identify

To establish the identity of someone or something.

It was hard to identify the shoplifter because the CCTV records didn't have a clear image.

The formal name of a national having domiciliary register shall be identified by the national identity card.

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.

A recent biological inventory uncovered 41 species and 2 subspecies of insects new to science and many species not before identified in the State of Washington.

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

Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people, and their rulers.

18 February, 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech on Economical Reform Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.

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

Der Traum erhält eine neue Deutung, wenn sie im Traum nicht sich, sondern die Freundin meint, wenn sie sich an die Stelle der Freundin gesetzt oder, wie wir sagen können, sich mit ihr identifiziert hat.

Cash endures because his most well-known songs—“I Walk the Line” and “Ring of Fire” among them—weave deeply personal narratives with which listeners of all stripes can effortlessly identify.