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Recognize

Definitions: Recognize

Recognize

Verb

1. Discern; "His greed knew no limits".

2. Be fully aware or cognizant of.

3. Detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph".

4. Perceive to be the same.

5. Grant credentials to; as of educational institutions.

6. Express greetings upon meeting someone.

7. Express obligation for.

8. Show approval or appreciation of; "My work is not recognized by anybody!"; "The best student was recognized by the Dean".

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

Date "recognize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Recognize

Synonyms: accredit (v), acknowledge (v), agnise (v), agnize (v), discern (v), distinguish (v), greet (v), know (v), make out (v), pick out (v), realise (v), realize (v), recognise (v), tell apart (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Recognize

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Assent

Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.

Attention

Verb: be attentive; Adjective: attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view, remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with; contemplate; (think of); look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to, give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind; take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view; have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make note of, take note of; note.

Discovery

Recognize, realize; verify, make certain of, identify.

Discrimination

Verb: discriminate, distinguish, severalize; recognize, match, identify; separate; draw the line, sift; separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; separate the men from the boys; split hairs, draw a fine line, nitpick, quibble.

Identification

Verb: identify, recognize, match, match up; classify; recall, remember; (memory); find similarity (similarity); put in its proper place, put in its proper niche, place in order (arrangement).

Identity

Treat as the same, render the same, identical; identify; recognize the identity of.

Knowledge

Conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy, appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience.

Memory

Recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look back, trace back, trace backwards; think back, look back upon; review; call upon, recall upon, bring to mind, bring to remembrance; carry one's thoughts back; rake up the past.

Permission

Verb: permit; give permission; Noun: give power; let, allow, admit; suffer, bear with, tolerate, recognize; concede; accord, vouchsafe, favor, humor, gratify, indulge, stretch a point; wink at, connive at; shut one's eyes to.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Recognize

English words defined with "recognize": Acknow, acute, agnosia, All the same, amnesic aphasia, amnestic aphasia, anomia, anomic aphasia, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Anton van Leuwenhoek, appreciatebeget, biochip, bring forthCamisado, Chaim Azriel Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, cold shoulder, Comity of nations, curiously enough, cutdeny, Diagnosticate, discriminate, discriminating, DNA chipengenderfather, flag, Foredeem, funnily enoughgene chip, generate, get, Gideon Algernon MantellHarediidentify, incisive, indiscriminate, interestingly enough, intolerance, IrrecognitionJan Swammerdamkeen, knifelike, know, know apartLeeuwenhoek, LeuwenhoekMalpighi, Mantell, Marcello Malpighi, mothernominal aphasia, nose out, nullificationoddly enoughpenetrating, penetrative, piercing, place, placeablerecognisable, recognizable, Recognizing, Recognosce, repudiatescent out, sharp, sire, smell out, sniff out, snub, strangely enough, Swammerdamtoleranceunapprehensive, unchristianly, unchristlike, UngodWeizmann, worshiper, worshipper. (references)
Specialty definitions using "recognize": adaline, adaptive linear element, anosognosiabispecific antibodies, bury one's head in the sand/toCriticDecorate, Deoxyribonucleases, Type I Site-Specific, Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific, deterministic finite automata string searchEdward R. Madigan U.S. Agricultural Export Excellence Award, Experiencefield circusGymnospermsHandwriting, handwriting recognizerINDUSTRIAL HYGIENISToptic aphasia, optical mark recognitionpeptide 946, perceptual repertoire of the model, POLYSOMNOGRAPHIC TECHNICIAN, polysomnographic technologis, Privileged Matters, Pure AlexiaReceptors, Antigen, Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta, Receptors, Bradykinin, Receptors, Complement, Receptors, Complement 3b, Receptors, Complement 3d, Receptors, Fc, Receptors, Lipoprotein, reserved word, Restriction Enzymesscreen name, Self Tolerance, sensory alexia, stereognosis, stunt box, Sturgeon's LawTRAINING TECHNICIAN, Transposaseudvikling i fødselskontrol, Unix brain damagevisual alexiawarez, word aphasia. (references)
Etymologies containing "recognize": AnagnorisisCognizesusceptible. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Recognize" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (recognize).

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Modern Usage: Recognize

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Something you wouldn't recognize. It's called love. (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi; writing credit: Cindy Davis Hewitt; Donald H. Hewitt)

How would we even recognize Juntao, none of us never saw him. (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

Do you recognize him? (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott)

Something I finally recognize. (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford)

Americans of course don't recognize the convention so it becomes that thing of calling all of their sparkling white champagne, even though by definition they're not. (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Lyrics

Let'em recognize from Longbeach to Roscran ("California Love"; performing artist: 2 PAC)

You would hardly recognize me I'm so glad ("The Sign"; performing artist: Ace Of Base)

When you turn around can you recognize my face? ("Losing Grip"; performing artist: AVRIL LAVIGNE)

I gotta show her that i want her i recognize that she is bad, if i can't have ("There She Goes"; performing artist: Babyface)

Recognize the struggle live it like a thug do ("Life Story"; performing artist: Black Rob)

Clever

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. (references; author: unknown)

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

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Commercial Usage: Recognize

DomainTitle

Books

  • 100 Write-And-Learn Sight Word Practice Pages: Engaging Reproductible Activity Pages That Help Kids Recognize, Write, and Really Learn the Top 100 hi (reference)

  • Bird Song Ear Training Guide: Who Cooks for Poor Sam Peabody? Learn to Recognize the Songs of Birds from the Midwest and Northeast States (reference)

  • Men Who Can't Love: How to Recognize a Commitmentphobic Man Before He Breaks Your Heart (reference)

  • Wisconsin's Natural Communities: How to Recognize Them, Where to Find Them (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Safe in the Street:How to Recognize (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Recognize

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Streptococci are subdivided into groups based on what antibodies recognize their surface antigens. Group D contains five species, S. faecalis, S. faecium, S. durans, S. avium, and S. bovis.Credit: CDC.

Trish Murphy, formerly of NOAA, takes a secchi depth reading to determine water turbidity and how it relates to the ability of the fish to recognize the sampling gillnets.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Can You Recognize The Cocaine Abuser In Your Practice? : Drug Abuse...be part of the solution.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Recognize these "old men" ?--Coaches Alexander, Jones, Warner and Rockne attend dinner of All-American Board of Football.Credit: Library of Congress.

Training high school boys to identify planes. There's no question about these young people's ability to recognize airplanes by their silhouettes. They're learning this and other essential facts of aviation at Weequahic High School, Newark, New Jersey, in.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Familiar Quotations: Recognize

AuthorQuotation

Ann Landers

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Author Unknown

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

Elias Canetti

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Jean De La BruyFre

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Pauline Kael

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Thomas Carlyle

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Recognize

AuthorDateQuotation

Marbury v. Madison

1803

It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it. (reference)

The Emancipation Proclamation

1862

And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. (Abraham Lincoln)

Roe v. Wade

1973

It is unnecessary to decide the injunctive relief issue, since the Texas authorities will doubtless fully recognize the Court's ruling that the Texas criminal abortion statutes are unconstitutional. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Recognize

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

It is heard, and men recognize in Cambronne the old soul of the giants.

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

Neil Gaiman

Benjamin Lassiter was coming to the unavoidable conclusion that the woman who had written A Walking Tour of the British Coastline, the book he was carrying in his backpack, had never been on a walking tour of any kind, and would probably not recognize the British coastline if it were to dance through her bedroom at the head of a marching band, singing 'I'm the British Coastline' in a loud and cheerful voice while accompanying itself on the kazoo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Recognize

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Raccoons are easy to recognize. (references)

Some individuals cannot recognize other family members. (references)

It allows you to recognize friends, read books, and play games. (references)

Business

More and more end-users are beginning to recognize the high quality of U.S. equipment. (references)

Both the Russian government and international organizations recognize this issue as a high priority action. (references)

Bilateral agreements are being sought with those nations that at present do not recognize such acts as crime. (references)

Children

Saudi Arabia

Police officials recognize the problem, but they claim that according to Islam, family members should be taking care of such individuals. (references)

Grenada

Women's organizations and other nongovernmental organizations increased their public awareness efforts to recognize and combat sexual abuse of women and children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Algeria

Islam does not recognize conversion to other faiths at any age. (references)

Economic History

Syria

The United Nations does not recognize this claim. (references)

Cyprus

Turkey does not recognize the Government of Cyprus. (references)

Costa Rica

Nonetheless, business leaders recognize the need for more specialized training. (references)

Human Rights

Gabon

In some areas, minor disputes may be taken to a local chief, but the State does not recognize such decisions. (references)

Philippines

The law provides certain protections for squatters; eviction is often difficult, especially because politicians recognize squatters' voting power. (references)

Tunisia

Marzouki refuses to recognize the authority of the court over what he regards as a freedom of speech issue and consequently has refused to participate in the appeal process. (references)

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

Although indigenous Khasis have been living on these lands for generations, the Government does not recognize their claims of ownership. (references)

Venezuela

Instead they call on the Government to recognize lands traditionally inhabited by them as territories belonging to each respective indigenous group. (references)

Guatemala

The commission dissolved in 1998 without reaching an agreement, but was reinstated in October with the mandate to design a policy to establish, recognize, and protect such areas. (references)

Minorities

Algeria

However, on October 3, Prime Minister Benflis reportedly agreed to recognize the Amazigh language as a national language. (references)

Croatia

A serious and ongoing impediment to the return and reintegration of ethnic Serb refugees is the failure of the Government to recognize or "convalidate" their legal and administrative documents from the period of the 1991-1995 conflict. (references)

Morocco

On April 14, authorities in Fez banned a meeting scheduled to commemorate the anniversary of the cultural and political "Berber Manifesto." The Government also banned the Berber national conference scheduled for June 22 to 24, although it ultimately allowed the conference to be held in Rabat on November 9 to 11. The activists called on the Government to recognize and teach Berber languages; to provide more information about their culture in the press; and to end restrictions on registering Berber names for children. (references)

Political Economy

CHILE

Chile does not recognize the U.S. livestock products inspection system. (references)

THE BAHAMAS

The Industrial Relations Act requires employers to recognize trade unions. (references)

Djibouti

In the accord, the Government agreed to recognize the FRUD as a legitimate political party. (references)

Political Rights

Tanzania

The CUF refused to recognize the election results in Zanzibar, demanded new elections, and boycotted the union and Zanzibar elections. (references)

Somalia

The Somaliland and Puntland administrations do not recognize the results of the Djibouti Conference, nor do several Mogadishu-based factional leaders. (references)

Swaziland

Pressure has been building for several years to modernize the political system, and both the King and the Government recognize that there is a need for political reform, including the drafting of a new constitution and, specifically, a bill of rights. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

Vietnam does not recognize the International Carnet. (references)

Russia

The Russian government does not recognize many international standards such as the ISO-9000 system. (references)

Spain

Regulations also recognize new types of investment organizations such as venture capital funds and companies. (references)

Travel

Denmark

Americans will recognize many U.S. food and other consumer item brands in Danish stores. (references)

Georgia

The U.S. Government does not recognize an independent republic of Abkhazia separate from the Republic of Georgia. (references)

Korea

Every year Korea becomes more and more modern, but it is important to recognize that modern does not equal Western. (references)

Women

Brunei

Islamic religious authorities recognize wife beating as grounds for divorce. (references)

Haiti

Laws governing child support recognize the widespread practice of multiple-father families but rarely are enforced. (references)

Bahrain

The Labor Law does not recognize the concept of equal pay for equal work, and women frequently are paid less than men. (references)

Worker Rights

China

The vast majority of Tibetan Buddhists continue to recognize Gendun Choekyi Nyima as the Panchen Lama. (references)

Bahrain

It does not recognize that trafficking is a problem because foreign workers travel to the country voluntarily. (references)

Swaziland

The law obliges employers to recognize a union when it achieves more than 50 percent membership among employees. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. Joel Frad Bink

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Recognize

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

Even companies recognize the power of family.

John Ashcroft

Well, my view is that it's a great tragedy. I am disappointed, but I also recognize the fact that the Catholic Church has been a tremendous value to this culture.

Rush Limbaugh

The story of the Pilgrims actually begins in the early part of the Seventeenth Century, when the Church of England under King James I was persecuting anyone who didn't recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority.

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

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Speeches: Recognize

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Franklin Pierce

1853-1857Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Private capital and private management are entitled to adequate reward for efficiency, but business must recognize that its reward results from the employment of the resources of the Nation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Art and Science We must also recognize and encourage those who can be pathfinders for the Nation's imagination and understanding.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974My fellow Americans, I am sure you can recognize from what I have said that we really only have two choices open to us if we want to end this war.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981The International Year will give our country the opportunity to recognize the talents and capabilities of our fellow citizens with disabilities.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001I've launched this national initiative on race to help us recognize our common interests and to bridge the opportunity gaps that are keeping us from becoming one America.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Recognize

"Recognize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 76.22% of the time. "Recognize" is used about 2,105 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)76.22%1,6045,178
Lexical Verb (base form)23.78%50012,043
                    Total100.00%2,105N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Recognize

Expressions using "recognize": fail to recognize not to recognize recognize the identity of. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "recognize": de-recognize, re-recognize.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Recognize

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

recognize

31

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14

recognize voice

9

indicator premise recognize

4

avi file recognize

4

allegiance congress pledge recognize

4

recognize speech

4

recognize scarface

3

employee recognize

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Recognize

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

Afrikaan

  

herken (recognise). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

pranoj (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, agree, allow, avouch, buy, concede, confess, countenance, grant, own, permit, receive, take, take in, take on, underwrite, wear), përshëndet (bow, compliment, greet, hail, Herald, hollo, holloa, salaam, salute), përshëndes (bow, compliment, greet, hail, Herald, hollo, holloa, salaam, salute), njoh (acquaint, be familiar with, introduce, know, present), miratoj (accede, accept, adopt, approbate, approve, assent, confirm, consent, countenance, enact, Favor, favour, pass, ratify, root for, sanction, vote in), arsyetoj (descant, dissert, dissertate, expostulate, justify, motivate, ratiocinate, rationalize, reason, reflect, speculate). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ميز (characterize, confer distinction upon, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, favor, favour, grant a special privilege, honor, identify, know, label, make a distinction, mark, notice, observe, perceive, prefer, privilege, realize, segregate, separate, set above others, set apart, set aside, single, single out, stamp), ‏لاحظ (catch sight of, eye, keep an eye on, look at, make out, note, notice, observe, perceive, realize, regard, remark, see, spy, take notice, twig, view), ‏قدر خدمات, ‏وقع على إقرار إلزامي, ‏تعرف (become acquainted, meet, spy out), ‏سلم (accept, admit, agree, allow, commit, consign, deliver, give in, grant, hand over, hierarchy, ladder, postulate, presume, render, resign, rung, salaam, salute, scale, secure, stair, staircase, stairway, submit, transmit, turn in, turn over), ‏إستطلع (explore, probe, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, spy), ‏إعترف بحكومة, ‏إعترف بجريمته, ‏إعترف بالجميل, ‏إعترف (acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, come clean, concede, confess, grant, own, own up, profess, say), ‏أدرك (apprehend, awake, comprehend, feel, follow, get at, observe, overhaul, overtake, penetrate, perceive, pierce, realize, rejoin, see, see daylight, sense, sober up, take, twig, understand), ‏شكر (acknowledgement, gratitude, render, return, thank, thankfulness, thanks, thanksgiving). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

uñaquipaña (to recognize). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разпознавам (discern, distinguish, know, pick out, spot, tell, tell apart), оценявам (appraise, assess, estimate, evaluate, judge, measure, price, put, rate, tariff, value), награждавам (award, bestow, decorate, grace, reward), признавам (accept, accredit, acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, concede, confess, find, homologate, own, profess, vote), приемам като приятел, приемам като познат, приемам (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, assume, buy, concede, cotton, embrace, enrol, enroll, entertain, grant, induct, meet, postulate, premise, purchase, receive, see, stomach, take up, uphold, yield), познавам (be familiar with, cognize, guess, know, tell), давам думата на. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

認得 (know), 認出 (recognition), 辨認 (identify), (distinguish), 认识 (epistemic, realisation, realization, recognise, recognised, recognition, recognized, Recognizing), 承認 (to acknowledge, to admit). (various references)

   

Czech

  

uznat (accept, acknowledge, admit, avow, concede, confess, place), poznat (experience, identify, know, learn, meet, taste), připustit (acknowledge, admit, agree, concede, grant, permit, receive). (various references)

   

Danish

  

genkende (recognise). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

als waarheid aannemen (acknowledge), agnosceren (acknowledge). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

rekoni (recognise), agnoski (acknowledge). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

viðurkenna (accept, acknowledge, appreciate, approve, receive, take, take in), kenna aftur. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تصدیق کردن (Acknowledge, Admit, Affirm, Authenticate, Aver, Certify, Concede, Confirm, Establish, Grant, Justify, Rubberstamp, Testify), تشخیص دادن (Assess, Discern, Distinguish, Espy, Judge, Tell), شناختن (Identify, Know, Notice), برسمیت شناختن (Legalize). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tuntea (be acquainted, be acquainted with, feel, know, sense), tunnustaa (acknowledge, admit, confess, make a confession, own, profess, to confess, to make a confession), tunnistaa (identify), tiedostaa, oivaltaa (perceive, see), myöntää (acknowledge, admit, affirm, allow, assent, concede, grant, say yes), hyväksyä (accept, acknowledge, admit, approve, pass, sanction). (various references)

   

French

  

reconnaître (recce, research). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

erkenne. (various references)

   

German

  

anerkennen (accept, acclaim, acknowledge, admit, allow, appreciate, confess, for a long time, homologate, honor, honour, own, praise, profess, respect, to recognize), wiedererkennen, erkennen (appreciate, appreciation, detect, discern, discover, identify, know, make out, perceive, realize, see, spot, to detect, to discern, to realize, trace, understand). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γνωρίζω (acquaint, conscious of, know, wit), αναγνωρίζω (acknowledge, admit, appreciate, concede, do justice to, identify, know, recognise). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לז"ות (identify, place, spot), ל"כיר (ascertain, find out, know, make out, realize, spot, tell, understand), ל"בחין (discern, discriminate, know, make out, notice, observe, perceive, spot, spy, tell). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ráismer (identify, to identify, to recognize sy's tread), megismer (cognize, Ken, to come to know), felismer (distinguish, identify, perceive, to awake to, to identify, to peg, to perceive, to pick out, to recognize), elismer (acknowledge, admit, avow, concede, to acknowledge, to admit, to approve of, to avow, to confess, to recognize), elfogad (accept, acknowledge, adapt, adopt, receive, take, take in, to adopt, to pass, to receive, to take for granted, to take from). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengenal (conversant, ken, know), mengakui (acknowledge, admit, avow, concere), kenal. (various references)

   

Irish

  

aithneoidh, aithin. (various references)

   

Italian

  

riconoscere (acknowledge, admit, concede, detect, discern, identify, know, own, place, realize, recognise, spot, tell, to recognize). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

認める  (to appreciate, to approve, to recognize), 認める (to admit, to appreciate, to approve, to notice, to recognize, to write up), 面忘れ (failure to recognize someone), 見逸れる (to fail to recognize, to overlook), 見違い (failing to recognize, mistaking for), 見覚える (to recognize, to recollect, to remember), 見忘れる (to fail to recognize, to forget), 見分ける (to distinguish, to identify, to recognize), 知らぬ" (feigned ignorance, pretending not to recognize), 人違え (mistaken identity, person so changed that it's hard to recognize him), 気づく (to become aware of, to notice, to perceive, to realize, to recognize), 気付く (to become aware of, to notice, to perceive, to realize, to recognize). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おもわすれ (failure to recognize someone), そしらぬかお (feigned ignorance, pretending not to recognize), きづく (to become aware of, to notice, to perceive, to realize, to recognize), ひとちがえ (mistaken identity, person so changed that it's hard to recognize him), みおぼえる (to recognize, to recollect, to remember), みそれる (to fail to recognize, to overlook), みわすれる (to fail to recognize, to forget), みわける (to distinguish, to identify, to recognize), みとめる (to admit, to appreciate, to approve, to notice, to recognize), みちがい (failing to recognize, mistaking for). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

인식하십시" (recognise). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cur enney er (apprehend, apprehension, identify), cur enn er (pick out). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

rekonosé (acknowledge, admit, confess, profess). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecognizeray

   

Polish

  

rozpoznać, uznać. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

reconhecer (accredit, acknowledge, admit, ascertain, avouch, avow, cognize, concede, confess, establish, feel, halloween, honor, honour, identify, kennel, know, notice, own, place, place an embargo on, profess, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, take note, to recognize). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

reconhecer (to recognize). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

recunoaşte (acknowledge, adjudge, admit, allow, avouch, avow, avow oneself, concede, confess, explore, feel, homologate, know, own, remember), vedea (behold, catch sight of, consider, descry, distinguish, do, find, get a peep, happen, notice, observe, perceive, realize, see, spy, stand by, understand), identifica (detect, identify, spot), fixa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, affix, anchor, appoint, arrange, arrest, ascertain, assess, assign, attach, attune, bed, bind, bond, brace, clamp, clasp, define, determine, dog, establish, fasten, find, fit, fix, hitch, immobilize, impact, imprint, indicate, ingrain, lay, make fast, Mount, nail, nail down, name, nominate, pin, pin down, place, put on, regulate, schedule, secure, settle, stamp, state, stick, stiffen, stipulate, strengthen, tie, trace, tune), desluşi (discern, discover, distinguish, elucidate, explain, interpret, read, riddle, unravel), da cuvântul, cunoaşte (acquaint oneself with, be acquainted with, Ken, know, know how, meet, possess, see, taste). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

reconuscher (to recognize). (various references)

   

Romany

  

penjar v (to recognize). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

узнавать (cognize, learn, learnt). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

raspoznati (discern, tell apart), priznati (accord, acknowledge, admit, avow, cede, cognize, confess, disbosom, grant, own up), prepoznati, poznati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reconocer (accredit, acknowledge, admit, agree, allow, avouch, avow, check up, clarify, face, inspect, know, notice, own, place, spot, spy out, survey, taste, tell). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

känna igen (identify, ken, know, spot, tell), erkänna (acknowledge, admit, admit to, allow, avouch, avow, confess, own, receive, to confess, to confess to be in the wrong, to make a confession). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tanımak (acknowledge, affiliate, be acquainted with, be recognizant of, charter, get to know, identify, Ken, know, legitimatize, legitimize, own, spot), takdir etmek (admire, appreciate, esteem, estimate, go for, ordain, pay tribute, predestinate, predestine, prize, regard), söz hakkı tanımak, onaylamak (accept, acknowledge, affirm, approve, attest, authorise, authorize, be recognizant of, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, countersign, endorse, give countenance to, grant, hear, hold with, homologate, indorse, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lend countenance to, o.k., ok, okay, ratify, sanction, smile on, stamp, subscribe, sustain, to confirm, uphold, validate, verify, visa, vise, vouch, witness), kabul etmek (accede, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, affiliate, agree, allow, approve, assent, avow oneself, be sold on, certify, consent, enfranchise, enrol, fall in with, Favor, favour, go along with, grant, have, honor, honour, own, receive, regard as, say yes, settle for, sustain, take, take in, thole, turn thumbs up on, witness), itiraf etmek (acknowledge, admit, allow, avouch, avow, avow oneself, beg, come clean, confess, own, own up, profess, stand in a white sheet, unbosom, unburden), farketmek (become aware of, catch sight, descry, detect, discern, discover, distinguish, espy, know, make a difference, make out, note, notice, observe, perceive, realize, remark, see, take notice), farkına varmak (awake, awake to, awaken, be sensible of, become aware of, discern, get wise to, notice, realize, take notice, take stock of, wake to, waken), ayırt etmek (contradistinguish, contradistinguish from, descry, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, individuate, know, pick out, separate, spot, tell, tell apart, tell the difference). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

ykrar etmek, tanamak (know somebody). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

усвідомлювати (acknowledge, apperceive, appreciate, be aware of, be conscious of, figure out, know, sense, understand), упізнавати, визнавати (accept, account, acknowledge, admit, allow, avouch, avow, confess, declare, own). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

adnabod (know). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Recognize

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

accognoscere, agnita, agnitis, agnitum, agnitus, agnoscant, agnoscar, agnoscat, agnosce, agnoscebam, agnoscebant, agnoscendum, agnoscent, agnoscentes, agnoscere, agnoscet, agnoscetur, agnoscit, agnoscitur, agnosco, agnoverunt, agnovi, agnovimus, agnovisset, agnovit, cognoscere, deprehendere, deprehenderit, deprehendi, deprehendisset, deprehenditur, deprehensa, deprehensam, deprehensus, noscentur, noscetur, noscitur, recognoscere, recognoscit, recognovit. (various references)

Old English450-1100

oncnawan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Recognize

Derivations

Words beginning with "recognize": recognized, recognizer, recognizers, recognizes. (additional references)

Words containing "recognize": unrecognized. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Recognize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reckognize, recogni, recognise, recogniz, recongize, recongnize, reco'nise, reconize, reconose, recoqnize, regocnize. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Recognize"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "recognize" (pronounced re"kugnī'z)
3-n ī' zagonize, aluminize, antagonize, balkanize, carbonize, colonize, communize, demonize, disorganize, euthanize, fraternize, galvanize, harmonize, hellenize, homogenize, humanize, immunize, ionize, ironize, lionize, mechanize, modernize, organize, patronize, reorganize, revolutionize, scrutinize, suburbanize, synchronize, unionize, urbanize, westernize, womanize.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Recognize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: cognizer, erogenic.

-2 letters: cognize, coreign, cozener, generic, grecize, zeroing.

-3 letters: cering, coigne, coiner, congee, conger, coring, cozier, cringe, encore, eringo, ignore, orcein, recoin, region, rezone, zinger, zircon.

-4 letters: coign, conge, corgi, cozen, cozie, crone, croze, genic, genie, genre, genro, giron, goner, green, groin, incog, irone, nicer, niece, orcin, orgic, recon, reign, renig, zoner.

-5 letters: cere, cero, cine, cion, cire, coin, coir, cone, coni, core, corn, eger, ergo, erne, geez, gene, gien, girn, giro, goer, gone, gore, gree, grin, icon, inro, iron, nice, noir, nori, ogee, ogre, once, rein, rice, ring, zein, zero, zinc, zing, zoic, zone, zori.

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

+1 letter: recognized, recognizer, recognizes.

 

+2 letters: recognizers.

 

+3 letters: recognizable, recognizance, unrecognized.

 

+4 letters: electrolyzing, recognizances.

 

+5 letters: reflectorizing, unrecognizable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Recognize


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

52 65 63 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)

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

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

01010010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01100111 01101110 01101001 01111010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0063 006F 0067 006E 0069 007A 0065

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