Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Diligent; persistent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
Qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An identification.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, media, radio, television
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An identifier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix -and) of Middle English ithen, from Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), from iðja, iðna (“to do, perform”), from ið (“a restless motion”), equivalent to ithe + -and and/or ithe + -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), Norwegian idig (“busy”), Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”). More at ithand.
A shortened form of identification.
A shortened form of identify.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
