Difference between Place and Identify

What is the difference between Place and Identify?

Place as a verb is to put (an object or person) in a specific location. while Identify as a verb is to establish the identity of someone or something.

Place

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A location or position. An open space, courtyard, market square. A group of houses. A region of a land. Somewhere for a person to sit. A frame of mind. A house or home. A role or purpose; a station. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity. The position of a contestant in a competition. The position as a member of a sports team.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To put (an object or person) in a specific location. To earn a given spot in a competition. To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race. To sing (a note) with the correct pitch. To arrange for or to make (a bet). To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.

Example sentence: Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Identify

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to establish the identity of someone or something.to establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.to equate two or more things.to associate oneself with some group.To map a number of points to one.

Example sentence: Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

We hope you now know whether to use Place or Identify in your sentence.

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