What's the difference between earmark and identify?

Earmark


Definition:

  • (n.) A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.
  • (n.) A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
  • (v. t.) To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Treasury has also earmarked £3bn in "underspends" by departments that have cut more rapidly than planned, to be put to use.
  • (2) Although both conditions are uncommon, an awareness of these horns as specific earmarks of each is important, since early diagnosis may allow preventive intervention for their serious potential complications later in life.
  • (3) "The Sizewell B nuclear plant has been built on the Suffolk coast, a site that has been earmarked for the construction of several more nuclear plants.
  • (4) Climate scientists at the CSIRO who are earmarked for redundancy will learn their fate this week.
  • (5) Money earmarked for mental health diverted to balance NHS books Read more By campaigning for people to help each other by talking more, the royals hope to avoid a more politicised issue: claims that funding for NHS mental health services is being effectively cut.
  • (6) ITV has earmarked £7m to spend in developing the online operation this year.
  • (7) Darling said last week that the government had earmarked £11bn of efficiency savings, but that it did not plan to start cutting back until 2011-12 – when the UK economy should be in more robust shape.
  • (8) A centralized fund has been created by the Soviet Health Ministry, earmarked for concrete scientific projects instead of blanket financing of medical institutions, who, in addition, by 1989 will start being financially self-supporting.
  • (9) But in November, the pub on Hackney Road announced its closure: the site was earmarked for high-end property development.
  • (10) But it will not stop the trade, because the money which has been earmarked for the area by the government never reaches those who need it.
  • (11) However, only a very small number of these associations can be earmarked as reliable using statistical criteria, due to the limited size of the database.
  • (12) Residents of a West Bank settlement earmarked for demolitions by the Israeli supreme court clashed with police and soldiers attempting to evict them today.
  • (13) In 1949 it was estimated that around 2 million homes were unfit for human habitation, too expensive to repair and earmarked for demolition.
  • (14) Santorum insisted on Friday that earmarks were not themselves the problem, only their abuse.
  • (15) Crozier has made much of the need to revitalise the operation, pointing out that the division has not created a global entertainment hit since Dancing on Ice in 2006, and has bought in new talent and earmarked £12m to boost pilot projects.
  • (16) The government has also earmarked $328m extra to provide targeted support for disadvantaged or vulnerable families accessing childcare.
  • (17) Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago.
  • (18) Abcul is now working with the government, which last year earmarked up to £38m to expand credit unions and modernise the 400 UK unions currently in existence.
  • (19) Writing on his BBC blog , Davie said there were "no plans" to rebrand the station, which has been earmarked for closure in a review ordered by the BBC Trust.
  • (20) About $1.2bn earmarked for those jurisdictions was removed from the federal budget in the pre-election economic and fiscal outlook as a result of stalled negotiations – a figure Pyne and Abbott sought to make a virtue of restoring this week .

Identify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.
  • (v. t.) To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.
  • (v. i.) To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
  • (2) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
  • (3) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
  • (4) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
  • (5) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
  • (6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (7) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
  • (8) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (9) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (10) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
  • (11) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
  • (12) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
  • (13) During enzyme purification two nucleases were identified.
  • (14) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
  • (15) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
  • (16) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
  • (17) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
  • (18) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
  • (19) Various metabolites of etoposide and teniposide have been identified but their detection and quantitation are disputed.
  • (20) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.