to identify.
to issue an ID to.
Go to the admissions office if you haven't been ID'd yet.
Idaho (approved especially for use with zip code).
inner diameter, internal diameter, or inside diameter. Also i.d.
contraction of I had:
I'd never seen anything like it before!
contraction of I would:
If I were you, I'd be careful what I wish for.
identification.
identity.
Military. Infantry Division.
Intelligence Department.
indicating the names of meteor showers that appear to radiate from a specified constellation
Orionids (from Orion)
indicating a particle, body, or structure of a specified kind
energid
Idaho
identification (document)
Also: i.d. inside diameter
Intelligence Department
Also: i.d. intradermal
indicating members of a zoological family
cyprinid
indicating members of a dynasty
Seleucid
Fatimid
See contraction.
1920–25; < Latin id it, as a translation of German Es, special use of es it, as a psychoanalytic term
First recorded in 1935–40
First recorded in 1590–1600
< Latin -id-, stem of -is < Greek: feminine patronymic suffix; or < Latin -idēs < Greek: masculine patronymic suffix
< Greek -idēs -id 1, as singular of New Latin -ida -ida or -idae -idae
From the Latin suffix -idus
First recorded in 1950–55
Use the word id when you talk about the most basic, impulsive part of a person's mind. A baby's instincts for food and comfort, for example, are controlled by her id. In psychology, particularly in psychoanalysis, the mind is divided into three basic parts. The most instinctive of these is the id, the drives for pleasure, food, sex, and aggression. The id is the most chaotic and least organized part of the mind, controlled in a healthy person by the ego and superego. The word id is a Latin translation of the "Es" in Sigmund Freud's "Das Ich und das Es." Both Es and id mean "it."
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Guy and Bruno constitute the two halves of a single personality, the yin and the yang, the superego and the id.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Jonas adds, “It’s allegorical in nature. What if I could just take this man and chain him up? It’s making that literal for us to watch. It’s about that female id deep inside of us.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
You can also get your fossil identified by sending pictures to the British Geological Survey or the Natural History Museum id unit.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Were they a bunch of demonic St. Pauls converting the gentiles, or were they surfers riding the wave of the nation’s collective id?
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
The air came up warmer a id sweeter every moment, sc sweet that it almost brought the tears to your eyes.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
State officials said a software error caused noncitizens to be mistakenly registered to vote when they applied for driver’s licenses and ID cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
But in a post on X, former minister Darren Jones said the ID program had been "unfunded".
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
For example, on page 10, it says "the cost of digital ID cards, for which no specific funding has been identified".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Burnham is also expected to lay out a number of policies this week, including scrapping a plan to introduce compulsory ID cards and adding funding for financial support for families.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The detective flashed ID to the person inside.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
The father-of-two said: "Without it, I don't know what I'd do. The cost of living definitely has had an impact. Half the time, I can't afford food for myself."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
I’d also argue that loading up your ramen with as many vegetables as possible, namely leafy greens, is a great way to enjoy your favorite fresh produce, stress-free.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
I’d been invited to ride shotgun in various hot cars before but declined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
I’d like to help her make smart decisions with this windfall and make sure there aren’t any unexpected consequences of receiving an inheritance at her age.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Looking back, if I’d known that playing the cello would make me an outcast on my street, I’d have never picked up the instrument.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Chrysalis or -id: applied specifically to the intermedial stage between larva and adult in butterflies: see pupa.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
It was the essential nature of the marriage right, discussed at length in Zablocki, see id., at 383–387, that made apparent the law’s incompatibility with requirements of equality.
From Time ● Jun. 26, 2015
It was the essential nature of the marriage right, discussed at length in Zablocki, see id., at 383-387, that made apparent the law’s incompatibility with requirements of equality.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 26, 2015
“If you look at it in Freudian terms, it’s like the id. It’s this unmasked side of ourselves,” he says.
From Time ● Apr. 17, 2014
The court found that the appellant “plainly manifested,” id. at 17, an expectation that his email would not be scrutinized.
From Forbes ● Feb. 8, 2011
"Inwal; to enclose or fortify with a wall."—See id., p.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Curtis introduced the manager of the Magic Lantern Cinema of Ketchum, Id., who spoke about being traumatized by John Carpenter’s original “Halloween,” Curtis’ breakout role.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
Local bans on personal fireworks have also been implemented in Montana's Yellowstone National Park and other cities like Boise, Id. and Santa Fe, N.M., are working to follow suit.
From Fox News ● Jul. 4, 2021
Schofield's place for pontoon bridges is fixed by his dispatch to Sherman, Id., p.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson
Id., 1st series, chapter 19, and 2nd series, chapter 7.
From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard
As to brigaders, see Halleck to Grant, Id., p.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson
Longfellow said, “You already gave me an ID. If it’s fake, you fix it. The Pope is dead, let me mourn.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
“In many cases, a lot of these people have lost their ID. They’re unable to go to the bank. They’re unable to get their bank cards,” Ramirez said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
Volkswagen, which is spending around $55 billion globally on EVs by 2026, launched its new-generation of ID. series in China early last year but missed its goal of selling 80,000 to 100,000 cars last year.
From Reuters ● May 25, 2022
“He needs that to get his Cal ID. He needs his Cal ID to get his Social Security card. If he doesn’t have that, he’s never going to get a housing resource,” Sodenkamp explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
“Everything got very quiet. There was two hundred dollars in it, and all of Bunny’s ID. The policeman who’d found it said, ‘I think we’d better contact this boy’s family.’
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Visit enroll.clearme.com/enroll to sign up with your government I.D.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
They pointed out the injustice of being charged for threatening police, when they regularly felt threatened by police I.D. checks.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
He returned with my I.D. and a freshly printed ticket, and informed me that I had 15 days to plead not guilty.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2023
The studio motored along, with a new class of top artists such as Jhene Aiko, Lizzo, Marcus Mumford and acclaimed hip-hop producer No I.D. coming through to create.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
But even if he got a fake I.D., what would he do?
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Like the first silent performers, the animated Minions are mutely expressive ids designed to play like gangbusters around the globe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
They’re not dealing just with X’s and O’s but also with ids and egos.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2021
The industry is on a journey and there will be browser-based proposals that do not need individual user ids and ID-based proposals that are based on consent and first party relationships.
From The Verge ● Apr. 16, 2021
Late at night, the ids of his callers and guests flash like dorsal fins.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2017
According to Weismann, this is possible, because the egg contains many, sometimes as many as a hundred, ids, each of which is a combination representing the species.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar
Investigators later ID’d a 17-year-old as their suspect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
Rodgers, in a silky double-breasted suit and matching dress shirt that paint-chip enthusiasts might have ID’d as “spilled merlot” or “Miss Havisham’s gate,” was seated just behind Nicholaw.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
You’ve been doing it for the last year or so where people are just walking around ID’d as being Facebook contractors and they’re just capturing what they see with sensors on their glasses.
From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2021
“I hadn’t ID’d this as something strange until he asked me,” Emmons recalled.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021
SAT Taste apples and other fall fruits and learning about growing them, get your mystery apples ID’d, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2016
She also ID’ed the man’s hand in the video as her husband’s, according to Newsweek.
From Fox News ● Jul. 15, 2019
The hacker was first ID'ed as a member of LulzSec last month, when private chat logs were leaked to the press.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2011
But beware of merely ID’ing a tree, snapping a pic and moving on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
In a tweet sent Wednesday, Scott-Railton said that details surfaced by other online sleuths had led “to high-confidence ID’ing of more troubling characters” and were referred to the FBI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2021
“As we started ID’ing people,” says Schulte, “we realized there weren’t a lot of people who had moved.”
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2012
Zachs with an H and Zacks with a K. All these men have lived in my phone contacts, unceremoniously IDed with the last name “Hinge” like ear tags on cattle monitored for progress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
The user also tested it out and found some poor results: “One of my harvestman photos was IDed as a jumping spider, one as a termite, and another one as a crane fly.”
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2022
New York State plans to approve as many as three casino licenses for the city, and operators and politicians have IDed Times Square as a potential location.
From Slate ● May 26, 2022
Kevin Sheekey, the campaign manager, wrote on Twitter that “3 is the total number of NDAs that have been IDed over thirty+ years pertaining directly” to Mr. Bloomberg.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2020
This must be the vial he’d IDed as Isaac.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Another study found that PictureThis worked better than other apps at identifying 17 toxic plants, but it still wasn’t exactly great, IDing 59 percent of them correctly.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2022
Or are some so insulated that they don’t know you don’t have to start every text by IDing yourself?
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2018
When campaigns set out to identify voters’ preferences, what canvassers call IDing, they try to reach people on their home phone line or at their doorstep, because that’s where they’re registered to vote.
From Slate ● May 8, 2012
“Without it you were stuck with somehow IDing these voters.”
From Slate ● May 8, 2012
Wallace wound up the piece by IDing Gastroenterologist as a virtuoso response to the blue flow and schizoid flip of the Tube in its own terms.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2012
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