noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a name/an identity tag
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Every baby had a name tag on his or her wrist.
a sense of identity (= a feeling of knowing who you are and how you belong to a community )
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Change can threaten our fragile sense of identity.
an ethnic identity (= the feeling of belonging to one race or national group )
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These small tribal communities share a common ethnic identity.
an identity/ID card (= one that proves who you are )
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All US citizens must carry an identity card.
case of mistaken identity
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The police arrested someone, but it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity .
corporate identity/image (= the way a company presents itself to the public )
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Our new logo is part of the process of developing our corporate identity.
cultural identity (= feeling of belonging to a particular group and sharing its values )
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Children develop a sense of their racial and cultural identity at a young age.
gender identity (= whether someone is male or female )
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Gender identity refers to our inner feeling of being masculine or feminine.
identity card
identity parade
identity theft (= when someone steals your personal information and uses it to obtain goods or money )
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Credit card companies and banks bear the financial loss, rather than the victim of the identity theft.
identity theft
mistaken identity
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The police arrested someone, but it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity .
proof of identity (= something that proves who you are )
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Do you have any proof of identity, such as a passport?
sb’s true identity
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He knew someone would soon discover his true identity.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
corporate
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All these contributed much to a sense of fellowship and corporate social identity as well as providing opportunities for personal development and individual enrichment.
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What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity .
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The Rentokil corporate identity has been updated for the 90's.
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The corporate identity image has been slow to disappear, with the old standard liveries lingering even on Intercity services.
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This last, where a new corporate identity has been developed and recently launched, is particularly important in international markets.
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Instinctive acceptance of a corporate identity for this constituency forced the party into an integrative role on two distinct but related fronts.
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The purpose of the letterhead is to produce a corporate identity .
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By the beginning of the eighteenth century the diplomats appeared to possess a kind of corporate identity .
cultural
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However, I had already begun the process, long before coming over, of minimizing and dismissing my cultural identity .
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The legislation was largely inspired by the priority which the regional parties gave to preserving local cultural identities .
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He is adamant that any open manifestation of religious or cultural identity at school goes against the principles of secular state education.
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However, Scottishness exists without a separate government. Cultural identity forms over hundreds of years and can not be imposed.
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A consideration of these ideas fostered the recognition that the children had social, racial and cultural identities as well as disabilities.
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Ever since, the Nez Perce have been one of the most politically astute tribes, successfully holding on to their cultural identity .
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Lay ideas and theories are seen to be the product of the individual's experiences and cultural inheritance or identity .
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Romantic nationalism based on the demand for recognition of cultural identity was a sentiment which moved the educated middle classes.
ethnic
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This paper will argue the importance of indigenous ethnic identity in influencing economic development in the region.
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In feminist research on poverty and resources within households; respondents again tend to be given no ethnic identity .
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The few available academic studies have shown that the adopted children grow up well-adjusted and comfortable with their ethnic identity .
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For instance, if one knew a person's ethnic identity one could predict his or her religion with some confidence.
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But even then, the claim to ethnic identity was more often fictional.
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In the mid-90s the government redrew its internal boundaries to reflect ethnic identity .
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Adherence to ethnic identities appears to be growing in strength all over the world.
false
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Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards.
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Under a false identity , he's living it up in Florence, dining out with the aristocracy.
individual
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History was on the other hand associated with stability, with coherent and fixed national and individual identities .
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Their individual and social identities were informed by participating in rituals and traditions rather than by reflection.
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Growing up black involves asserting an individual identity , and an ethnic identity.
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But the colors, too, never blend, and retain their individual identity .
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Establishing an ethnic identity itself facilitates the assertion of an individual identity.
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A steady paper trail of bills, grades, pay stubs, and catalogs helps us create our individual identity .
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On admission a person tends to lose an individual identity .
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What is it that gives a particular person his individual identity ?
national
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He has a several years of experience of conducting interviews on national identity .
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A question of national identity is at play.
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I am still learning the power of national identity .
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For many there was a substantial overlap between religious and national identity .
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Now his incantations of the old slogans of national independence and identity sounded more and more hollow.
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That is not to say that such ambiguity prevents people from claiming a national identity .
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Suffused by a kind of fashionable search for the Key to All Mythologies but also with Breton national identity and culture.
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History was on the other hand associated with stability, with coherent and fixed national and individual identities .
new
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Brown said Chapdelaine would live for a year in her new gender identity before surgery could be considered.
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We consider their initial motivation for management and then follow as they evolve a new professional identity and managerial character.
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However, this theory largely ignores the process of learning new faces and new identities .
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At the very worst, they could take on new identities , live under different names.
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He has gained a new identity , but its nature is unclear to him.
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Finally mustering the courage to act, Blue reaches into his bag of disguises and casts about for a new identity .
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One of the first questions asked concerned the cost of introducing the new identity .
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Some people, unable to forge an acceptable new identity out of the old, fought the changes.
personal
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The analogy between the identity of a living body and that of personal identity makes this plausible.
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They committed themselves to form a new professional and personal identity .
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Trials Loss of personal identity through looking after others.
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We think we are people with a personal identity extending over time to which we refer our experiences.
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Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity .
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They made an initial commitment to form a new professional and personal identity , oriented toward managing people, not technical tasks.
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Lack of privacy, loss of security and personal identity and isolation from family and friends may also contribute to anxiety.
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My youth seemed interminable because my personal identity was unclear, and in the resulting fog the gauge of time became unmeasurable.
racial
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A consideration of these ideas fostered the recognition that the children had social, racial and cultural identities as well as disabilities.
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More children growing up in a world so increasingly diverse that stock racial identities no longer hold up.
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It is curious and extremely unfortunate that this evidence has been ignored and the significance of racial identity minimised.
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Consequently, they may neglect the child's need to develop a balanced racial identity and thereby a well-integrated personality.
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New cultural and political spaces have been opened up, and hegemonic racial identities and structures have been loosened.
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For them the vital issue of racial identity confusion does not exist.
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It is often the children of such families who have the most profound racial identity crisis.
separate
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Field independence also relates to one's sense of separate identity , or developed sense of one's own feelings and needs.
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The sense of a distinct, separate identity fades and is replaced by a metamorphic self-image.
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It has been stripped of its separate identity and made dependent on the market and government for its survival.
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We shall see how it is that different particles of the same type can not have separate identities from one another.
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Various devices were used to encourage the development of separate identities between the two groups.
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It was necessary for the early skins to obtain a separate musical identity .
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During this process gods worshipped in the same animal eventually fused together, while other retained a separate identity .
social
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All these contributed much to a sense of fellowship and corporate social identity as well as providing opportunities for personal development and individual enrichment.
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Their individual and social identities were informed by participating in rituals and traditions rather than by reflection.
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Emphasis is being placed on the cognitive basis of social identity in contrast to the more familiar emphasis on evaluations.
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The unambiguous identity of a child's father is crucial for the child's own social identity.
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Unemployment does not only deny an adequate income, it can create deep crises of social identity .
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Individuals need a social identity - a sense of peoplehood - if they are to identify, develop and function in society.
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The social identities of its priests, lay employees, and worshippers, are being determined.
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Besides being a political coalition, the Frente Amplio had a social movement identity .
strong
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But in the presence of a strong ego identity such manoeuvres would not be necessary.
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The Sikhs have a very strong identity as a religious community and an ethnic group.
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Their varied and imaginative tactics grew out of a strong collective identity developed in the face of the hostility they encountered from management.
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Stax had never established a strong identity in Los Angeles.
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Galicia, too, has its own language and a very strong sense of identity .
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Madeira has its own very strong regional identity .
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Palatine are a regional brewery with a strong Cheshire-Lancashire identity , and we felt that a pie-based menu was particularly appropriate.
true
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Because as the days and weeks unfold so will the true identity of her baby.
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Veterinary examination revealed the true identity of the horse and led to a spell in Maidstone jail for Willett.
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One of the most compelling elements in the myth is the necessity of concealing your true identity .
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Chopin's early C minor Sonata provides reassuring evidence that even geniuses take time to find their true voice and identity .
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They did not even know his true identity .
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Users can appear as they wish and can disguise their true identity or characteristics in many ways.
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Others were painted black co disguise their true identity or perhaps consigned to the attic, there to lie forgotten.
■ NOUN
card
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Su, distraught because thieves had stolen her suitcases, was arrested for allegedly failing to show police an identity card .
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They created an administrative grill, issuing identity cards to families, partly to control them and partly to streamline tax collection.
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Of course there is no such thing as a forgery-proof identity card .
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Cancer cells, like meter readers without identity cards were evidently not to be trusted.
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He or she can come back when they have found the identity card .
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Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards .
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A small identity card is also issued to each member and this is worth the price of subscription alone.
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Again, do you know all the correct details of a uniform and identity card ?
cards
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That means more routine passport checks for every black person living in Britain, and identity cards for everyone.
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They created an administrative grill, issuing identity cards to families, partly to control them and partly to streamline tax collection.
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Cancer cells, like meter readers without identity cards were evidently not to be trusted.
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Five or six Vietcong guys stopped my bus one morning to check the identity cards of the passengers.
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His next visit was to the section inside Century House whose speciality is the preparation of very untrue identity cards .
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Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards .
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Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages.
crisis
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The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis .
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Given more time to contemplate the nature of his existence, Doug One suffers from a woeful identity crisis .
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In middle age he has experienced a breakdown, an identity crisis , which followed a long illness and an operation.
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Why bother being Hollywood if you end up with such an identity crisis ?
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The result was that the Conservative Party suffered an identity crisis .
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Indeed, both parties are undergoing an identity crisis .
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Do others who share my fish-related hobbies suffer a similar identity crisis ?
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Beyond the physical hardships of poverty, he worries about the identity crisis that now afflicts the masses of rural immigrants.
gender
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Brown said Chapdelaine would live for a year in her new gender identity before surgery could be considered.
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Some aspects of gender identity also take longer to acquire than socialization theory predicts.
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Interviews were the obvious method for researching the interlinked topics of gender identity and subject specialization.
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This would have involved giving the criterion of gender identity precedence over physiological criteria.
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We are told that irresponsible women get pregnant solely to reinforce their gender identity .
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While the above are possibly reinforcing features, school curricula, may also evoke tensions in gender identities .
parade
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Both were picked out from an identity parade by witnesses.
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But the way Bridges plays him he'd be the first sicko picked out of an identity parade .
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The law stated that she could not be directly involved with the identity parade .
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Armed with this information, they wouldn't have picked him out on an identity parade .
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Read in studio A police force is trying to encourage more people to take part in identity parades .
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Dalziel wouldn't need an identity parade if he wanted to worry Jacko.
■ VERB
assume
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You assume an identity and wade in.
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These are interactive fantasy environments with multiple players who generally assume game identities .
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The goal is to defeat any attempt to assume another identity while involved with electronic mail or other forms of data communication.
change
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They're even prepared to change their identity if that's necessary.
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Faye Dunaway plays a socialite who has changed her identity to escape her father.
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Name and details have been changed to protect identities .
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Electronic networks, such as electronic mail and computer bulletin boards, extend this changing political identity even further.
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Any attribute of an object can be changed without destroying its identity .
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Yes it's true, the Polytechnic of Central London has completely changed identity .
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In share sales it is the ownership of the contracting party that is changing rather than the identity of the contracting party.
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It seemed odd that a military organisation could have the power to change your entire identity .
conceal
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Here the passive enables the speaker to conceal the identity of the informant.
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One of the most compelling elements in the myth is the necessity of concealing your true identity .
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He concealed his identity with such success that his desire to remain hidden was probably deliberate.
create
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Departments can also help to create a sense of identity and community, and often have discussion groups available.
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A steady paper trail of bills, grades, pay stubs, and catalogs helps us create our individual identity .
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It may be necessary to create a new identity or to rediscover the person we used to be.
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The attempt to create a shared national identity and to escape the shadow of colonial influence was again evident in 1989.
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The consumption of experience becomes a way of creating an identity .
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The Profitboss creates that identity , an identity for each individual in the team as well as for the team itself.
disclose
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He therefore persuaded a friend to procure him a ticket without disclosing his identity .
discover
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We say that he discovers his identity as he learns to distinguish between his body and the rest of the world.
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But we should be clear that we are redressing a difference, not discovering an identity .
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Later, when he discovered the identity of the child, then thirteen, he wrote to apologize.
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As a soldier under the Whites there was a price on his head; some one would soon discover his true identity .
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Countless disciples have begun to discover their new identity as Christians through the same process.
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How on earth had Goebbels discovered the identity of the one remaining escapee?
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The plaintiff may want, even more than damages, to discover the identity of the source.
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As a consequence, a parent is unlikely to discover the identity of an informant if that person has requested confidentiality.
establish
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There are numerous examples of ways in which schools have worked to establish an understanding and identity with the curriculum by parents.
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All of this roster movement makes it hard to establish an identity for a team.
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Get yourself a suntan. Establish a new identity .
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Note how in each case, the belief statement establishes both an organizational identity and the general criteria for measuring effectiveness.
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Links with the past establish man's identity .
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Stax had never established a strong identity in Los Angeles.
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But of course, even here there is pragmatic work to do to establish the identity of the people concerned.
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Parents are not the only people to be relegated when couples are establishing a joint identity .
give
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ISPs do this by giving your computer an identity tag.
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Sports gave her her identity , her physical and psychological strength.
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Some of them gave a different identity from the one contained in the case file.
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Only as they gave up that identity could they begin to accept their identity as manager.
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In feminist research on poverty and resources within households; respondents again tend to be given no ethnic identity .
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Buying a head gives you an identity in the world.
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If you identify to outstanding contribution to profit, proclaim it at your nest team meeting. Give identity to the achievement.
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These systems gave people an identity a place, and a sense of belonging.
hide
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The mysterious disguise hid the identity of the figure, but could not conceal that it only had one arm.
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To do so, he must hide his identity .
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She used the name Blondie to hide her identity .
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And they hid their identities , more so than anyone imagined.
lose
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The solar wind loses its identity in the interstellar medium at a distance no less than that of the outer planets.
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For many years, I felt I had lost my identity .
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Merge with Crystal Palace and lose Wimbledon's identity .
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They were losing touch with their identity .
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Tears stung her eyes a moment at the thought of her sister losing her identity .
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But when you live in another country awhile, you lose your identity and you acquire one from the new country.
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However, over-exposure to the arrestant is detrimental in that male and female complements lose their morphological identity due to chromosome contraction.
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But I lost my whole identity .
maintain
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She is feminine enough to maintain her own identity .
mistake
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Anyway, the upshot is an awkward dinner party seasoned with deception and mistaken identity .
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Contrived plotting, such as marriages of convenience, trite misunderstandings and mistaken identities , should be avoided.
protect
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Journalists frequently protect the identity of confidential sources from police, courts or government officials.
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Name and details have been changed to protect identities .
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Kids will have security codes to protect their identities .
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The couple, of Acton, West London, can not be named to protect the girl's identity .
retain
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In the face of fame the Bavarian has managed to retain his identity , keeping his feet firmly on the ground.
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But the colors, too, never blend, and retain their individual identity .
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During this process gods worshipped in the same animal eventually fused together, while other retained a separate identity .
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These people want to accept each other and live alongside each other, yet retain their identity .
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Some family businesses, on the other hand, must stay small to retain their dynamism and identity .
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But the unit will retain a distinctive identity by having tan berets.
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The institutions which joined would retain their identity and members would retain their existing designations as well as receive new ones.
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Counselling in this case helped a client to retain his sense of identity and purpose.
reveal
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Cory reveals his identity as a member of Space Security.
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It revealed his identity as the estranged son of a wealthy senator, whom he had served for the past seventeen years.
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The Bolton Area Health Authority was forced to reveal his identity after he was named in local newspapers.
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Mr Goldinger has declined to answer questions or reveal the identities and the losses suffered by dozens of investors.
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She asked the woman on the settee to reveal her identity .
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Authorities said Friday night that they had identified the woman but would not reveal her identity until relatives had been notified.
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I am also supposed to have died, according to the surprised traders to whom I have revealed my identity over the phone.
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It's just that it seems a pity for him to reveal his identity .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many teenagers play sports to gain a sense of identity .
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She was afraid marriage would cause her to lose her identity .
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Some fear the community is losing its Hispanic-Indian identity .
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The islanders are proud of their strong regional identity .
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We still don't know the identity of the other man in the picture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of this roster movement makes it hard to establish an identity for a team.
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As the movement progressed, his identity with it became known.
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Each class needs to take a group identity .
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I had no identity , or only a negative identity.
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The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis.
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They were losing touch with their identity .
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We made visible to ourselves the complex, multiplicity of our identities.