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noun

Psychoanalysis that part of the psyche which is regarded as the reservoir of the instinctual drives and the source of psychic energy: it is dominated by the pleasure principle and irrational wishing, and its impulses are controlled through the development of the ego and superego

Etymology: ModL < L, it, neut. sing. of is, he: used as transl. of Ger es, it

Id definition

Id or Ida

Idaho
ID1 definition

ID (ī′dē′)

noun pl. ID's or IDs

  1. identification
  2. ☆ a card (ID card
    ) or document, as a birth certificate, that serves to identify a person, prove one's age, etc.

adjective

of or for identification an ID card

transitive verb ID'd or IDed, ID'ing or IDing

to identify
Also I.D.
ID2 definition

ID

  1. Idaho
  2. identification
  3. Intelligence Department

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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