Identify and Tell

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Identify

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Identify verb – To find out or establish the identity of.

Tell is a synonym for identify in recognise topic. In some cases you can use "Tell" instead a verb "Identify".

Nearby Words: identification, identity, identified, identifying, identifiable

Synonyms for Identify

Tell

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Tell verb – Mark as different.

Identify is a synonym for tell in recognise topic. Sometimes you can use "Identify" instead a verb "Tell", if it concerns topics such as ascertain, understand.

Nearby Words: telling, teller

Synonyms for Tell

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Related pairs

identify and recognize

tell and recognize

identify and see

tell and see

identify and perceive

tell and perceive

identify and determine

identify and distinguish

tell and distinguish

Common collocations

friend	identify friend	tell friend
man	identify man	tell man
people	identify people	tell people
name	identify name	tell name
Other nouns: someone, parents, time, way, characters, father, anyone, everyone, friends.

Both words in one sentence

Subverted in John Varley's Steel Beach as Hildy's mother flatly refuses to even identify her father, let alone tell her anything about him.

Source: Tell Me About My Father
Because their spirits were that of children, they couldn't identify him properly or tell him apart from other adults.

Source: Good All Along
Tell Me About My Father: Subverted in Steel Beach as Hildy's mother flatly refuses to even identify her father, let alone tell her anything about him.

Source: Literature / Eight Worlds

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