idem
plural ID's or IDs
: a document (such as a card) bearing identifying information about and often a photograph of the individual whose name appears on it
called also ID card, identification card, identity card
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Idaho
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identification
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independent distributor
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industrial design
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often not capitalized
inside diameter; inner diameter; internal diameter
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often not capitalized
inside dimensions
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intellectual disability; intellectually disabled
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intelligence department
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: one belonging to a (specified) dynastic line
Abbasid
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: meteor associated with or radiating from a (specified) constellation or comet
Perseid
: body : particle
chromatid
Synonyms
Examples of id in a Sentence
Verb
The police have not yet ID'd the victim.
studies that show that eyewitnesses are surprisingly unreliable when called upon to ID the perpetrators of crimes
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Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
Kindness is comedy’s boring first cousin, the very thing that most standup comedians and their rampant ids want to get away from, in order to be their worst and thus their funniest selves.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
Tina Reed, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
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Noun
The dataset linking analyst names to their recommendations was not provided anymore by I/B/E/S. Clever researchers such as Kelvin Law at Nanyang Business School found a way to reverse engineer some of these anonymous ids.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
Kindness is comedy’s boring first cousin, the very thing that most standup comedians and their rampant ids want to get away from, in order to be their worst and thus their funniest selves.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
Verb
Between the lines: There are other tools on the market that ID drugs that can be repurposed.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Id.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/id. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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id
2 of 4 noun
: a skin rash that is an allergic reaction to an agent causing an infection
a syphilitic id
tinea pedis and the vesicular ids arising from it—The Journal of the American Medical Association
compare bacterid
The Journal of the American Medical Associationid
3 of 4 abbreviation
the same
ID
4 of 4 abbreviation1
identification
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inside diameter; internal diameter
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intellectual disability; intellectually disabled
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intradermal
Etymology
Abbreviation
Latin idem
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