id

plural ids

1. human sciencesThe unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.

   The phenomenon may seem like a random burble of the internet’s id, but Alvarez has been making similarly entrancing—if mostly nonmusical—work for the past few years.

   2023 September 27, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Weirdos Living Inside Our Phones”, in The Atlantic

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   "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 research, to modify this statement?"

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

   Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id.

   2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2012

   Synonyms: lizard brain, reptilian brain

plural ids

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of ide (the fish)

plural ids

1. computingIdentifier.

1. alternativeAlternative form of id..

plural IDs

1. abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of identification, identifier, or identity document.

   Show me your ID.

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   The keys are not as flat and offer more space between them. Better yet, you still maintain a physical row of function keys (including ESC) and the Touch ID sensor is still here.

   2020 March 20, Jacob Krol, “Apple’s MacBook Air makes a good first impression with strong performance and punchy keys”, in CNN

2. countableuncountablebroadcastingAn ident.

   If not done at the top of the hour, however, the station ID should come at the next possible break in the programme.

   2015, Simran Kohli, The Radio Jockey Hand Book, page 93

3. InternetabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of image description.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of intellectual disability.

   Synonyms: MR

5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of intelligent design.
6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of industrial design.
7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of inside diameter, inner diameter, or internal diameter.

   Antonyms: OD

8. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of industry discount.
9. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablenutritionInitialism of iron deficiency.

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Idaho: a state of the United States.

present singular third person IDs · present singular third person ID's · participle present IDing · participle present ID'ing · participle past IDed · past IDed · participle past ID'ed · past ID'ed · participle past ID'd · past ID'd

1. transitiveTo identify (an object, etc.).

   Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.

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   I know you’ve already ID’d us as cops, so that’s DC Daniels and I’m Henry Christie.

   2019, Nick Oldham, chapter 14, in Wildfire (A Henry Christie Thriller; 26), London: Severn House Publishers, published 2020, →ISBN

2. transitiveTo 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.

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   Anyway, Margiotti found the guard and showed him the picture. He ID'ed it. Sort of. It was dark.

   2007, Jane Haddam, Conspiracy Theory: A Gregor Demarkian Novel

3. intransitiveTo identify (as something)

   I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race

1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparableInitialism of intellectually disabled.

plural Ids

1. IndiaalternativeIslamAlternative form of Eid.

1. IndiaalternativeIslamAlternative form of Eid.