Identified vs Identifier - What's the difference?
identified | identifier |
(identify)
To establish the identity of someone or something.
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(biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
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To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
* D. Ramsay
* Burke
(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:
To associate oneself with some group.
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To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
* {{quote-magazine
, year=2010
, author=
, title=Youth Who Self-Identify as Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual at Higher Suicide Risk, Say Researchers
, date=Feb. 6, 2010
, magazine=Science Daily
Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
* {{quote-book, year=2001, title=The Career Guide to the Horse Industry, author=Theodore A. Landers
, passage=The Identifier personally inspects each horse in each race by verifying the lip tattoo, body color, head and leg markings, scars, and chestnut (night eyes).
* {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track, author=John McEvoy
, passage=The foal papers are documents recording the horse's registration; no horse can start in any race unless his papers are in the hands of the track's identifier .
Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
* {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Ted Dunstone, Neil Yager, title=Biometric System and Data Analysis
, passage=Prehistoric artists used hand-prints in cave paintings, perhaps as as 'signature'. They might be considered the earliest example of a biometric identifier .}}
A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
(programming, operating systems) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
(databases) A primary key.
As a verb identified
is (identify).As a noun identifier is
someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.identified
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(head)identify
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- Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers.
- Let us identify , let us incorporate ourselves with the people.
- 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 herself with her.
citation, passage="The main message is that it's the interface between individuals and society that causes students who identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual the most distress," said study first author Yue Zhao. }}
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