Definition of: identify

(ī·den′tə·fī) v.t. ·fied, ·fy·ing
1. To determine or establish as a particular person or thing; ascertain the nature or supposed identity of.
2. To consider or treat as the same; make the same or identical: He identifies money with happiness.
3. To serve as a means of recognition or identification of: The teeth identified the skull.
4. To join or associate in interest, action, etc.: usually with with: He identified his name with a well–known charity.
5. Biol. To determine the proper genus, order, etc., of.
6. Psychoanal. To make identification of (oneself) with someone else. [<LL identificare]
—i·den′ti·fi′a·ble adjective
—i·den′ti·fi′er noun