — identify, incorporate, embody, assimilate are comparable when they mean to bring (one or more things) into union with another thing. Identify involves the idea of a union of things that are or are thought of as identical, or the same; it may… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
identify — UK US /aɪˈdentɪfaɪ/ verb [T] ► to find and be able to describe someone or something: identify what/which/who »To create an effective advertising campaign you must first identify who your target market is. »A good business recovery service should… … Financial and business terms
Identify — I*den ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Identified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Identifying}.] [Cf. F. identifier. See {Identity}, and { fy}.] 1. 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
identify — [ī den′tə fī΄] vt. identified, identifying [LL identificare: see IDENTITY & FY] 1. to make identical; consider or treat as the same [to identify one s interests with another s] 2. to recognize as being or show to be the very person or thing known … English World dictionary
identify — ► VERB (identifies, identified) 1) establish the identity of. 2) recognize or select by analysis. 3) (identify with) regard oneself as sharing the same characteristics or thinking as (someone else). 4) (identify with) associate (someone or… … English terms dictionary
Identify — I*den ti*fy, v. i. 1. To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc. [Obs. or R.] 2. To coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.; to associate oneself in name, goals, or feelings; usually used with with; as, he… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
identify — (v.) 1640s, regard as the same, from Fr. identifier, from identité (see IDENTITY (Cf. identity)). Sense of recognize first recorded 1769. Meaning make one (with), associate (oneself) is from 1780. Sense of serve as means of identification is… … Etymology dictionary
identify — [v] recognize; label analyze, button down*, card, catalog, classify, describe, determinate, determine, diagnose, diagnosticate, distinguish, establish, find, make out, name, peg*, pick out, pinpoint, place, put one’s finger on*, select, separate … New thesaurus
identify — [[t]aɪde̱ntɪfaɪ[/t]] ♦♦ identifies, identifying, identified 1) VERB If you can identify someone or something, you are able to recognize them or distinguish them from others. [V n] There are a number of distinguishing characteristics by which you… … English dictionary

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