释义 |
reiˈdentify, v. [re- 5 a.] a. trans. To identify again or in a new way; also absol. b. intr. To identify oneself with something again.
1934Webster, Reidentify, v.t. 1959P. F. Strawson Individuals i. 32 We cannot attach one occasion to another unless, from occasion to occasion, we can reidentify elements common to different occasions. Ibid. 55 A condition..of the possession of a single, continuously usable framework..was the ability to reidentify..some elements of the framework in spite of discontinuities of observation. 1964C. M. Wise in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 208 The second element..has been reidentified as a voiced postvocalic allophone. 1966‘Han Suyin’ Mortal Flower xii. 258 Others are longing to go back, to reidentify, but they are afraid of changing. |