identify

identifier, reconnaître

Reconnaître une personne ou une chose et préciser son identité ou sa nature.

En anglais simple : To recognize someone or something and say who or what they are.

• Can you identify this bird?
• The witness identified the driver.
• We have identified the cause of the problem.

Comment l'utiliser : identify someone/something as someone/something (She identified the bird as a robin.)

Synonymes : recognize, name, pinpoint

Expressions courantes : identify a suspect, identify something as, identify the cause

s’identifier

Comprendre les sentiments de quelqu’un parce qu’on a vécu ou ressenti quelque chose de semblable.

En anglais simple : To understand another person’s feelings because you have felt or experienced something similar.

• I identify with her worries.
• He identified with the young hero.
• Can you identify with someone whose life is very different?

Comment l'utiliser : identify with someone/something (Many readers identify with the lonely child in the story.)

Synonymes : relate to, empathize with

Expressions courantes : identify with someone, identify with something

identifier, désigner

Montrer clairement qui est une personne ou ce qu’est une chose.

En anglais simple : To show clearly who someone is or what something is.

• His badge identifies him as a doctor.
• The label identifies the contents of the bottle.
• A red mark identifies the correct entrance.

Comment l'utiliser : identify someone/something by something (The tags identify each animal by number.); identify someone as something (His uniform identifies him as a police officer.)

Synonymes : indicate, distinguish

Expressions courantes : identify someone clearly, identify the owner, identify something by

associer, identifier

Relier étroitement une personne ou une chose à un groupe, une idée ou une qualité.

En anglais simple : To connect someone or something closely with a group, idea, or quality.

• She identifies strongly with the movement.
• The brand is identified with luxury.
• People identified him with the old political system.

Comment l'utiliser : identify someone/something with someone/something (The public identifies the singer with that campaign.); be identified with something (The town is closely identified with shipbuilding.)

Synonymes : associate, link

Expressions courantes : identify someone with, identify with something

assimiler, unifier

Considérer des choses différentes comme identiques ou les réunir en une seule.

En anglais simple : To treat different things as the same, or join them into one.

• The theory identifies mind with matter.
• We should not identify wealth with success.
• The proposal identifies the interests of workers with those of the company.

Comment l'utiliser : identify something with something (The argument identifies happiness with pleasure.)

Synonymes : equate, unite

Contraires : differentiate, separate

Expressions courantes : identify something with, identify the two