Identify vs. Detect — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Identify and Detect
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Identify
To establish or recognize the identity of; ascertain as a certain person or thing
Can you identify what kind of plane that is? I identified the man at the next table as a famous actor.
Detect
To discover or ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of.
Identify
(Biology) To determine the taxonomic classification of (an organism).
Detect
To discern (something hidden or subtle)
Detected a note of sarcasm in the remark.
Identify
To ascertain as having a certain characteristic or feature
Job candidates who are identified as overqualified.
Children who have been identified with hearing loss.
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Detect
To learn something hidden and often improper about
Detected the manager in a lie.
Identify
To consider as identical or united; equate
The Greek god Ares is identified with the Roman god Mars.
Detect
(Electronics) To demodulate.
Identify
To associate or affiliate closely with
Writers who are identified with modernism.
Detect
To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
Identify
To consider oneself as sharing certain characteristics or attitudes as another
She identifies strongly with her grandmother.
Detect
To work or solve cases as a detective.
Identify
To associate oneself with or admire something, such as a set of ideas
A language learner who identifies with a new culture.
Detect
(obsolete) Detected.
Identify
To believe or assert that one belongs to a certain group or class
She identifies as a libertarian. He identifies as bisexual.
Detect
Detected.
Identify
(transitive) 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.
Detect
To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.
Plain good intention . . . is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last.
Like following life through creatures you dissect,You lose it in the moment you detect.
Identify
(transitive) To disclose the identity of someone.
The Associated Press will not identify the suspect of the crime because he is a juvenile.
Detect
To inform against; to accuse.
He was untruly judged to have preached such articles as he was detected of.
Identify
To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
Detect
Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of;
She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water
We found traces of lead in the paint
Identify
(transitive) To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
Identify
(reflexive) To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
Identify
(intransitive) To associate oneself with some group; to feel, or believe one feels, the same way.
Identify
To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
Identify
To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.
Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers.
Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.
Identify
To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.
Identify
To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.
Identify
To coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.; to associate oneself in name, goals, or feelings; usually used with with; as, he identified with the grief she felt at her father's death.
An enlightened self-interest, which, when well understood, they tell us will identify with an interest more enlarged and public.
Identify
Recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something;
She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster
Identify
Give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property;
Many senators were named in connection with the scandal
The almanac identifies the auspicious months
Identify
Consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else;
He identified with the refugees
Identify
Conceive of as united or associated;
Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus
Identify
Identify as in botany or biology, for example
Identify
Consider to be equal or the same;
He identified his brother as one of the fugitives
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