to identify
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- verb
- /aɪˈdɛntɪˌfaɪ/
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identificarse con
- Overall, students who identified with the university demonstrated a sense of mission and responsibility.
- identify with the community
- identify with the university
- self-identify
And what is it in me that that identifies with the story?
- And what is it in me that that identifies with the story?
- And more and more young people are identifying in new and unique ways.
- There is something that people strangely identify with, even kids.
- It's like Whitman is identifying with that songbird.
- I felt like I can identify with these guys.
- It is the way you identify yourself in this business.
- And it doesn't arouse fear because we don't identify with the really bad person.
- It's funny because I identify as self-taught.
- We we got I've got someone who identifies as an owl, right?
- So surprises me to see that there are gay people who identify as conservative.
- For example, I host more, so I really identify myself as a host.
- I think the issue is that you, you right now, you're identifying too much with all of this.
Examples
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People self identify with their labels.
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After hearing her story, I could truly identify with her feelings of loss.
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So I can identify with this group now.
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I felt like I can identify with these guys.
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Let them identify with something big.
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And so I'm thinking some of you may identify with my story.
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It's funny because I identify as self-taught.
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Other women expressed reluctance to identify as a student for different reasons.
Academic text (2011) -
Books offer GLBTQ teens characters with which to identify and a chance to feel less alienated from society.
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I wasn't raised in the Caribbean the way he was, so I just identify with the islanders.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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To understand and share the feelings of someone
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Morphology
identify = identity (semi-transparent) = ident + ify
The sense 'identify with' extends the basic notion of identity to empathy/association, which is an extended, figurative meaning rather than a direct 'establish identity' reading.
Etymology
The word identify comes from the Latin root idem 'same' and is the source of identity. A helpful way to remember 'identify with' is to think 'feel the same as', which is why it means to feel close to or like another person or group.