Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To know to be something that has been perceived before.
- transitive verb To know or identify from past experience or knowledge.
- transitive verb To perceive or show acceptance of the validity or reality of.
- transitive verb To permit to address a meeting.
- transitive verb To accept officially the national status of as a new government.
- transitive verb To show awareness of; approve of or appreciate.
- transitive verb To admit the acquaintance of, as by salutation.
- transitive verb Law To enter into a recognizance.
- transitive verb Biology To exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate, for example).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cognize again.
- To know (the object) again; recall or recover the knowledge of; perceive the identity of with something formerly known or in the mind.
- To avow or admit a knowledge of, with approval or sanction; acknowledge or accept formally: as, to
recognize one as ambassador; to recognize a government as an independent sovereignty or as a belligerent. - To indicate one's acquaintance with (a person) by a salute: as, to pass one without recognizing him.
- To indicate appreciation of: as, to
recognize merit. - To review; reëxamine; take cognizance of anew.
- To acknowledge; admit or confess as an obligation or duty.
- =Syn. 2–4. Recognize, Acknowledge. The essential difference between these words lies in the difference between letting in to one's own knowledge (recognize) and letting out to other people's knowledge (acknowledge). Hence the opposite of
recognize is disown or some kindred word; that of acknowledge is conceal or deny. To recognize an obligation and to acknowledge an obligation differ precisely in this way. The preacher may be able to make a man recognize, even if he cannot make him acknowledge his need of moral improvement. Seeacknowledge . - In law, to enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal: as, A. B. recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. Also spelled
recognise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Law) To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal.
- transitive verb To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.
- transitive verb To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment
- transitive verb To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.
- transitive verb To show appreciation of.
- transitive verb obsolete To review; to reëxamine.
- transitive verb obsolete To reconnoiter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.
- verb transitive To
acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or valid. - verb transitive To acknowledge or
consider as something. - verb transitive To realise or discover the nature of something;
apprehend quality in; realise oradmit that. - verb transitive To give an
award . - verb To
cognize again.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb show approval or appreciation of
- verb express greetings upon meeting someone
- verb be fully aware or cognizant of
- verb perceive to be the same
- verb exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate)
- verb express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for
- verb detect with the senses
- verb grant credentials to
- verb accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Most important to recognize is that fighting about the price of content has disguised the real issue, which is about how much viewers value the content and the resulting effect on advertising prices.
David Nassar: What Fox vs. Cablevision Was Really About David Nassar 2010
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It is abstract; she used her big, fat paint pens, and the bright colours somehow melded together to emulate, almost perfectly, a pattern I recognize from a tie-dyed sarong I wore on the beach in Dahab.
Spelling Bee 2009
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You won't find anything on that menu you recognize from the Indian restaurants in the East Village, the staff can help you with selections if you're overwhelmed as we were.
London Diary 3 - The Food so Far aka TBTAM 2009
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Most important to recognize is that fighting about the price of content has disguised the real issue, which is about how much viewers value the content and the resulting effect on advertising prices.
David Nassar: What Fox vs. Cablevision Was Really About David Nassar 2010
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"What we need to recognize is there are a lot of things that we agree upon," Boustany told CNN's Fredericka Whitfield.
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And they are definitely not on your list – which has names I recognize from the magazines, but brands I have never tried.
HOLY CRAP I’M STILL OLD BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY « Bored Mommy 2009
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I think what you need to recognize is that we (and I only speak for the ones with pure souls like Visitor Again), are trying to achieve a higher state of reason and knowledge in our society.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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I think that the important thing to recognize is that both sides of the political spectrum are primarily bound together by a sense of moral superiority over the other.
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I think what you need to recognize is that we (and I only speak for the ones with pure souls like Visitor Again), are trying to achieve a higher state of reason and knowledge in our society.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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Most important to recognize is that fighting about the price of content has disguised the real issue, which is about how much viewers value the content and the resulting effect on advertising prices.
David Nassar: What Fox vs. Cablevision Was Really About David Nassar 2010
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