ID

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a card or badge used to identify the bearer

   you had to show your ID in order to get in

2. 2
   noun

   Abbreviation of identification / identifier / identity document.

   Show me your ID.

3. 3
   noun

   An ident.

   If not done at the top of the hour, however, the station ID should come at the next possible break in the programme.

4. 4
   verb

   To identify (an object, etc.).

   Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.

5. 5
   verb

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   To identify (as something)

   I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race

7. 7
   noun

   The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.

   "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?"

8. 8
   noun

   (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity

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”).