BACTERIZES Synonyms

• arrange or order by classes or categories

• declare unavailable, as for security reasons

• assign to a class or kind

• determine the essential quality of

• give a definition for the meaning of a word

• determine the nature of

• show the form or outline of

• decide upon or fix definitely

• give a description of

• to give an account or representation of in words

• make a mark or lines on a surface

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

• shape or influence; give direction to

• fix conclusively or authoritatively

• decide upon or fix definitely

• reach, make, or come to a decision about something

• fix in scope; fix the boundaries of

• settle conclusively; come to terms

• find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

• observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

• question or examine thoroughly and closely

• question closely

• put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

• a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations

• a generic term for any identifying characteristic

• a smudge made by a (dirty) finger

• take an impression of a person's fingerprints

• recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something

• give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property

• consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else

• conceive of as united or associated

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• consider to be equal or the same

• look over carefully

• come to see in an official or professional capacity

• examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification