give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property, consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else, recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something, transitive To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation, To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or assert, (biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism, intransitive Biology To determine the taxonomic classification of (an organism), To consider as identical or united; equate, To self-identify