Identity vs Identified - What's the difference?
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Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
* 1997 , Hydrothermal Vent Fauna'', in ''Advances in Marine Biology: The Biogeography of the Oceans , page 111:
The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
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A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
Sense of who one is.
(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.
(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.
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As a noun identity
is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.As a verb identified is
(identify).identity
English
(wikipedia identity)Noun
(identities)- This criminal has taken on several identities .
- I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity .
- This nation has a strong identity .
Synonyms
* selfhood * identity functionDerived terms
* additive identity * identity card * identity of indiscernibles * identity theft * law of identity * left identity * mistaken identity * multiplicative identity * personal identity * quasiidentity * right identityExternal links
* *identified
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Verb
(head)identify
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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.
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. }}