Definition of Identify

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Identify

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 same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.

To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.

To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.

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Identify Quotations

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
Chris Rock

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan Watts

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. Nixon

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Tse-Tung

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
Thomas Sowell

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Tennessee Williams

First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.
Mike Krzyzewski

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.
Marilyn vos Savant

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
Bell Hooks

Identify Translations

identify in Dutch is identificeren, vereenzelvigen
identify in French is identifiez, identifions, identifier, identifient
identify in German is identifizieren, identifizieren, identifiziere
identify in Norwegian is identifisere
identify in Portuguese is identifique
identify in Spanish is identificar
identify in Swedish is identifiera

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