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ID¹

  • /aɪˈdiː/

Rhymes with -iː

noun IDs

  1. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of identification, identifier, or identity document.identification Show me your ID.
  2. countable, uncountable An ident. If not done at the top of the hour, however, the station ID should come at the next possible break in the programme.
  3. Internet, abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of image description.image description
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of intellectual disability.intellectual disability
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of intelligent design.intelligent design
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of industrial design.industrial design
  7. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of inside diameter, inner diameter, or internal diameter.inside diameter
  8. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of industry discount.industry discount
  9. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of iron deficiency.iron deficiency

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Idaho: a state of the United States.Idaho

verb IDs · ID's · IDing · ID'ing · IDed

  1. transitive To identify (an object, etc.). Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.
  2. transitive To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age. The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.
  3. intransitive To identify (as something) I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of intellectually disabled.intellectually disabled

id²

  • /ɪd/

Sounds like it'd · Rhymes with -ɪd

Where it comes from

From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).

noun ids

  1. The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model. "There is one sentence in it, however - namely: 'I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.' Have you no desire, in view of later researc

id³

Where it comes from

From Swedish id.

noun ids

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of ide (the fish)ide

id⁴

Where it comes from

Abbreviation of identifier.

noun ids

  1. Identifier.

id⁵

Where it comes from

Abbreviation of idem, from Latin idem (“same”).

pronoun

  1. alternative Alternative form of id..id.

Id⁶

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hindi ईद (īd).

noun Ids

  1. India, alternative Alternative form of Eid.Eid

proper noun

  1. India, alternative Alternative form of Eid.Eid

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