id
IPA: ˈɪd
Root Word: ID
noun
- (music) An electronic music track without an official title.
- (radio, television) An ident.
- (psychoanalysis) The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
- (computing) Identifier.
- Abbreviation of identification / identifier / identity document. [(strictly) The act of identifying (i.e., which one, which thing).]
- Abbreviation of identifier. [Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.]
- Initialism of intellectual disability. [Any disability that affects the intellect or cognitive ability of a person.]
- Initialism of intelligent design. [The belief that biological life on Earth, or more broadly, the universe as a whole, was created by an intelligent agent (specified or unspecified) rather than being the result of undirected natural processes.]
- Initialism of industrial design. [A process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production.]
- Initialism of inside diameter.
- Initialism of inner diameter. [The diameter of the inside of a tube, pipe or any other object.]
- Initialism of internal diameter.
- Initialism of industry discount. [(aviation) A discounted air fare for airlines staff.]
- (nutrition) Initialism of iron deficiency. [(medicine) The state in which a body lacks enough iron to supply its needs.]
- Abbreviation of Idaho. [A state in the western United States. Capital and largest city: Boise.]
- Alternative spelling of ide (the fish) [A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.]
verb
- (transitive) To identify (an object, etc.).
- (transitive) To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age.
- (intransitive) To identify (as something)
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Examples of "id" in Sentences
- The brain sends the id back to the cerebellum.
- The Postcard ID uniquely identifies the postcard in the system.
- It is the vegetative stage of the pre ego, identical with the id.
- It's the grey patches at the side of the head that clinch the ID.
- The ambiguousity of the definition ID allows it to sidestep attacks.
- The type of the plug inserted is detected by the state of the pin ID.
- If the id numbers increase haphazardly, the host is not actually idle.
- It covered registration of the population and the issue of wartime ID cards.
- Ivar, the evidence for the duplicity of ID proponents is their own admissions.
- Pompeia was featured in the Epistolary novel Ides of March by Thornton Wilder.
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