Word Finder - acknowledgment

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The act of acknowledging

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• admission

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The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.

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A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.

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An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.

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the acknowledgment of a favor

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A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.

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the acknowledgment of a wedding invitation

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A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).

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A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.

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acknowledgment of a deed

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The act of a person admitting a child as their own.

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A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.

Gerald nodded an acknowledgment to Alex and then his troubled gaze fell on Carmen.

But later, with the growing claims of the individual and the acknowledgment of these in the religious and intellectual life, both problems, and especially the latter, pressed themselves irresistibly on the notice of religious thinkers, and made it impossible for any conception of the divine rule and righteousness to gain acceptance, which did not render adequate satisfaction to the claims of both problems. To render such satisfaction was the task undertaken by apocalyptic, as well as to vindicate the righteousness of God alike in respect of the individual and of the nation.

In acknowledgment of his energetic and successful services Cunard was, in 1859, created a baronet.

Theorems and formulae are appropriated wholesale without acknowledgment, and a production which may be described as the organized result of a century of patient toil presents itself to the world as the offspring of a single brain.

His most intimate friend was Arthur Hallam, by universal acknowledgment the most remarkable Etonian of his day; but he was not generally popular or even widely known.

Meanwhile, George Muller, while exploring the east coast, obtained from the sultan of Kutei an acknowledgment of Dutch authority, a concession speedily repented by its donor, since the enterprising traveller was shortly afterwards killed.

They had declared themselves a free and independent state under the title of " The Republic of Port Natal and adjacent countries," 1 and sought (September 1840) from Sir George Napier at the Cape an acknowledgment of their independence by Great Britain.

In his own days Aldo's learning won the hearty acknowledgment of ripe scholars.

The rank of provincial capital was bestowed by Ferdinand of Aragon in acknowledgment of the fidelity of Lecce to his cause.

Favourable political circumstances also contributed to this general acknowledgment of Denmark's maritime greatness.

Carlyle's proud spirit of independence made him reject Jeffrey's help as long as possible; and even his acknowledgment of the generosity (in the Reminiscences) is tinged with something disagreeably like resentment.

Relief was forefront in Deidre's mind and the acknowledgment she'd gotten damn lucky that the demon lord favored winning deals over killing mates.

In thus appealing to Newton's candour, Halley obviously wished that some acknowledgment of Hooke should be made.

They include an address of acknowledgment on his admission to the Accademia della Crusca.

The Indreptarea legii, in which Pravila of Vasile was incorporated without acknowledgment, remained the recognized code almost down to 1866.

After some delay, and with manifest reluctance, the Scots complied; their hand was forced by the fact that most of the claimants to the crown had hastened to make the acknowledgment, each hoping thereby to prejudice the English king in his own favor.

Thereupon Edward, to the deep humiliation of the people, sued for another cessation of hostilities, and obtained it by conceding all that Robert asked, save the formal acknowledgment of his kingly title.

All these regions, it must be nated, were to be held for the future free of any homage or acknowledgment of allegiance to an overlord, in perpetuity, and in the manner in which the kings of France had held them.

Having been installed at Nicomedia, he received general acknowledgment after the murder of Carinus.

This is further illustrated in his acknowledgment of the inconceivable that is at the root of our idea of Substance.

Boussingault (1802-1887), he treated the chemistry of life, both plant and animal; this book brought him into conflict with Liebig, who conceived that some of his prior work had been appropriated without due acknowledgment.

Cyril, the president, apparently regarded the subscription of the legates as the acknowledgment of "canonical agreement" with the synod.

In 1866, perhaps chiefly in acknowledgment of his services to transAtlantic telegraphy, Thomson received the honour of knighthood, and in 1892 he was raised to the peerage with the title of Baron Kelvin of Largs.

In this confession there is a national acknowledgment of sin and a recognition of the Exile as a righteous judgment.

Was there tacit acknowledgment of the claims made by, or mere contempt for, the authors?

A defendant who is served with a claim form must file an acknowledgment of service.

I never received any acknowledgment or response to my comments.

Then, after receiving the three packets, the destination device sends an acknowledgment to the source.

Basically when you wish to read the file you " get " it; the SRM returns an acknowledgment containing a request id.

She was sensible that you had never received any proper acknowledgment from herself.

A negative acknowledgment should not be returned to an I_UNLINK.

All applications and notices that are received will receive a written acknowledgment of receipt.

When you have successfully placed your order you will receive an order acknowledgment and a unique username and password.

Even his final apparent acknowledgment of a form of direct complicity he challenged later himself.

Otherwise, the reviews make this conflation without acknowledgment, even in the form of punning.

Gheeraerts clearly intended an erotic frisson, and the lady's smile may convey a tacit acknowledgment of her delight in display.

We welcome, for example, the acknowledgment by the FSA of the ' gray areas ' it knows exists within the FSA handbook.

Yet what is missing in this critique is an acknowledgment that the corporate media never covers the real content of demonstrations.

Also the use of a reliable protocol such as TCP incurs an overhead as the system must wait for an acknowledgment of each packet.

A close paraphrase of another person's work must have an acknowledgment to the source.

The review should not copy or closely paraphrase other work, whether published or unpublished, without due acknowledgment, as this constitutes plagiarism.

Failure to give proper acknowledgment of a source that you have used may be deemed to constitute plagiarism.

Each acknowledgment of England's improvement is wrapped around a spiky jibe which could wound any fragile psyche in Vaughan's team.

One such gesture was personally administering communion to Pinochet in acknowledgment of his complete religious rectitude.

Which leaves the two sextet takes of " Acknowledgment " to beg the question, were they worth all those years of suspense?

A universal service remains the basis of our approach but ensuring universality requires an acknowledgment that every family is different.

This acknowledgment would satisfy the urge for pluralism, but without postmodernism.

In these cases please first check the Acknowledgment page (if there is one) or the title page verso before contacting us.

Their national aspirations had received a contemptuous acknowledgment, when their Temple had been desecrated by the entry of a foreign conqueror.

An assignment which creates the relationship of landlord and tenant between the lessor or lessee and the assignee, must be by deed, but the acceptance by a landlord of rent from a tenant under an invalid assignment may create an implied tenancy from year to year; and similarly payment of rent by a tenant may amount to an acknowledgment of his landlord's title.