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{
"term": "identify",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "identify",
"heSheIt": "identifies"
},
"pastSimple": "identified",
"pastParticiple": "identified",
"ingForm": "identifying"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to recognize somebody/something and be able to say who or what they are",
"sensetop": "identify somebody/somethingidentify yourselfidentify somebody/something as somebody/somethingidentify somebody/something by something",
"labels": "informal",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was able to identify her attacker.",
"contextForm": "identify somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "Passengers were asked to identify their own suitcases before they were put on the plane."
},
{
"text": "Many of those arrested refused to identify themselves *(= would not say who they were)*.",
"contextForm": "identify yourself"
},
{
"text": "The bodies were identified as those of two suspected terrorists.",
"contextForm": "identify somebody/something as somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "two species of waterbirds that can be identified by their distinctive beaks",
"contextForm": "identify somebody/something by something"
},
{
"text": "All three structures dated to the third century and were tentatively identified as shrines."
},
{
"text": "Did you identify all the pictures correctly?"
},
{
"text": "I could identify him easily if I saw him again."
},
{
"text": "Jaime successfully identified all 45 different species."
},
{
"text": "Most students failed to identify the quotation."
},
{
"text": "Ms. Wilson was publicly identified as a CIA operative."
},
{
"text": "The newspaper declined to identify the source of the allegations."
}
],
"topics": ["Crime and punishment"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["closely", "clearly", "increasingly"],
"verb + identify": ["be able to", "be unable to", "can"],
"phrases": [
"efforts to identify somebody/something",
"a means of identifying somebody/something",
"a way of identifying somebody/something"
],
"verb + identify with": ["can"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to find or discover somebody/something",
"sensetop": "identify somebody/somethingidentify what, which, etc…",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "First of all we must identify the problem areas.",
"contextForm": "identify somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "Scientists have identified the gene responsible for the disease."
},
{
"text": "As yet they have not identified a buyer for the company."
},
{
"text": "to identify a need/factor/source/cause"
},
{
"text": "They are trying to identify what is wrong with the present system.",
"contextForm": "identify what, which, etc…"
},
{
"text": "Business trends are rapidly identified by this system."
},
{
"text": "He has stepped up efforts to identify and acquire other small companies."
},
{
"text": "The new test will enable us to identify more accurately patients who are most at risk."
},
{
"text": "The researchers hope to identify ways to improve the treatment."
},
{
"text": "a computer program to automatically identify any query ending with a question mark"
},
{
"text": "We have not yet clearly identified the source of the pollution."
},
{
"text": "Scientists have identified a link between diet and cancer."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["closely", "clearly", "increasingly"],
"verb + identify": ["be able to", "be unable to", "can"],
"phrases": [
"efforts to identify somebody/something",
"a means of identifying somebody/something",
"a way of identifying somebody/something"
],
"verb + identify with": ["can"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to make it possible to recognize who or what somebody/something is",
"sensetop": "identify somebody/something (as somebody/something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "In many cases, the clothes people wear identify them as belonging to a particular social class."
},
{
"text": "a serial number that uniquely identifies the disk"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/aɪˈdentɪfaɪ/",
"audio": "id/identify/identify__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/aɪˈdentɪfaɪz/",
"audio": "id/identify/identifies__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/aɪˈdentɪfaɪd/",
"audio": "id/identify/identified__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/aɪˈdentɪfaɪɪŋ/",
"audio": "id/identify/identifying__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/aɪˈdentɪfaɪ/",
"audio": "id/identify/identify__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/aɪˈdentɪfaɪz/",
"audio": "id/identify/identifies__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/aɪˈdentɪfaɪd/",
"audio": "id/identify/identified__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/aɪˈdentɪfaɪɪŋ/",
"audio": "id/identify/identifying__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "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’)."
}