identify

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To establish the identity of.
2. v. To ascertain the origin, nature, or definitive characteristics of.
3. v. Biology To determine the taxonomic classification of (an organism).
4. v. To consider as identical or united; equate.
5. v. To associate or affiliate (oneself) closely with a person or group.
6. v. To establish an identification with another or others.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make to be the same; unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; treat as having the same use; consider as the same in effect; represent as the same.
2. To determine or establish the identity of; ascertain that something met with is identical with something otherwise known; ascertain what a given thing or who a given person is; specifically, in natural history, to determine to what species a given specimen belongs: as, the child was identified by its clothing; the owner identified his goods.
3. To mark or characterize in such a way as to show what the thing marked is; serve as a means of identification for.
4. To make one's self a part of (an organization, movement, cause, etc.); be conspicuously active in the promotion of: as, he early identified himself with the abolition movement.
5. To become the same; coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To establish the identity of someone or something.
2. v. transitive (biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
3. v. transitive To equate two or more things.
4. v. reflexive To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
5. v. intransitive To associate oneself with some group.
6. v. intransitive To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
7. v. transitive, topology To map a number of points to one.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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.
2. v. To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted.
3. v. Obs. or R. To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.
4. v. To coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.; to associate oneself in name, goals, or feelings; usually used with with.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. identify as in botany or biology, for example
2. v. consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else
3. v. consider to be equal or the same
4. v. give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
5. v. recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
6. v. conceive of as united or associated