Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of identifying.
- n. The state of being identified.
- n. Proof or evidence of identity.
- n. Psychology A person's association with or assumption of the qualities, characteristics, or views of another person or group.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of making or proving to be the same; the state of being made or regarded as the same.
- n. The act or process of establishing the identity of something; the act or process of determining what a given thing is, or who a given person is; specifically, in natural history, the determining of the species to which a given specimen belongs; also, the determination thus made.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of identifying, or proving to be the same.
- n. The state of being identified.
- n. A particular instance of identifying something.
- n. A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
- n. A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding or belonging towards somebody or something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
- n. evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
- n. the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established
- n. the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
- n. the act of designating or identifying something
Etymologies
- Regular nominalisation of identify (see -fication) after the post-Classical Latin identificatio; also compare the French identification. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And I don't care what your religion is, an identification card associated with driving priveleges is not an * identification* card if there's no hope of identifying the person in the picture.”
“Although his name identification among conservatives is high, Gingrich placed in the middle of the pack in a Gallup Poll released Monday.”
“Mitch Daniels (Ind.) or Haley Barbour (Miss.) to raise their name identification to Huckabee-like levels.”
“That he consistently takes other historians to task for their identifications (Brooten, Richlin, Williams) underscores that for Halperin identification is still an inferior form of cognition than alterity.”
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
“The last two remaining potential candidates with the name identification and fundraising prowess to join the race at this late date, Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani, have only days to decide whether to jump in as state ballot requirements start to pile up.”
“It also likely benefits Murkowski because her name identification is much higher than either Miller or McAdams.”
The Washington Post: Lisa Murkowski surges in Alaska (or does she?)
“For good readers, word identification is fast, fluent, and automatic – it must be so that their attention can be fully focused on using semantics and syntax to comprehend the text (ibid.).”
Barriers to Reading Comprehension « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
“They may disagree with whether or not this identification is a social good, but still.”
“This was the first demonstration of an effective catalyst, a ferment, in the living organism, and this identification is the more important because it throws light on a process of general significance in the maintenance of life.”
“Of the remaining potential entrants to the field, only Sarah Palin has the name identification, fundraising ability and following to make a go at this late date.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘identification’.
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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POL - elections
absentee ballot, affiliate, allegiance, announcement of c..., ballot, ballot box, ballot initiatives, ballot paper, barnstorming speech, bias, block vote, campaign ad and 930 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
italicise, reference, ISBN, square bracket, running head, printing process, peer review, ASL, retrievable, lexical, publishable, et alia and 188 more...
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Rhetoric: The Harlot of the Arts
Words to do with rhetoric--study of, history of, practice of, theory of
rhetoric, paralepsis, invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery, copia, consubstantiation, trope, colon, tricolon and 56 more...
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ENVI - non-commercial movement of pet...
You can manipulate this list here: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/wordlists/184552
rabies, categorisation, transponder, point of entry, derogation, veterinarian, safety feature, identification, resubmit, vaccinate, pet, immunise and 71 more...
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Writing
immunity, reaching, ingenuity, divinity, affinity, kaleidoscopes, statistics, hope, pictures, linguistics, magenta, mist and 222 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Collagency ✂
Comparing images, cut-up, and mixing meaning.
clusterfuck, fungible, juxtaposition, assemblage, cut, paste, arrangement, theme, symbolism, association, amalgam, represtational and 110 more...
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Eckhart Tolle distinctions
Words from Eckhart Tolle's book 'A new Earth', and various retreats and audio files
pain body, ego, mechanism, inner purpose, outer purpose, presence, attachment, identification, pain, suffering, consciousness, witnessing
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LitCrit Triple Word Score
intertextual, metafiction, structural, seminal, subject, ideological, problematic, gratification, identification, gender, solipsistic, deconstruct and 13 more...
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Teen Drinking
identification, curfew, alcohol, telephone, behavior, attitude, panic, moody, involved, aware, notice, normally and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for identification.
reesetee Ha! Mar 18, 2009
chained_bear Usage here. Mar 18, 2009