id

1. (transitive) To identify (an object, etc.).Examples: "Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river."transitive

2. (transitive) To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age.Examples: "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."transitive

3. (intransitive) To identify (as something)Examples: "I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race"intransitive

1. (psychoanalysis) The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.Examples: ""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?""; "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."; "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."Synonyms: lizard brain, reptilian brain

1. (computing) Identifier.