id

Noun (1)

id (plural ids)

1. 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...1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
   • Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   Synonyms:

   lizard brain, reptilian brain

Noun (2)

id (plural ids)

1. Identifier.

Noun (3) capitalized: ID

IPA/aɪˈdiː/

ID (countable and uncountable, plural IDs)

1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of identification, identifier, or identity document.
   • Show me your ID.
   • The keys are not as flat and offer more space between them. Better yet, you still maintain a physical row of function keys (including ESC) and the Touch ID sensor is still here.2020 March 20, Jacob Krol, “Apple’s MacBook Air makes a good first impression with strong performance and punchy keys”, in CNN
2. 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.2015, Simran Kohli, The Radio Jockey Hand Book, page 93
3. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of image description.
4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of intellectual disability.

   Synonyms:

   MR

5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of intelligent design.
6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of industrial design.
7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of inside diameter, inner diameter, or internal diameter.

   Antonyms:

   OD

8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of industry discount.
9. (abbreviation, initialism, nutrition) Initialism of iron deficiency.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: ID

IPA/aɪˈdiː/

ID

1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Idaho: a state of the United States.

Verb capitalized: ID

IPA/aɪˈdiː/

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)

1. (transitive) To identify (an object, etc.).
   • Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.
   • I know you’ve already ID’d us as cops, so that’s DC Daniels and I’m Henry Christie.2019, Nick Oldham, chapter 14, in Wildfire (A Henry Christie Thriller; 26), London: Severn House Publishers, published 2020, →ISBN
2. (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.
   • Anyway, Margiotti found the guard and showed him the picture. He ID'ed it. Sort of. It was dark.2007, Jane Haddam, Conspiracy Theory: A Gregor Demarkian Novel
3. (intransitive) To identify (as something)
   • I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race

Adjective capitalized: ID

IPA/aɪˈdiː/

ID (not comparable)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of intellectually disabled.

Noun (4) capitalized: Id

Id (plural Ids)

1. (India, alternative) Alternative form of Eid.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Id

Id

1. (India, alternative) Alternative form of Eid.