id.

¹

abbreviation

1. idem.

ID

²

abbreviation

1. Idaho (approved especially for use with zip code).

2. infectious disease.

3. inner diameter, internal diameter, or inside diameter. Also i.d.

4. intellectual disability.

5. intelligent design.

I.D.

³

abbreviation

1. identification.

2. identity.

3. Military.,  Infantry Division.

4. Intelligence Department.

-id

⁴

1. a suffix of nouns that have the general sense “offspring of, descendant of,” occurring originally in loanwords from Greek (Atreid; Nereid ), and productive in English on the Greek model, especially in names of dynasties, with the dynasty's founder as the base noun (Abbasid; Attalid ), and in names of periodic meteor showers, with the base noun usually denoting the constellation or other celestial object in which the shower appears (Perseid ).

I'd

⁵

[ahyd]

1. contraction of I had:

   I'd never seen anything like it before!

2. contraction of I would:

   If I were you, I'd be careful what I wish for.

Id.

⁶

abbreviation

1. Idaho.

-id

⁷

1. variant of -ide: lipid .

ID

⁸

[ahy-dee]

noun

1. a means of identification, as a card or bracelet containing official or approved identification information.

verb (used with object)

ID'd, IDed, ID'ed, ID'ing, IDing. 

1. to identify.

2. to issue an ID to.

   Go to the admissions office if you haven't been ID'd yet.

-id

⁹

1. a suffix occurring in descriptive adjectives borrowed from Latin, often corresponding to nouns ending in -or1 : fetid; humid; pallid .

-id

¹⁰

1. a suffix occurring in English derivatives of modern Latin taxonomic names, especially zoological families and classes; such derivatives are usually nouns denoting a single member of the taxon or adjectives with the sense “pertaining to” the taxon: arachnid; canid .

id

¹¹

[id]

noun

Psychoanalysis.

1. the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.

ID.

¹²

abbreviation

1. (in Iraq ) dinar; dinars.

id

¹

abbreviation

1. Indonesia

-id

²

suffix

1. indicating members of a zoological family

   cyprinid

2. indicating members of a dynasty

   Seleucid

   Fatimid

-id

³

suffix

1. indicating the names of meteor showers that appear to radiate from a specified constellation

   Orionids (from Orion)

2. indicating a particle, body, or structure of a specified kind

   energid

id

⁴

/ ɪd /

noun

1. psychoanal the mass of primitive instincts and energies in the unconscious mind that, modified by the ego and the superego, underlies all psychic activity

Id.

⁵

abbreviation

1. Idaho

id.

⁶

abbreviation

1. idem

-id

⁷

suffix

1. a variant of -ide

I'd

⁸

/ aɪd /

contraction

1. I had or I would

ID

⁹

abbreviation

1. Idaho

2. identification (document)

3. Also: i.d. inside diameter

4. Intelligence Department

5. Also: i.d. intradermal

id

1. In Freudian theory, the part of the psyche associated with instinctual, repressed, or antisocial desires, usually sexual or aggressive. In its efforts to satisfy these desires, the id comes into conflict with the social and practical constraints enforced by the ego and superego. (See also pleasure principle.)

Usage

See contraction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of id.¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Origin of id.²

< Latin -id-, stem of -is < Greek: feminine patronymic suffix; or < Latin -idēs < Greek: masculine patronymic suffix

Origin of id.³

First recorded in 1590–1600

Origin of id.⁴

First recorded in 1935–40

Origin of id.⁵

From the Latin suffix -idus

Origin of id.⁶

< Greek -idēs -id ¹, as singular of New Latin -ida -ida or -idae -idae

Origin of id.⁷

1920–25; < Latin id it, as a translation of German Es, special use of es it, as a psychoanalytic term

Word History and Origins

Origin of id.¹

from New Latin -idae or -ida, from Greek -idēs suffix indicating offspring

Origin of id.²

from Latin -id-, -is, from Greek, feminine suffix of origin

Origin of id.³

C20: New Latin, from Latin: it; used to render German Es

Example Sentences

I was a teenager, so not old enough to show my ID, but one day, Jim just said, ‘You guys cannot come in through the back anymore. You can come into the front,’” Aguirre says.

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Question 1, on instituting voter ID and other election changes, is down by a point, 48% yes to 49% no, according to a poll by the University of New Hampshire.

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The measure would require voters to show a government ID at polling places.

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Those wanting an absentee ballot would be asked to write an ID number on the form.

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The legislative language of Question 1 runs 12 pages, and a hazard of lawmaking by ballot initiative is that some Mainers might like voter ID but object to something else.

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