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Traducción de identify en Español:

identify

identificar, v.

Pronunciación /aɪˈdɛn(t)əˌfaɪ/ /ʌɪˈdɛntɪfʌɪ/

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verbo transitivo identifies, identifying, identified

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    • 1.1

      (person/ship/species) identificar
      (body) identificar
      (body) reconocer
      he was identified as a member of the gang — se lo identificó como miembro de la banda
      • Social workers used these indicators to identify a local family as satanic abusers.
      • Pupils will learn how to identify plants and explore the ways that seeds can be dispersed.
      • It also helped in identifying them; learning how they behaved, what they ate and so on.
      • The problem is and has always been the difficulty in actually identifying a young person's age.
      • The images captured could also be useful in identifying people involved in other crimes.
      • He appealed to the public to help in identifying people in the community who are supplying drugs.
      • Scientists now hope research into the gene will enable them to identify people most at risk.
      • We are also working with the other school to identify this person and solve the problem.
      • On this occasion we were able to identify a couple of people and made an arrest the next day.
      • The girl's mother had to listen to the tape to identify the voice of her daughter.
      • Under the scheme, face, iris and fingerprint scans will be used to identify people.
      • She did not know the name of the person at the bar, but could only identify the person as a male.
      • By a dozen unquestionable marks he identified the girl he had jested with the day before.
      • The defendant was identified as the person who had broken the window and he was arrested.
      • It is understood the delay lies in formally identifying the remains.
      • Last week, he finally buried his niece, after a delay in identifying her disfigured body.
      • He said that at the moment the head of a household filled in a postal registration form identifying all voters in the property.
      • The banks on the list will be exempt from identifying each individual client.
      • If we do decide to seek further clarification, then we will do so without identifying you in any shape or form whatsoever.
      • Quickly identifying the venue, I politely greet the doorman, before signing in the guest book.

    • 1.2(ascertain)

      identificar
      they failed to identify the problem — no lograron identificar el problema
      • By watching the workings of our own mind we can learn how to identify these delusions.
      • Before we can identify any turning points, it is necessary to establish a starting point.
      • The International Labour Organisation identifies the following factors that indicate forced labour.
      • Police are also examining his personal relationships to identify any reason for a grudge.
      • There will be a prize for the first person to correctly identify my rash statement.
      • Now we are using the workshops to identify young people who can appear in the film.
      • Census data might be used to identify the number of people who should be in each subgroup.
      • People who properly identify the source of my name rise tremendously in my estimation.
      • They work closely with health professionals, identifying people who would benefit.
      • Sensitivity refers to how good a test is at correctly identifying people who have the disease.
      • Perhaps one day we will be able to identify a gene that drives people to compulsively kill.
      • Quinnie passed the hours by identifying the countries that have won even fewer medals than us.
      • Piaget is known for identifying the stages children go through as they mature.
      • He is also quite correct in identifying future water problems in some areas of North America.
      • For about two years now, the paper has run a column identifying its own errors and shortcomings.
      • He is identifying questions he raised about the use of psychology in an article of his.
      • Because of the problems in identifying the infection early, the disease spread.
      • By identifying the faulty cameras, we lay ourselves open to the accusation of encouraging criminality.
      • Investigators were yesterday beginning the painstaking task of identifying the cause of the disaster.
      • A committee of five children has been elected to help steer the scheme, identifying areas where work is needed.

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    (associate, equate)
    identificar
    • There is also a strong tendency to identify the court with absolute rule.
    • People closely identified the war with western corporate greed.
    • When physicists write or say ‘as Newton/Einstein/Bohr/Feynman once said…’, it immediately gives them authority by closely identifying them with one of the giants of physics - or so they think.
    • That was the first step, to make that proposal to them, identify a face with the name, understand the terms of the deal, etc.
    • It has become comfortable to identify the term SAN with FC communications, but this has historically caused problems… and the problems are coming to roost.
    • Someone who can be a strong advocate for the church which our school is identified with.
    • Similarly Barthes identifies the ageless photograph with mourning, and de Man in a quotation above associates particularity with both random energy and ‘the power of death.’
    • The US government has identified their military power with US corporate power so closely that a major American defeat would weaken every general, senior manager and privatiser on the globe.
    • They are commodities that, in their mere visible presence veil the production process, and - like mood pictures - encourage their beholders to identify them with subjective fantasies and dreams.
    • Neither of those titans, however, are as indelibly linked to a single work the way Fitzgerald is identified with Gatsby; none of their works is a set text on as many high school or college courses.
    • They did not regard big US brands as identifying them with America itself.
    • In political associations, the object of each man, is to identify his creed with that of his neighbor.
    • Perhaps the need was to identify trailblazers with the creatures and natives always associated with trail; westering families would enter the country already with indigenous credentials.
    • Grog-tempered pottery associated with the burials recovered from the site identify the occupation with the Miller Three complex, A.D.600-1000.
    • An example of the last condition is the case of the mother who strongly identifies her son with a past abusive partner, ex-husband or other male figure.
    • Demand for fundamental political reform became an established fact, and this demand was identified with support for the peace process.
    • It has bitterly disappointed working class voters and its core supporters, who identified it with significant social reforms 20 years ago.
    • Berlin seems to have believed in such a faculty, and identified it with empathy, but did not develop this view in his writings.

verbo reflexivo pronominal identifies, identifying, identified

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    (reveal identity)
    identificarse

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    (link)
    to identify oneself with sth/sb — asociarse con algo/algn
    • The main avenue by which Muldrow identifies with animals and their characteristics is dreaming.
    • In other words, the cross is no more than Jesus identifying with our suffering, sharing in the pathos of it.
    • He urges us to identify with them and share their inmost hopes and fears, their solitude.
    • Just my habit of identifying with minor characters, I think.
    • By identifying with the characters in the book, children enjoy vicarious experiences without having to run any risk.
    • We identify with the characters, even if some of them are not very nice, and others plain nasty.
    • The audience must identify with one of the characters, before becoming involved in the story.
    • Living in a village myself I can almost identify with the characters in the Curmudgeon.
    • It turns out that she identifies with them, and understands what they must feel, since it hurt her deeply when Mozambique fell to the Marxists.
    • I have probably experienced my fair share of loss, and maybe I do identify with that.
    • His whole career has been based on identifying with the marginal and empathizing with those whom polite society would scorn.
    • Horror movies are not all about identifying with the characters though.
    • There's nothing in the story that a child can actually relate to and identify with.
    • He didn't experience Stockholm syndrome, identifying with triumphant soldiers roaring by in impetuous tanks.
    • The prospect of identifying with a lead or co-lead, however, seemed beyond her ability to even imagine.
    • Little kids held their figures aloft, and mommy and daddy beamed at how their kids were identifying with the soldiers.
    • Its aim is to make the viewer, identifying with the lovers, feel good.
    • It's that audiences are identifying with this play because it's about a family and about the disorder in a family.
    • By identifying with particular groups of people, we can join those voices into one loud voice to shout one message.
    • I would suspect that the program divided most of those who watched it, into two groups, one identifying with Orwell and one with Churchill.

verbo intransitivo identifies, identifying, identified

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    to identify with sb/sth — identificarse con algn/algo