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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aɪˈdiː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -iː

Noun

ID (countable and uncountable, plural IDs)

Abbreviation of identification / identifier / identity document.
Show me your ID.
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (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

identification or identity documentation — see identity card

Proper noun

Abbreviation of Idaho: a state of the United States.

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