identify
/aɪˈdɛn.(t)ə.faɪ/ verbe B2En français : identifier, s'identifier à
- To establish the identity of someone or something. · It was hard to identify the shoplifter because the CCTV records didn't have a clear image.
- To disclose the identity of someone. · The Associated Press will not identify the suspect of the crime because he is a juvenile.
- To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
- To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one. · 18 February, 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech on Economical Reform Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.
- To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
- To associate oneself with some group; to feel, or believe one feels, the same way.
- To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
He/she/it identifies · Prétérit identified · Participe passé identified · Forme en -ing identifying
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Dans la bibliothèque
“But the paper nowhere identifies this Fernand with your father.”
Jonas Oldacre had received a late visitor in his bedroom upon that night, and the stick found has been identified as the property of this person, who is a young London solicitor named John Hector McFarlane, junior partner of Graham and McFarlane, of 426, Gresham Buildings, E.
He rushed out into the road, but, although several passers-by declared that they had noticed a man run out of the shop, he could neither see anyone nor could he find any means of identifying the rascal.
“The most practical way of getting at it, in my opinion, is to identify the dead man.
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