Used in a Sentence

identifying

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for identifying.

Editorial note

Well, that not only didn't work (youtube is still terrible) but provided a means for identifying targets for harrasment.

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Parts of speech2

Quick take

An act of identification.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of identifying gathered in one view.

noun

An act of identification.

adjective

Allowing a person or thing to be easily or uniquely distinguished and identified.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for identifying.

adjective

Allowing a person or thing to be easily or uniquely distinguished and identified.

Example sentences

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Well, that not only didn't work (youtube is still terrible) but provided a means for identifying targets for harrasment.

2

Regulators could address this concern by requiring drones to carry identifying documents (e.g., license plates) and liability insurance.

3

You’ll be responsible for identifying and translating customer needs into flows, concepts and interactions that solve real customer problems.

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A behavioral biometric like this is probably most similar to gait recognition (identifying someone by they way they walk).

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This is actually a big problem with self-identifying feminists on the Internet (read: leaking from tumblr) today.

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However, the real trick is identifying when you're unemployable (or even starting to get close to it) before you're unemployed.

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Safari on Yosemite also shows power usage per tab which is great for identifying rogue websites.

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But going to humb.ly still doesn't really get me to trust you, there's not even any identifying info on that page.

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Like identifying as intro- or extroverted - there's self-tests for that (Myers-Briggs or something).

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Message your school district representatives about swimming education, especially identifying when someone is drowning.

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Will you help everyone else by identifying degree-mill schools that turn out low-quality people?

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If you as a user let your user agent send identifying information to sites that request it, you bear some responsibility for that.

Quote examples

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Using said “rules” to examine prose makes a decent start at identifying some of its problematic passages.

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Any "study" without a discussion of sampling methodology to control for biases and identifying those biases is typically not constructive.

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Very useful for troubleshooting and identifying unexpected network activity, but its removal makes it much easier for this sort of "phoning home" to go unnoticed...

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This is a fundamental difference between DSM diagnosis (which is putting people in descriptive categories, without explaining "why") and medical diagnosis of many conditions with a known cause (which means identifying an explanation such as a virus).

Proper noun examples

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Identifying a problem is the first step to solving it.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use identifying in a sentence?

Well, that not only didn't work (youtube is still terrible) but provided a means for identifying targets for harrasment.

What does identifying mean?

An act of identification.

What part of speech is identifying?

identifying is commonly used as noun, adjective.