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id

noun, verb — 14 senses

ID

nounalso spelled ID

/aɪˈdiː/

9 senses
  1. 1Abbreviation of identification, identifier, or identity document.
  2. 2An ident.
  3. 3Initialism of image description.
  4. 4Initialism of intellectual disability.
  5. 5Initialism of intelligent design.
  6. 6Initialism of industrial design.
  7. 7Initialism of inside diameter, inner diameter, or…
  8. 8Initialism of industry discount.
  9. 9Initialism of iron deficiency.
1

Abbreviation Abbreviation of identification, identifier, or identity document.

  • Show me your ID.
  • 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

Broadcasting, Media, Radio, Television An 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

Internet, Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of image description.

4

Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of intellectual disability.

5

Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of intelligent design.

6

Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of industrial design.

7

Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of inside diameter, inner diameter, or internal diameter.

8

Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of industry discount.

9

Abbreviation, Initialism Initialism of iron deficiency.

Derived terms
caller ID, eID, ID card, IDer, IDist, ID restoration, self-ID, UID, user ID

ID

verb
1

To identify (an object, etc.).

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

To 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.
  • 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

To identify (as something)

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

id

noun

/ɪd/

Etymology From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).

1

Human sciences, Medicine, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sciences The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.

  • "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):
1 more example
  • 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:
Synonyms
lizard brain, reptilian brain
Derived terms
idant, idlike
Coordinate terms
ego, superego

id

noun

Etymology Abbreviation of identifier.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Identifier.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for ID and id.