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Cognize

Definition: Cognize

Cognize

Verb

1. Be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cognize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Note: Cognize \Cog"nize\, transitive verb. [Compare to Cognizant, Recognize.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Cognize

Synonym: know (v). (additional references)
Antonym: ignore (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cognize

English words defined with "cognize": Incognizance. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cognize

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cognize

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cognize

Language Translations for "cognize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vë re (behold, bend, descry, espy, notice, overlook, reck, remark), di (be acquainted with, be privy to, can, come to know, consider, have, Ken, know, wot). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏علم (adudicate, advertise, advertize, advise, apprise, apprize, banner, bar, bunting, coach, cognizance, drill, educate, flag, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, know, knowledge, learning, let know, locate, mark, mark out, notify, post, profess, read, scholarship, school, science, standard, teach, tell, tick). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

забелязвам (discern, espy, identify, note, notice, observe, perceive, pipe, remark, sight, spot, take in, take notice), познавам (be familiar with, guess, know, recognize, tell). (various references)

   

Czech

  

poznávat. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

دانستن (Account, Adjudge, Aim, Ascribe, Con, Have, Know, Learn, Wit), درک کردن (Appreciate, Apprehend, Catch, Compass, Comprehend, Coneive, Follow, Hear, Induct, Perceive, Realize, Savvy, Seize, Understand). (various references)

   

French

  

connaître. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megismer (Ken, recognize, to come to know). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ognizecay

   

Portuguese

  

conhecer (experience, have at one's fingertips, ken, know, know how, to know, understand), reconhecer (accredit, acknowledge, admit, ascertain, avouch, avow, concede, confess, establish, feel, hallow, honor, honour, identify, ken, know, notice, own, placatory, place, profess, recognize, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, take note, to recognize), perceber (apprehend, perceive, realize, see, twig, understand). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

узнавать (learn, learnt, recognize), познавать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

spoznati (comprehend, perceive), razumeti (apprehend, catch on, comprehend, get it, see, understand), priznati (accord, acknowledge, admit, avow, cede, confess, disbosom, grant, own up, recognize). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

få kännedom. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สังเกต (mind, note, observe, remark). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пізнати, пізнавати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cognize

Derivations

Words beginning with "cognize": cognized, cognizer, cognizers, cognizes. (additional references)

Words ending with "cognize": recognize. (additional references)

Words containing "cognize": recognized, recognizer, recognizers, recognizes, unrecognized. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cognize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cognee, cogni, cognise, cognite, conize, Conyza, Tognazzi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cognize"

Words rhyming with "cognize" (pronounced 'Cog"nize'): Miscognize. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Cognize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-n-o-z"

-1 letter: coigne.

-2 letters: coign, conge, cozen, cozie, genic, incog.

-3 letters: cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, gien, gone, icon, nice, once, zein, zinc, zing, zoic, zone.

-4 letters: cig, cog, con, coz, ego, eng, eon, gen, gie, gin, ice, ion, nog, one, zig, zin.

-5 letters: en, go, in, ne, no, oe, on.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-n-o-z"
 

+1 letter: cognized, cognizer, cognizes, cozening, zoogenic.

 

+2 letters: cognizers, recognize.

 

+3 letters: cognizable, cognizance, creolizing, exorcizing, recognized, recognizer, recognizes, solecizing.

 

+4 letters: cognizances, economizing, eroticizing, necrotizing, poeticizing, recognizers, recognizing.

 

+5 letters: aerobicizing, categorizing, concertizing, concretizing, decolonizing, decolorizing, delocalizing, devocalizing, incognizance, polemicizing, recognizable, recognizably, recognizance, recolonizing, schizogonies, technologize, unrecognized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cognize


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 67 6E 69 7A 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    --.    -.    ..    --..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100111 01101110 01101001 01111010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#103 &#110 &#105 &#122 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0067 006E 0069 007A 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37817380759271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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