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Definitions: Recognize |
RecognizeVerb1. 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: RecognizeSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. |
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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) | |
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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. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Good 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 | 1945-1953 | Private 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 | 1963-1969 | Art and Science We must also recognize and encourage those who can be pathfinders for the Nation's imagination and understanding. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | My 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 | 1977-1981 | The International Year will give our country the opportunity to recognize the talents and capabilities of our fellow citizens with disabilities. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I'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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 76.22% | 1,604 | 5,178 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.78% | 500 | 12,043 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,105 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
recognize | 31 |
allegiance congress officially pledge recognize | 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. | |
| 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), 辨 (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 rozpoznać, uznać. (various references) 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) reconhecer (to recognize). (various references) 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) reconuscher (to recognize). (various references) penjar v (to recognize). (various references) узнавать (cognize, learn, learnt). (various references) raspoznati (discern, tell apart), priznati (accord, acknowledge, admit, avow, cede, cognize, confess, disbosom, grant, own up), prepoznati, poznati. (various references) 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) 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) 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) ykrar etmek, tanamak (know somebody). (various references) 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) adnabod (know). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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 English | 450-1100 | oncnawan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "recognize": recognized, recognizer, recognizers, recognizes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "recognize": unrecognized. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "recognize" (pronounced re"kugnī'z) |
| 3 | -n ī' z | agonize, 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 6F 67 6E 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. --- --. -. .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01100111 01101110 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c o g n i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 006F 0067 006E 0069 007A 0065 |
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