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# identify

«identify» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To recognise and say who or what someone or something is** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (identify, identifies, identified, identifying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To recognise and say who or what someone or something is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#m1)

2) To find or pick out something, such as a pattern, a mistake or a problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#m2)

3) identify with: to feel that you understand someone or share their feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school: identify shapes, identify the verb in a sentence, identify a pattern in numbers. In safety, children may be asked to identify a person or a danger. Phrases: identify as, identify with, identify a pattern.

### examples

- And Samekh-Tzadi-Resh-Shin, between the teeth and tongue, lain down and flattened. [note 1: These last two words, שכובה ושטותה, are difficult to identify. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x1)
- The supplemental paragraphs have been printed in modern form by Kalisch ; they identify the several letters of the Heptad more definitely with the planets, days of the week, human attributes and organs of the senses. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x2)
- Can you identify this shape? It has six sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x3)
- Identify the noun in each sentence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x4)
- The police asked the boy to identify the thief. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x5)
- Identify the next number in the pattern 2, 4, 6, 8. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x6)
- Scientists identified a new kind of frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x7)
- I identify with the girl in the story because I am shy too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x8)
- Try to identify the mistake in this sum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x9)
- He was identified by his red cap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x10)
- Afanasief (viii. p. 527) identifies the Sun's Sister with the Dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/#x11)

### note

The y changes to i: identifies, identified. The noun is "identification" (ID card). Identify is about naming or recognising; it does not change numbers in a maths problem.

### In the corpora

- [Some apps identify birds from their songs by matching sounds to recordings they learned from; they can guess the wrong bird.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/12/)
- [Dyslexia is a lasting difficulty with reading and spelling; only a specialist can identify it, never from one mistake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/26/)
- [Pick only berries a grown-up has identified, from above dog height and away from roads, and wash them before eating.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings/4/)
- [Many berries look alike and some are poisonous; pick only berries a grown-up has identified.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings/13/)
- [Geologists identify minerals by hardness, colour, lustre (shine), streak and how they break.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «identify» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/identify/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.