identifying
Meaning of identifying
verb
- To establish the identity of someone or something.
- To disclose the identity of someone.
The Associated Press will not identify the suspect of the crime because he is a juvenile.
- To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
- To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
- To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
- To associate oneself with some group.
- To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
noun
An act of identification.
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Hyphenation of identifying
iden-ti-fy-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- identifying is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
identifying synonyms
Meaning distinguishing:
Words that rhyme with identifying
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