noun

(music) An electronic music track without an official title.

(radio, television) An ident.

(computing) Identifier.

(psychoanalysis) The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.

Abbreviation of identification / identifier / identity document. [(strictly) The act of identifying (i.e., which one, which thing).]

Initialism of intellectual disability. [Any disability that affects the intellect or cognitive ability of a person.]

(Internet) Initialism of image description.

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 or inner diameter or 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 of the United States. [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.]

Alternative form of Eid. [(Islam) Any of various Muslim religious festivals.]

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)

adjective

Initialism of intellectually disabled. [Having an intellectual disability.]

Roots

idid- · Latin · it, the it

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