Word Finder - recognize

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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.

I recognize the molding and cornices.

The security system didn't recognize her thumbprint.

You don't recognize me?

Jenny didn't recognize the address.

How do you recognize him?

Do you recognize it?

In the future, if you don't recognize someone, don't wave at them.

He didn't recognize the hospital room.

You will recognize them by the white ribbon they will wear on the left arm.

I didn't recognize it this afternoon.

But we, thank God, have no need to recognize his genius in order to hide our shame.

He wouldn't recognize it now.

He's intelligent enough to recognize the serious threat.

She doesn't recognize me.

Pierre gazed at the ruins and did not recognize districts he had known well.

She didn't recognize the first man's voice, but the second she did.

Writers of universal history who deal with all the nations seem to recognize how erroneous is the specialist historians' view of the force which produces events.

A snowy night closed upon the world, and in the morning one could scarcely recognize a feature of the landscape.

And recognize we have a life, even if it's only by necessity; the bills keep coming and I get hungry once in a while.

You'd hardly recognize him.

He wondered if Helen would recognize her old playmate.

She is able not only to distinguish with great accuracy the different undulations of the air and the vibrations of the floor made by various sounds and motions, and to recognize her friends and acquaintances the instant she touches their hands or clothing, but she also perceives the state of mind of those around her.

You didn't recognize the handwriting?

Do you recognize when the call comes from the so-called Psychic Tipster?

What's important is that you recognize you are into this thing.

She didn't recognize the voice, but she saw the shadow world.

I recognize you only too well, too well.

She didn't recognize any of the men in the small group.

When walking or riding she often gives the names of the people we meet almost as soon as we recognize them.

It is gratifying my dear, that you are sufficiently astute to recognize my skill and superiority.

She didn't recognize the two men before her, but they were dressed much like the two death dealers that tried to turn her over to Harmony in her old apartment.

Lifting her in his strong arms the way she had come to recognize as a precursor to lovemaking, he headed for their bedroom.

Zherkov had met Dolokhov abroad as a private and had not seen fit to recognize him.

They do not recognize it as a power inherent in heroes and rulers, but as the resultant of a multiplicity of variously directed forces.

But his will--which forms the essence of his life--man recognizes (and can but recognize) as free.

I didn't at first recognize the New Hampshire number but remembered I'd given mine to Detective Jackson.

Then he added, "We recognize it's Norfolk's case—we're just investigat­ing our end as a courtesy."

From the standpoint from which the science of history now regards its subject on the path it now follows, seeking the causes of events in man's freewill, a scientific enunciation of those laws is impossible, for however man's free will may be restricted, as soon as we recognize it as a force not subject to law, the existence of law becomes impossible.

And when she's surrounded with his work, she still doesn't recognize him.

It will passively recognize you by recognizing your face or your voice or your breathing pattern or the pattern of your footsteps or, most likely, your scent.

For if I examine an action committed a second ago I must still recognize it as not being free, for it is irrevocably linked to the moment at which it was committed.

We have an out of state rental car and no one could possibly recognize either of us.

She didn't recognize the voice in her mind and felt the presence of someone—or something—beside her.

You couldn't be a cop for fourteen years and not look death in the face and recognize its gruesome glare.

She didn't recognize any of them.

Hence the terms Utopia and Utopian are also used to denote any visionary scheme of reform or social theory, especially those which fail to recognize defects inherent in human nature.

Denmark was also compelled to recognize, practically, the independence of the dukes of HolsteinGottorp. The Russian War was terminated by the Peace of Kardis (July 2, 1661), confirmatory of the Peace of Stolbova, whereby the tsar surrendered to Sweden all his Baltic provinces - Ingria, Esthonia and Kexholm.

As protest against the action of President P P g Balmaceda, the vice-president of the senate, Senor Waldo Silva, and the president of the chamber of deputies, Senor Ramon Barros Luco, issued a proclamation appointing Captain Jorje Montt in command of the squadron, and stating that the navy could not recognize the authority of Balmaceda so long as he did not administer public affairs in accordance with the constitutional law of Chile.

The death of every bishop was always the signal for violent disputes among the neighbouring feudal states, each of them intriguing to secure the election of its own candidate; but, as stated above, Brabant and Gelderland had at last to recognize the fact of the supremacy of Holland over the see.

It refused, moreover, to recognize the validity of Anglican orders, and consequently to follow the example of the other Old Catholics in establishing intercommunion with the Church of England.