different between identify vs determinate

English

Etymology

From French identifier, from Medieval Latin identicus + Latin faci?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??d?n.t?.fa?/, /??d?n.t?.fa?/
• Hyphenation: iden?ti?fy

Verb

identify (third-person singular simple present identifies, present participle identifying, simple past and past participle identified)

1. (transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
2. (transitive) To disclose the identity of someone.

3. (transitive, biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
4. (transitive) To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
   • 1809, David Ramsay, History of South Carolina

     Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers.

   • 18 February, 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech on Economical Reform

     Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.

5. (reflexive) To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
   • 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 117:

     The dream is given a new interpretation if in her dream she means not herself but her friend, if she has put herself in the place of her friend, or, as we may say, she has identified [transl. identifiziert] herself with her. (Der Traum erhält eine neue Deutung, wenn sie im Traum nicht sich, sondern die Freundin meint, wenn sie sich an die Stelle der Freundin gesetzt oder, wie wir sagen können, sich mit ihr identifiziert hat.)

   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 29

     Cash endures because his most well-known songs—“I Walk the Line” and “Ring of Fire” among them—weave deeply personal narratives with which listeners of all stripes can effortlessly identify.

6. (intransitive) To associate oneself with some group.
7. (intransitive) To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.

Synonyms

• to ID

Related terms

• identic
• identical
• identification
• identifier
• identifyee
• identity
• identify with

Translations

Further reading

• identify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• identify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• identify at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Pronunciation

• (adjective, noun) (UK) IPA^(key): /d??t??m?n?t/
• (verb) (UK) IPA^(key): /d??t??m?ne?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle English determinate, determynat, determinat, from Latin d?termin?tus, perfect passive participle of d?termin? (“I limit, set bounds”).

Adjective

determinate (not comparable)

1. Distinct, clearly defined. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1668, John Dryden, Essay of Dramatick Poesie

     Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 122, [1]

     […] on account of his responsibility to Norman and Marigold, and on account of his now determinate age, he considered himself ineligible for more dangerous service.

2. Fixed, set, unvarying. [from 16th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts II:

     hym have ye taken by the hondes of unrightewes persones, after he was delivered by the determinat counsell and foreknowledge of God, and have crucified and slayne hym [...].

   • 1796–7, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman, Oxford 2009, p. 107:

     [S]he watched impatiently for the dawn of day, with that determinate purpose which generally insures success.

3. (biology) Of growth: ending once a genetically predetermined structure has formed.
4. Conclusive; decisive; positive.
5. (obsolete) Determined or resolved upon.
6. Of determined purpose; resolute.

   • More determinate to do than skilfull how to do.

Antonyms

• (limited): indeterminate, nondeterminate
• (biology): indeterminate

Derived terms

• determinateness

Related terms

• determinacy
• determination
• determine
• deterministic

Translations

Noun

determinate (plural determinates)

1. (philosophy) A single state of a particular determinable attribute.

Etymology 2

From Middle English determinaten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

determinate (third-person singular simple present determinates, present participle determinating, simple past and past participle determinated)

1. (obsolete) To bring to an end; to determine.

Esperanto

Adverb

determinate

1. present adverbial passive participle of determini

Italian

Adjective

determinate f pl

1. feminine plural of determinato

Anagrams

• demeritante

Latin

Verb

d?termin?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?termin?