ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsIidentify
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identify
Meaning: to determine what someone or something is
identify in a sentence
How identify is used in real sentences:
The guide identified the bird by its bright yellow wings.
By checking the tracks, Rosa identified the animal as a raccoon.
“At registration, nurses identified each volunteer by matching a name to a private code.”
— from the passage Testing a New Shield
Synonyms for identify
Other words for identify — name, recognize and determine — carry the same meaning.
- name
- recognize
- determine
Antonyms of identify
Words that mean the opposite of identify:
- confuse
- misidentify
Where it comes from
From Latin identitas 'sameness' and facere 'to make'
Memory hook
An ID tag helps identify whose bag it is.