Tra từ identify - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

iden·tify AW [identify identifies identified identifying] BrE [aɪˈdentɪfaɪ] NAmE [aɪˈdentɪfaɪ] verb (iden·ti·fies, iden·ti·fy·ing, iden·ti·fied, iden·ti·fied)
1. (also informal ID)to recognize sb/sth and be able to say who or what they are
•~ sb/sth as sb/sth The bodies were identified as those of two suspected drug dealers.
•~ sb/sth She was able to identify her attacker.
•Passengers were asked to identify their own suitcases before they were put on the plane.
•Many of those arrested refused to identify themselves (= would not say who they were).
•First of all we must identify the problem areas.
2. to find or discover sb/sth
•~ sth Scientists have identified a link between diet and cancer.
• As yet they have not identified a buyer for the company.
•~ what, which, etc… They are trying to identify what is wrong with the present system.
3. ~ sb/sth (as sb/sth) to make it possible to recognize who or what sb/sth is
• In many cases, the clothes people wear identify them as belonging to a particular social class.
Derived: ↑identified with somebody ▪ ↑identify somebody with something ▪ ↑identify something with something ▪ ↑identify with somebody ▪ ↑identify yourself with somebody
See also: ↑ID
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘treat as being identical with’): from medieval Latin identificare, from late Latin identitas (from Latin idem ‘same’) + Latin -ficare (from facere ‘make’).

Thesaurus:
identify verb
1. T (not used in the progressive tenses)
•She was able to identify her attacker.
recognize • • know • • name • • pick sb/sth out • • make sb/sth out • • pinpoint • • place • |formal discern • • isolate •
identify/recognize/know sb/sth by sth
identify/recognize/name/pinpoint sb/sth as sb/sth
identify/recognize/know/make out/pinpoint/discern/isolate who/what/how…
2. T
•Scientists have identified a link between diet and cancer.
find • • discover • • establish • |formal determine • • ascertain •
identify/establish/determine/ascertain what/how/when/where/why/whether…
identify/find/discover/establish/determine/ascertain the cause
identify/find/discover/establish a connection

Synonyms:
identify
know • recognize • name • make sb/sth out
These words all mean to be able to see or hear sb/sth and especially to be able to say who or what they are.
identify • to be able to say who or what sb/sth is: ▪ She was able to identify her attacker.
know • to be able to say who or what sth is when you see or hear it because you have seen or heard it before Know is used especially to talk about sounds that seem familiar and when sb recognizes the quality or opportunity that sb/sth represents: ▪ I couldn't see who was speaking, but I knew the voice. ◇ ▪ She knows a bargain when she sees one.
recognize • to know who sb is or what sth is when you see or hear them/it, because you have seen or heard them/it before: ▪ I recognized him as soon as he came in the room.
name • to say the name of sb/sth in order to show that you know who/what they are: ▪ The victim has not yet been named.
make sb/sth out • to manage to see or hear sb/sth that is not very clear: ▪ I could just make out a figure in the darkness.
to identify/know/recognize sb/sth by sth
to identify/recognize/name sb/sth as sb/sth
to identify/know/recognize/make out who/what/how…
to easily/barely/just identify/recognize/make out sb/sth

Example Bank:
•All three structures dated to the third century and were tentatively identified as shrines.
•Business trends are rapidly identified by this system.
•Did you identify all the pictures correctly?
•Great orchestras came to be identified increasingly with German conductors.
•He has stepped up efforts to identify and acquire other small companies.
•I can't identify with men like him.
•I could identify him easily if I saw him again.
•Jaime successfully identified all 45 different species.
•Most students failed to identify the quotation.
•Ms. Wilson was publicly identified as a CIA operative.
•Participants learn to identify different species by their calls.
•She identified strongly with the main character in the play.
•Someone has to formally identify the body.
•The new test will enable us to identify more accurately patients who are most at risk.
•The newspaper declined to identify the source of the allegations.
•The policy is closely identified with the President himself.
•The pressbook did not specifically identify the film's setting.
•The researchers hope to identify ways to improve the treatment.
•The surgeon visually identifies and cuts out the cancerous tissue.
•We have not yet clearly identified the source of the pollution.
•a computer program to automatically identify any query ending with a question mark
•a serial number that uniquely identifies the disk
•one means of identifying the disease in its early stages
•tests that can identify people at risk of cancer
•First of all we must identify the problem areas within the system.
•Many of those arrested refused to identify themselves.
•She was able to positively identify her attacker.