identify

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) (biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To equate two or more things.
  4. Verb.  (reflexive) To have a strong affinity (term, with) ; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
  5. Verb.  (intransitive) To associate oneself with some group.
  6. Verb.  (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.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) (topology) To map a number of points to one.

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