<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity.</li><li>to serve as a means of identification.</li><li>to make, represent to be, or regard or treat as the same or identical.</li><li>to associate in name, feeling, interest, action, etc. (usually followed by with).</li><li>to determine to what group (a given specimen) belongs.</li><li>to associate (one or oneself) with another person or a group of persons by identification.</li></ul>