Identify vs See - What's the difference?
identify | see |
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.
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To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
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# To witness or observe by personal experience.
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To form a mental picture of.
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, title= # (label) To understand.
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, title= # To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
(label) To meet, to visit.
# To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
#* (Bible), 1 (w) xv. 35
# To date frequently.
(label) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
(label) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if'' or ''whether ).
(used in the imperative ) Used to emphasise a proposition.
A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
* Spenser
As a verb identify
is to establish the identity of someone or something.As a noun see is
.identify
English
Verb
- 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.
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Synonyms
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path.
- Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Wings of Desire, passage=It is not just that we see birds as little versions of ourselves. It is also that, at the same time, they stand outside any moral process. They are utterly indifferent. This absolute oblivion on their part, this lack of sharing, is powerful.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
- And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death.
Synonyms
* (perceive with the eyes) behold, descry, espy, observe, view * (understand) follow, get, understandDerived terms
* aftersee * besee * foresee * forsee * insee * missee * outsee * oversee * see a man about a dog * see for * see things * see someone right * see stars * see the light of day * see through * see-through * see with one's own eyes * undersee * unseeSee also
* look * sight * watchEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see .