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单词 identify
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
i•den•ti•fy /aɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪ, ɪˈdɛn-/USA pronunciation   v., -fied, -fy•ing. 
  1. to prove or verify the identity of:[+ object]Can you identify the body?
  2. to serve as a means of identification for:[+ object]Her birthmark identifies her.
  3. to associate or connect closely:[+ object + with + object]The voters identified the vice-president with the old regime.
  4. Psychologyto associate (one or oneself ) with another person or a group by identification: [+ oneself + with + object]The audience identified itself with the main character.[+ with + object]The audience could identify with the main character.
  5. Biology[ + obj] to notice the importance of (some facts):The paper identifies three important factors in economic depressions.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
i•den•ti•fy  (ī dentə fī′, i den-),USA pronunciation v., -fied, -fy•ing. 
v.t. 
  1. to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing;
    verify the identity of:to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
  2. to serve as a means of identification for:His gruff voice quickly identified him.
  3. to make, represent to be, or regard or treat as the same or identical:They identified Jones with the progress of the company.
  4. to associate in name, feeling, interest, action, etc. (usually fol. by with):He preferred not to identify himself with that group.
  5. Biologyto determine to what group (a given specimen) belongs.
  6. Psychologyto associate (one or oneself ) with another person or a group of persons by identification.

v.i. 
  1. Psychologyto experience psychological identification:The audience identified with the play's characters.
  • Medieval Latin identificāre, equivalent. to identi(tās) identity + -ficāre -fy
  • 1635–45
i•denti•fi′a•ble, adj. 
i•den′ti•fi′a•bili•ty, i•denti•fi′a•ble•ness, n. 
i•denti•fi′er, n. 
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged distinguish, place, know, determine.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
identify /aɪˈdɛntɪˌfaɪ/ vb ( -fies, -fying, -fied)(mainly tr)
  1. to prove or recognize as being a certain person or thing; determine the identity of
  2. to consider as the same or equivalent
  3. (also intr) often followed by with: to consider (oneself) as similar to another
  4. to determine the taxonomic classification of (a plant or animal)
  5. (intransitive) usually followed by with: to engage in identification

iˈdentiˌfiable adj
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