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 →

2) To find or pick out something, such as a pattern, a mistake or a problem. tree →

3) identify with: to feel that you understand someone or share their feelings. tree →

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 →
• 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 →
• Can you identify this shape? It has six sides. tree →
• Identify the noun in each sentence. tree →
• The police asked the boy to identify the thief. tree →
• Identify the next number in the pattern 2, 4, 6, 8. tree →
• Scientists identified a new kind of frog. tree →
• I identify with the girl in the story because I am shy too. tree →
• Try to identify the mistake in this sum. tree →
• He was identified by his red cap. tree →
• Afanasief (viii. p. 527) identifies the Sun's Sister with the Dawn. tree →

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.
• Dyslexia is a lasting difficulty with reading and spelling; only a specialist can identify it, never from one mistake.
• Pick only berries a grown-up has identified, from above dog height and away from roads, and wash them before eating.
• Many berries look alike and some are poisonous; pick only berries a grown-up has identified.
• Geologists identify minerals by hardness, colour, lustre (shine), streak and how they break.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «identify» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.