Word Finder - recognized

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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.

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To cognize again

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Notable; distinguished; honored.

Dean recognized the man but didn't know his name.

I recognized your Jeep.

She recognized Pierre's voice.

Bolkonski recognized Prince Repnin whom he had met in Petersburg society.

I bumped into him and we recognized each other and had a cup of coffee.

We have recognized you!

She recognized the surroundings.

When Dean saw the flashing lights behind him he was startled until he recognized the white Chevy Blazer, the sheriff's car, and his reaction turned from concern to a smile.

She saw someone waiting for her in the center of the in-between world and recognized Rhyn.

Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, Smolyaninov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an acquaintance--he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor.

While our employment hampered our work with Howie, we all recognized our need to continue our day to day lives.

He recognized the building via a computer image Betsy provided.

His tone was unassuming, but his gaze was intent, as if he were trying to gauge if she recognized him or not.

When she reached the crest, she recognized the sight before her.

Had they recognized her?

Passing a cornfield the other day, close by a hat and coat on a stake, I recognized the owner of the farm.

Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not the Rhetor but Pierre's sponsor, Willarski, whom he recognized by his voice.

Glinka, the editor of the Russian Messenger, who was recognized (cries of "author! author!" were heard in the crowd), said that "hell must be repulsed by hell," and that he had seen a child smiling at lightning flashes and thunderclaps, but "we will not be that child."

Giddon had barely left the yard on Diablo and Lisa instantly recognized it as a chance to investigate the building.

He recognized the grandson as the victim of the earlier abduction on which he'd reported.

She recognized tips came in all over the country; giving rise to her feeling there might be many different tipsters.

He looked tired after the talk, and there was a note in his voice she recognized as caution.

He recognized the procedure but hadn't heard of it being used since before his brother, Darian, had died thousands of years ago.

When I next saw her she was a formless heap of cotton, which I should not have recognized at all except for the two bead eyes which looked out at me reproachfully.

Nicholas immediately recognized Princess Mary not so much by the profile he saw under her bonnet as by the feeling of solicitude, timidity, and pity that immediately overcame him.

And now without thinking about it he had found that peace and inner harmony only through the horror of death, through privation, and through what he recognized in Karataev.

She recognized this trait and would accept rules she herself would never be able to make.

She felt his body heat from the short distance between them and recognized his scent from the sheets.

It was recognized as the flu, although records describe conditions which were highly likely to have been polio.

She seemed to think at first that the children all belonged to the visiting ministers; but soon she recognized some little friends among them, and I told her the ministers didn't bring their children with them.

Howie thought he recognized the Chicago skyline in the distance but it was too far away to tell.

I hardly recognized him.

Rostov looked inimically at Pierre, first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the husband of a beauty, and in a word--an old woman; and secondly because Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized Rostov and had not responded to his greeting.

He wasn't even being recognized for his abilities.

She recognized the petite blonde, who wrenched open the door and ran.

She recognized Damian, Darian, Jonny, the woman who accompanied Jonny, and several others.

She recognized Damian and Darian as they neared and crept closer to Jule at the sight of the strange man with red glowing eyes.

The rider, whose figure seemed familiar to Rostov and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostov instantly recognized his lamented and adored monarch.

Pierre now recognized in his friend a need with which he was only too familiar, to get excited and to have arguments about extraneous matters in order to stifle thoughts that were too oppressive and too intimate.

They feared Napoleon, recognized his strength and their own weakness, and frankly said so.

Standing among the crowd of peasants, Pierre recognized several acquaintances among these notables, but did not look at them--his whole attention was absorbed in watching the serious expression on the faces of the crowd of soldiers and militiamen who were all gazing eagerly at the icon.

After they had gone Pierre approached Prince Andrew and was about to start a conversation when they heard the clatter of three horses' hoofs on the road not far from the shed, and looking in that direction Prince Andrew recognized Wolzogen and Clausewitz accompanied by a Cossack.

It would not take place because the commanders not merely all recognized the position to be impossible, but in their conversations were only discussing what would happen after its inevitable abandonment.

He recognized them by the handwriting and opened Sonya's first.

In the corporal's changed face, in the sound of his voice, in the stirring and deafening noise of the drums, he recognized that mysterious, callous force which compelled people against their will to kill their fellow men--that force the effect of which he had witnessed during the executions.

The captain was also in marching kit, and on his cold face appeared that same it which Pierre had recognized in the corporal's words and in the roll of the drums.

Petya recognized the sound of Russian voices and saw the dark figures of Russian prisoners round their campfires.

In the dark Petya recognized his own horse, which he called "Karabakh" though it was of Ukranian breed, and went up to it.

Looking more closely Pierre recognized the blue-gray dog, sitting beside the soldier, wagging its tail.

Denisov, who had come out of the study into the dancing room with his pipe, now for the first time recognized the old Natasha.