Word Finder - identification

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The act of identifying, or proving to be the same.

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Much education and experience is required for proper identification of bird species

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The state of being identified.

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A particular instance of identifying something.

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information necessary to make a good identification

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A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.

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The authorities asked for his identification

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A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding or belonging towards somebody or something.

He wore identification tags, and she looked closely without seeing the key fob.

That is a matter of identification as to time only.

His paintings were so unique as to require no signature for identification.

Their form, however, is not sufficiently characteristic to warrant this identification, though it may be noted that the nearest approximation to phallic worship is found amongst the most typical of African peoples, viz.

If you fellows show me some identification, then I'll know who to tell Vinnie was looking for him...if I happen to see him.

This identification is confirmed by Roman milestones in the neighbourhood.

A slave bore an identification mark, which could only be removed by a surgical operation and which later consisted of his owner's name tattoed or branded on the arm.

Little confidence can, however, be placed in the identification of Proteaceous or, indeed, of any distinctively Australian plants in Tertiary deposits in the northern hemisphere.

On the practical side, mysticism maintains the possibility of direct intercourse with this Being of beings - intercourse, not through any external media such as an historical revelation, oracles, answers to prayer, and the like, but by a species of ecstatic transfusion or identification, in which the individual becomes in very truth " partaker of the divine nature."

In the restoration of the outlines of ancient and medieval geography in Asia Sven Hedin's discoveries of the actual remains of cities which have long been buried under the advancing waves of sand in the Takla Makan desert, cities which flourished in the comparatively recent period of Buddhist ascendancy in High Asia, is of the very highest interest, filling up a blank in the identification of sites mentioned by early geographers and illustrating more fully the course of old pilgrim routes.

In the absence of specific evidence any such identification must be regarded with suspicion.

Admitting the identification, we may perhaps conclude that the temple was repaired in order to provide a temporary home for the venerated image and other sacred objects; no traces of a restoration exist, but the walls probably remained standing after the Persian conflagration.

The identification of Argob, a region of the kingdom of Og, is a matter of much difficulty.

He was elated that, in his mind, his earlier identification was affirmed.

He was willing to personally alert the local police and have them check out the vehicle even without clear cut identification.

The loss of the surgeon's hand that caused loss of life or limb; or the brander's hand that obliterated a slave's identification mark, are very similar.

In each species, two or three kinds of nematocysts occur, some large, some small, and for specific identification the nematocysts must be studied collectively in each species.

With this opposition to the Church they combine a complete antinomianism, through the identification of all their desires with the impulses of the divine Spirit.

This double identification enabled Cassiodorus to bring the favoured race into line with the peoples of classical antiquity, to interweave with their history stories about Hercules and the Amazons, to make them invade Egypt, to claim for them a share in the wisdom of the semi-mythical Scythian philosopher Zamolxis.

She assumes various local forms in the old Semitic world, and this has led to consequent fusion and identification with the deities of other nations.

This identification has been hotly contested by many scholars, and the question must still be regarded as undecided.

The identification, however, cannot be regarded as certain in the absence of inscriptions.

An interesting discovery seems to have been made in the identification by Drs.

But the identification becomes undeniable, as further characteristics of this priestly dynasty come to light.

But these arguments have been shown to be shaky if not baseless, and the identification is now generally abandoned.

This identification can only be p urchased at the cost of a complete renunciation of the Avestan genealogy.

The name Eubea was given to the place in 1872 owing to a false identification with the Greek city of Euboea, a colony of Leontini, founded probably early in the 6th century B.C. and taken by Gelon.

Any frank recognition of the abbe's even general principles involves the abandonment of the identification of theology with scholasticism or even with specifically ancient thought in general.

The Eurypterines (Gigantostraca) were included in the identification, although at that time they were supposed PMP. FIG.

In 1893, some years after the identification of the somites of Limulus with those of Scorpio, thus indicated, had been published, zoologists were startled by the discovery by a Japanese zoologist, Kishinouye (8), of a seventh prosomatic somite in the embryo of Limulus longispina.

The simple identification of somite with somite in Limulus and Scorpio seemed to be threatened by this discovery.

Elsewhere the identification of the Silurian and older systems does not rest on palaeontological evidence.

There has been considerable discussion as to the identification of the Homeric lotus.

In 1860 full religious liberty was guaranteed, and the identification of church and state abolished.

Kugener, La Compilation historique de pseudo-Zacharie le Rheteur (Paris, 1900), this identification is a mistake.

The whole of the record is independent of names, and the final identification is by means of the photograph which lies with the individual's card of measurements.

Three years later England followed suit; and as the result of a fresh inquiry ordered by the Home Office, finger prints were alone relied upon for identification.

Bambaata was killed in battle (June loth); his head was cut off for purposes of identification, but afterwards buried with the body.

But this identification is far from certain, as a Ctesibius mechanicus is mentioned by Athenaeus as having lived under Ptolemy II.

The Cretaceous beds have not yet been separated from the overlying Eocene, and the identification of the system rests on the discovery of a single Cenomanian ammonite.

The country was thickly studded with towns, the sites of which are still represented by mounds, though the identification of most of them is still doubtful.

The identification of the northern and southern Hittites, however, presents certain difficulties not yet fully explained; and it seems that we must assume Heth to have been the name both of a country in the north and of a tribal population not confined to that country.

That identification stands, and no earlier Egyptian mention of the race has been found.

In the former passage of Jubilees the subject-matter leads to this identification, as well as the fact that Noah is represented as speaking in the first person, although throughout Jubilees it is the angel that speaks.

This identification has been confirmed by the discovery of a series of boundary inscriptions, apparently marking the limit of the city's lands, which have been found cut in rock - outcrops partly surrounding the site.

Pahlavi inscriptions' found on crosses at St Thomas's Mount near Madras and at Kottayam in Travancore, are evidence both of the antiquity of Christianity in these places (7th or 8th century), and for the semi-patripassianism (the apparent identification of all three persons of the Trinity in the sufferer on the cross) which marked the Nestorian teaching.

The identification (Schrader, McCurdy, &c.) of Azariah with Azriyau of Ja'udi, the head of a North Syrian confederation at Hamath (Hamah) overcome by Tiglath-Pileser IV.

The Servian chroniclers connect its origin with their own nationality, basing this view upon the identification of Sarab with Sorb or Serbia.

The same spirit continues to show itself in the almost reckless introduction of Greek deities even within the walls of the pomoerium and their ready identification with gods of the old religion, whose cult they in reality superseded.

This they accomplished partly by the popular process of adoption and identification, partly by imitative creation.