English Explanatory Dictionary

ID

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Abbreviation of identification, identifier, or identity document.
  2. An ident.
  3. Initialism of image description.
  4. Initialism of intellectual disability.
  5. Initialism of intelligent design.
  6. Initialism of industrial design.
  7. Initialism of inside diameter, inner diameter, or internal diameter.
  8. Initialism of industry discount.
  9. Initialism of iron deficiency.
name
  1. Abbreviation of Idaho: a state of the United States.
verb
  1. To identify (an object, etc.).
  2. To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age.
  3. To identify (as something)
adj
  1. Initialism of intellectually disabled.
noun
  1. The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
noun
  1. Alternative spelling of ide (the fish)
noun
  1. Identifier.
pron
  1. Alternative form of id..
noun
  1. Alternative form of Eid.
name
  1. Alternative form of Eid.

Pronunciation

/aɪˈdiː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ID.wav /ɪd/ ĭd en-us-id.ogg

Word forms

ID IDs ID's IDing ID'ing IDed ID'ed ID'd

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”).

Synonyms

MR lizard brain reptilian brain

Antonyms

OD

Related words

et id genus omne ID id reaction

Derived words

caller ID eID ID card IDer IDist ID restoration self-ID UID user ID idant idlike
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