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Identify vs Correlate - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between identify and correlate

is that identify is to equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one while correlate is to compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.

In intransitive terms the difference between identify and correlate

is that identify is to claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself while correlate is to be related by a correlation.

As a noun correlate is

either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.

identify

English

Verb

  • 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
    • Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers.
  • * Burke
    • Let us identify , let us incorporate ourselves with the people.
  • (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 herself with her.
  • 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 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. }}

    Synonyms

    * to ID

    Related terms

    * identic * identical * identification * identifier * identity * identify with

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    correlate

    English

    Verb

  • To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
  • To be related by a correlation
  • * Tylor
    • Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
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    • As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative

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