Word Meanings - IDENTIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation. Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people

Additional info about word: IDENTIFY

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 same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation. Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers. D. Ramsay. Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people. Burke. 2. To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IDENTIFY)

• Assimilate
• Compare
• liken
• match
• engross
• identify
• incorporate
• absorb
• appropriate
• Authenticate
• Confirm
• settle
• establish
• verify
• substantiate
• Characterize
• Mark
• distinguish
• describe
• particularize
• style
• designate
• individualize
• specify
• Differentiate
• Particularize
• segregate
• disseminate
• fuse
• lump
• mass
• Verify
• Establish
• confirm
• fulfill
• authenticate
• realize
• test
• warrant
• demonstrate

Related words: (words related to IDENTIFY)

• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• COMPARE
  To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• INDIVIDUALIZER
  One who individualizes.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• DEMONSTRATER
  See DEMONSTRATOR
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• ABSORBABILITY
  The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham .
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• WARRANTOR
  One who warrants.
• REALIZE
  Etym: 1. To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project. We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain
• COMPARER
  One who compares.
• SPECIFY
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• CONFIRMEDLY
  With confirmation.
• CONFIRMEE
  One to whom anuthing is confirmed.
• INCORPORATED
  United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• INSTYLE
  To style. Crashaw.
• ENDOSTYLE
  A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
• PREESTABLISH
  To establish beforehand.
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by