identify

verb

1. 1

   To establish the identity of someone or something.

2. 2

   To disclose the identity of someone.

   “The Associated Press will not identify the suspect of the crime because he is a juvenile.”

3. 3

   To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.

4. 4

   To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.

5. 5

   To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.

6. 6

   To associate oneself with some group.

7. 7

   To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.