identify

identify (someone or something) by (something)

To use some specific characteristic to recognize someone or something. You'll be able to identify me by my red hair and purple dress. I can identify a plagiarized report by the writing, you know—and this is definitely a plagiarized report.
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identify as (someone or something)

To classify or label someone or oneself as something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "identify" and "as." The guy on the security camera isn't a criminal after all—someone in the next block identified him as one of their neighbors. If you don't identify yourself as a member of this community, I'm going to call the police! Growing up, I always thought I was straight, but now I identify as bisexual.
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identify with

To associate something, someone, or oneself with a particular person, group, thing, or characteristic. A noun or pronoun can be used between "identify" and "with." I identify with the women on my mother's side of the family much more than those on my dad's side. I always identify the smell of pine needles with Christmastime. Because of the way you're dressed, the locals are going to identify you with the rest of the tourists.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

identify (oneself) with someone or something

to classify oneself with someone or something; to relate to someone or something; to see part of oneself represented in someone or something. I identify myself with the others. I identify with the birds and animals of the forest.
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identify someone as someone

 
1. to determine that someone is a certain person. Can you identify Fred as the perpetrator? Fred was identified as the thief.
2. to reveal one's identity or name. Will you identify the man as Tom? The stranger identified himself as a meter reader from the gas company.
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identify someone or something by something

to recognize someone or something because of something. Can you identify your baggage by any special marks? You can identify me by the red carnation in my lapel.
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identify someone or something with someone or something

to associate people and things, in any combination. I tend to identify Wally with big cars. We usually identify green with grass. We tend to identify big cars with greedy people.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

identify with

v.
1. To associate or affiliate someone or something with someone or something else: The villagers did not trust us because they identified us with the foreigners who had looted their village years ago.
2. To understand or share the feelings of someone: I identify with children who have lost their parents because I am an orphan myself.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • identify (someone or something) by (something)
  • identify by
  • recognize (someone or something) by (something)
  • recognize by
  • know (someone or something) for what (they or it) is
  • know one for what one is
  • tell (someone or something) by (something)
  • tell by
  • spot (someone or something) as (something)
  • spot as
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Only companies that have reconciled all accounts and understand the potential misstatements that may exist in nonreconciled accounts can be comfortable that their auditor will not identify significant and material financial misstatements during the auditor's review of the SEC filings.
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Like the "black box" used by the airline industry, the EEM system provides valuable forensic data after an event to help identify the source of a disturbance.
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The utility of the XRF units is believed to lie in the inspection of C&D loads that are difficult to identify visually.
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A surrogate strategy that has emerged to identify common SNPs in the absence of real frequency data is to rely on SNPs identified by two independent discoveries for each of the two alleles (Gabriel et al.
An overview of the environmental genome project
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Lessons learned: COSO, COBiT and other emerging standards for SOX compliance
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The traditional approach usually begins with a survey of the organizational environment to identify all possible sources of threats to records and information.
Two approaches to managing information risks: when managing information risks, is it better to use an event-based or a records and information requirements-based approach? This excerpt from Managing Risks for Records and Information explores these approaches and examines how to choose the one that best fits your organization's needs
For example, because agencies can use data mining for such purposes as to more quickly and effectively identify relationships and similarities between crimes and to forecast future events based on historical behavioral patterns, they can develop investigative leads and effective action plans more rapidly.
Data mining and value-added analysis
If we can successfully combine Oxagen's approach to the understanding of the genetic components of disease in humans, with our ability to rapidly and cost-effectively evaluate a phenotypic disease response, we will have a powerful system to help identify and develop novel compounds with wide applicability."
DANIOLABS/OXAGEN COLLABORATE ON INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
The 2002 Joint Center poll found 34% of African Americans between 18 and 25 identify themselves as Independents.
A shift from the left: study shows blacks drifting from Democratic Party. (Washington Report)
A recent report by the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services found that although nursing homes generally collect an array of information to help them identify problems, many facilities often don't know how to use the data to effect positive change.
The power of the MDS: quality indicators shouldn't be feared--they are a useful resource. (Feature Article)
Now, XML developers are able to quickly and accurately identify differences between XML documents directly from within Altova XMLSPY 5's powerful development environment.
Altova and Versim to simplify XML doc differencing
While senators signed the oath book indicating that they would fairly and impartially judge the case, "Jennings identified several Democrats, including Barbara Boxer and Ted Kennedy, two of the most liberal members of the Senate, without ever mentioning that they are indeed liberal." As Goldberg observes, however, Jennings was careful to identify "conservative" senators.
Bias. (Books in Brief)