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Translingual
Symbol
ID
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Indonesia.
- Synonym: IDN (alpha-3)
English
Pronunciation
Noun
ID (countable and uncountable, plural IDs)
- Abbreviation of identification / identifier / identity document.
Show me your ID.
- (music) An electronic music track without an official title.
- (radio, television) An ident.
2015, Simran Kohli, The Radio Jockey Hand Book, page 93:If not done at the top of the hour, however, the station ID should come at the next possible break in the programme.
- (Internet) Initialism of image description.
- Initialism of intellectual disability.
- Initialism of intelligent design.
- Initialism of industrial design.
- Initialism of inside diameter or inner diameter or internal diameter.
- Antonym: OD
- Initialism of industry discount.
- (nutrition) Initialism of iron deficiency.
Derived terms
Translations
Proper noun
ID
- Abbreviation of Idaho.
Verb
ID (third-person singular simple present IDs or ID's, present participle IDing or ID'ing, simple past and past participle IDed or ID'ed or ID'd)
- (transitive) To identify (an object, etc.).
Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.
- (transitive) 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.
2007, Jane Haddam, Conspiracy Theory: A Gregor Demarkian Novel:Anyway, Margiotti found the guard and showed him the picture. He ID'ed it. Sort of. It was dark.
- (intransitive) To identify (as something)
I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race
Adjective
ID (not comparable)
- Initialism of intellectually disabled.
Anagrams
Japanese
Etymology
From English ID.
Pronunciation
Noun
ID • (aidī)
- identification
- identifier
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