English-Thai Dictionary

identity

N ความเหมือน กัน  sameness kwam-muan-kan

 

identity

N บุคลิกลักษณะ  ลักษณะพิเศษ  ลักษณะเฉพาะ  เอกลักษณ์  individuality uniqueness buk-ka-lik-lak-sa-na

 

identity card

N บัตรประชาชน  บัตรประจำตัวประชาชน  identification card bad-pra-cha-chon

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IDENTITY

n.Sameness, as distinguished from similitude and diversity. We speak of the identity of goods found, the identity of persons, or of personal identity.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

IDENTITY

I *den "ti *ty, n.; pl. Identities. Etym: [F. identité, LL. identitas,fr. L. idem the same, from the root of is he, that; cf. Skr. idam this. Cf. Item. ]

 

1. The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves. Sir W. Hamilton.

 

2. The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.

 

3. (Math. )

 

Defn: An identical equation.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

identity

i den ti ty |īˈdentitē aɪˈdɛn (t )ədi | ▶noun ( pl. identities ) 1 the fact of being who or what a person or thing is: he knows the identity of the bombers | she believes she is the victim of mistaken identity. • the characteristics determining this: attempts to define a distinct Canadian identity. • [ as modifier ] chiefly Brit. (of an object ) serving to establish who the holder, owner, or wearer is by bearing their name and often other details such as a signature or photograph: an identity card. 2 a close similarity or affinity: the initiative created an identity between the city and the suburbs. 3 Mathematics (also identity operation ) a transformation that leaves an object unchanged. • (also identity element ) an element of a set that, if combined with another element by a specified binary operation, leaves that element unchanged. 4 Mathematics the equality of two expressions for all values of the quantities expressed by letters, or an equation expressing this, e.g., ( x + 1 )2 = x 2 + 2 x + 1. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘quality of being identical ’): from late Latin identitas, from Latin idem ‘same. ’

 

identity crisis

i den ti ty cri sis ▶noun Psychiatry a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person's sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a change in their expected aims or role in society.

 

identity matrix

i den ti ty ma trix ▶noun Mathematics a square matrix in which all the elements of the principal diagonal are ones and all other elements are zeros. The effect of multiplying a given matrix by an identity matrix is to leave the given matrix unchanged.

 

identity parade

i den ti ty pa rade |aɪˈdɛn (t )ədi pəˌreɪd |(also identification parade ) ▶noun Brit. a police lineup.

 

identity politics

i den ti ty pol i tics ▶plural noun [ treated as sing. ] a tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc. , to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics.

 

identity theft

i den ti ty theft ▶noun the fraudulent acquisition and use of a person's private identifying information, usually for financial gain.

 

Oxford Dictionary

identity

iden |tity |ʌɪˈdɛntɪti | ▶noun ( pl. identities ) 1 the fact of being who or what a person or thing is: he knows the identity of the bombers | [ mass noun ] : she believes she is the victim of mistaken identity. • the characteristics determining who or what a person or thing is: he wanted to develop a more distinctive Scottish Tory identity. • [ as modifier ] (of an object ) serving to establish who the holder, owner, or wearer is by bearing their name and often other details such as a signature or photograph: an identity card. 2 a close similarity or affinity: an identity between the company's own interests and those of the local community. 3 Mathematics (also identity operation ) a transformation that leaves an object unchanged. • (also identity element ) an element of a set which, if combined with another element by a specified binary operation, leaves that element unchanged. 4 Mathematics the equality of two expressions for all values of the quantities expressed by letters, or an equation expressing this, e.g. ( x + 1 )2 = x 2 + 2 x + 1. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘quality of being identical ’): from late Latin identitas, from Latin idem ‘same ’.

 

identity crisis

iden |tity cri ¦sis ▶noun Psychiatry a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person's sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a change in their expected aims or role in society.

 

identity matrix

iden |tity ma ¦trix ▶noun Mathematics a square matrix in which all the elements of the principal diagonal are ones and all other elements are zeros. The effect of multiplying a given matrix by an identity matrix is to leave the given matrix unchanged.

 

identity parade

iden |tity par ¦ade ▶noun Brit. a group of people including a suspect for a crime assembled for the purpose of having an eyewitness identify the suspect from among them.

 

identity politics

iden |tity pol ¦it |ics ▶plural noun [ treated as sing. ] a tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc. , to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics.

 

identity theft

iden |tity theft ▶noun [ mass noun ] the fraudulent practice of using another person's name and personal information in order to obtain credit, loans, etc.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

identity

identity noun 1 the identity of the owner: name, ID; specification. 2 she was afraid of losing her identity: individuality, self, selfhood; personality, character, originality, distinctiveness, differentness, singularity, uniqueness. 3 a case of mistaken identity: identification, recognition, naming, singling out.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

identity

identity noun 1 they eventually discovered the identity of the owner: name; specification. 2 she was afraid of losing her identity if she became his wife: individuality, self, selfhood, ego, personality, character, originality, distinctiveness, distinction, singularity, peculiarity, uniqueness, differentness. 3 a case of mistaken identity: identification, recognition, naming, singling out, picking out, pinpointing, placing; discerning, distinguishing; N. Amer. informal fingering. 4 management need to secure an identity of interests with shareholders: identicalness, sameness, selfsameness, oneness, congruity, congruence, indistinguishability, interchangeability; likeness, alikeness, uniformity, similarity, closeness, accordance, alignment, parallelism, symmetry. ANTONYMS mismatch.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

identity

i den ti ty /aɪdéntəti /〖idem (同一で )ty (あること )〗(形 )identical, (名 )identification, (動 )identify 名詞 複 -ties /-z /1 U 身元 , 正体, 当人 [当の物 ]であること (｟略 ｠ID ) (!具体例ではan ～/-ties; その際しばしば修飾語を伴う ) ▸ reveal [conceal ] one's identity 身元を明かす [隠す ]▸ (a case of ) mistaken identity 人違い ▸ find out the identity of the stalker そのストーカーの正体を見破る 2 U アイデンティティ , 自己同一性 ; 独自性, 個性 (!具体例ではan ～/-ties; その際しばしば修飾語を伴う ) ▸ one's national identity 国家的同一性 ▸ a sense of identity 自分らしさ ▸ cultural [ethnic, social ] identity 文化 [民族, 社会 ]的アイデンティティ 〘特定の集団に属していると思う強い感情 〙▸ have one's own identity 個性を持つ ▸ She lost her identity as an actress .彼女は女優としての自己を見失った .3 U ｟かたく ｠ «…と » 同一であること ; «…との » 酷似 ; 一体感 «with » .4 C 〘数 〙恒等式 ; 単位元 .～́ c à rd 身分証明書 (ID card ).～́ cr ì sis 自己同一性危機 〘自分自身が何かについて思い悩む精神的に不安定な状態, 人生目標の喪失 〙.～́ par à de ｟英 ｠(面通しするため整列させた )容疑者の列 (｟米 ｠lineup ).～́ th è ft 個人情報窃盗, なりすまし犯罪 .