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identify

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

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league

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li??/
  • Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin lig? (I tie).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

  1. A group or association of cooperating members.
    • 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
      And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
  2. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
  3. (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league
  4. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
  5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).
Derived terms
Related terms
  • ally
  • alliance
Descendants
  • ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
  • ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)
Translations

Verb

league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)

  1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lege (league), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (the Gaulish mile), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (league)).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

  1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
    • 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
      Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
  2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
Translations

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
  • Middle English Dictionary, lege

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