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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He meets Janine, his equal in appetite and id, sending him into a tailspin of yearning and loops of Sky Ferreira’s “Everything Is Embarrassing” on sadboi walks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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
By 2006, American Lawyer magazine observed he “has become so indispensable to Citigroup that he carries an employee id card from the bank.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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
I headed north for three blocks and then I walked for what I figured to be about half a mile, but didn’t li id no Red Apple Diner.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
Currently, sellers must be at least 18 and show ID, or have parental permission, while buyers aren’t required to show ID.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
They took Gavidia’s Real ID and never returned it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
He also said the measure, which will appear as Proposition 39 on the November ballot, is “a bipartisan solution to Voter ID and is supported by a supermajority of Democratic, independent, and Republican voters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
For Megan, having both audio and visual methods to ID birds in Merlin reflects the "inclusive and accessible" nature of birdwatching.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The next day, like every day, security guards checked the ID badges of everyone coming and going from Rand headquarters.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
He'd throw balls and I'd have to try to hit it to a certain place: that corner, then that corner.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“I thought I’d be working with Chick-fil-A’s and Dollar Generals,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
"I'd remember that MP who had a spider that he'd threaten MPs with, or when Boris Johnson walked into a fridge. I'm frantically writing them all down."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Each week, I’d search online for videos showing Greybeard’s journey, a pep in his step or the grueling grind across the miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
I stand up, clear my throat, and announce the last question: “This sounds kind of corny, but I’d still like to know: Where do you see yourself in ten years?”
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 John. B. Smith
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
It is my present, not C.'s, id. est he gave 'em me, I you.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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
Id., 8th series, chapter 22, and 9th series, chapter 11.
From Fabre, Poet of Science by Bernard Miall
Chinook Jargon, the trade language of Oregon: Id., ib.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
For Pope's submission of Order No. 11 to Mr. Lincoln and the limitation placed on it, see Id., vol. xii. pt. iii. pp.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob Dolson Cox
You can also put his documents in a safe place, ID.; verification of all current income, including Social Security and records of assets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
“They refuse to give ID. They’re driving regular cars with tinted windows and in some cases out-of-state license plates,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2025
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
"They asked me for my ID. Then this guy had a radio and he was like: 'Target achieved.'"
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 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
“Yeah, Dad, the Marine Corps spares no expense on those I.D. photographs. It must cost them at least a nickel for every million dependents they take pictures of,” Ben said.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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
And that in whatever jazzy afterlife exists for wayward novelists, they’re up there ashing carelessly into their martinis, and letting ids and peckish wildcats run free.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2023
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
This monarch, who was highly respected, though greatly feared, by ids subjects, had some eccentricities.
From The Court of the Empress Josephine by Thomas Sergeant Perry
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
“Anyone can buy, without being carded or ID’d, a can of Reddi-wip or any other canister of whipped cream,” Addabbo told the AP.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
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
“We ID’d a few of those guys, and we went out and brought those guys in.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2020
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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