# identifying

Pronunciation: US say "y-DEN-tuh-fy-ing" /aɪˈdɛn.(t)ə.faɪ.ɪŋ/; UK say "y-DEN-ti-fy-ing" /aɪˈdɛn.tɪ.faɪ.ɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of identify. — present participle and gerund of identify
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of identify. Use this form for an action happening now or as the name of the action.
   - _The detective is identifying the suspects from the lineup._
   - _Identifying the cause of the outage required hours of testing._

## Noun

2. An act of recognizing or establishing the identity of someone or something.
   - Simple: The act of working out who or what someone or something is.
   - _The identifying of the remains took the forensic team several weeks._
   - _Careful identifying of each specimen prevented errors later in the study._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/identifying (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).