Word Finder - recognise

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To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.

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I recognised his face immediately.

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To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.

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The US and a number of EU countries are expected to recognize Kosovo on Monday.

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(or with clause) To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).

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I recognize that my behaviour has been unacceptable.

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To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.

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To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc.

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His services were recognized in a testimonial.

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To review; to examine again.

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To reconnoiter.

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To have the property to bind to specific antigens.

So, how do you recognise a genuine pair when you see them?

Sigismund never saw Sweden again, but he persistently refused to abandon his claims or recognise the new Swedish government; and this unfortunate obstinacy was to involve Poland in a whole series of unprofitable wars with Sweden.

On the 20th of September 1881 Beheran formally accepted Italian protection, and in the following February an Anglo-Italian convention established the Italian title to Assab on condition that Italy should formally recognise the suzerainty of the Porte and of the khedive over the Red Sea coast, and should prevent the transport of arms and munitions of war through the territory of Assab.

With his mercenaries behind him he met with some small successes in his fight for Normandy, but on the 27th of July he and his ally, the emperor Otto IV., met with a crushing defeat at Bouvines at the hands of Philip Augustus, and even the king himself was compelled to recognise that his hopes of recovering Normandy were at an end.

Those who signed it pledged themselves to recognise the Compacts, and to support as archbishop of Prague, John of Rokycan, who had been chosen by the estates in accordance with an agreement made simultaneously with the Compacts, but whom the Church of Rome refused to recognize.

With the old Czechs he refused to recognise the constitution of 1867; he helped to draft the declaration of 1868 and the fundamental articles of 1871, and took a leading part in the negotiations during the ministry of Potocki and Hohenwart.

True, she now agreed to recognise the independence of the Cisalpine, Ligurian, Helvetic and Batavian (Dutch) republics; but the masterful acquisitiveness of the First Consul and the weak conduct of Austrian and British affairs at that time soon made that clause of the treaty a dead letter.