recognize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French reconoistre, from Old French reconoistre, from Latin recognoscere, first attested in the 16th century. Displaced native English acknow (“to recognize, perceive as”), compare German erkennen and Swedish erkänna. Latin had rare recognizare (“to try by jury”).
Inflected forms:
form: recognizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recognizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recognized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recognized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: recognise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
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US
transitive
examples: I recognized his face immediately, although his voice was different.
He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days, and he felt a genuine thrill of pleasure when he recognized the red bandana turban of old Aunt Lyddy, the ancient negro woman who had sold him gingerbread and fried fish, and told him weird tales of witchcraft and conjuration, in the old days when, as an idle boy, he had loafed about the market-house.
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
gloss: To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
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transitive
examples: The US and a number of EU countries are expected to recognize Kosovo on Monday.
gloss: To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).
pos: verb
tags: British
English
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transitive
examples: Slavery is widely recognized as immoral.
I recognize that my behaviour has been unacceptable.
“The United States government maintains relationships with unofficial partners around the world, and Taiwan is no exception. Our two democracies share common values of individual freedom, the rule of law, and a respect for human dignity. Today’s statement recognizes that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy,” Pompeo wrote.
gloss: To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
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transitive
examples: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
gloss: To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc.
pos: verb
tags: British
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transitive
examples: His services were recognized in a testimonial.
The soldier was recognized in dispatches.
gloss: To review; to examine again.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
obsolete
examples: We do moste humbly submytte it [this treatise] to[…]your maiestie, to be recognised, ouersene, and corrected.
gloss: To reconnoiter.
pos: verb
tags: British
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obsolete
examples: before the siege was layd to the Towne, of minde to recognize, he fell unawares amongst an Ambushcade
gloss: To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
Related words: acknowledge
recognition
reconnaissance
Derived words: allorecognize
derecognize
immunorecognize
misrecognize
recognin
recognizability
recognizable
recognizably
recognizance
recognizant
recognization
recognizee
recognizer
recognizingly
recognizor
underrecognize
unrecognizable
unrecognize
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: erken
lang: Bashkir
word: таныу
roman: tanıw
lang: Bulgarian
word: зачи́там
roman: začítam
lang: Bulgarian
word: зачета́
roman: začetá
lang: Catalan
word: reconèixer
lang: Dutch
word: erkennen
lang: Finnish
word: tunnustaa
lang: Finnish
word: tunnistaa
lang: French
word: reconnaître
lang: Greek
word: αναγνωρίζω
roman: anagnorízo
lang: Hungarian
word: elismer
lang: Japanese
word: 認める
roman: mitomeru
lang: Japanese
word: 認識する
roman: ninshiki-suru
lang: Malayalam
word: അംഗീകരിക്കുക
roman: aṅgīkarikkuka
lang: Portuguese
word: reconhecer
lang: Romanian
word: recunoaște
lang: Russian
word: признава́ть
roman: priznavátʹ
lang: Russian
word: призна́ть
roman: priznátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: reconocer
lang: Ukrainian
word: визнава́ти
roman: vyznaváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́знати
roman: význaty
lang: Walloon
word: ricnoxhe
lang: Zulu
word: -vuma