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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recognize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a recognized qualification (=one that is accepted by people as good)
▪ Trainees can work towards a recognised vocational qualification.
acknowledge/recognize sb’s contribution (=say that you are grateful for what someone has done)
▪ He acknowledged the contribution of many individuals in developing the report.
acknowledge/recognize/accept the existence of sth (=agree that something exists)
▪ They organization finally acknowledged the existence of a problem.
internationally famous/recognized/known etc
▪ an internationally famous sculptor
know/recognize limitations (=know what your qualities or abilities will allow you to do)
▪ Know your limitations, and don't exercise too hard or you'll get injured.
recognize sb’s handwriting
▪ Marcus didn’t recognize the handwriting on the envelope.
recognize/realize the importance of sth
▪ We all recognize the importance of his work.
treated/recognized/accepted etc as such
▪ Birth is a natural process, and should be treated as such.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Reading needs to be recognized as just one more part of your overall plan and pattern of tackling hearing loss.
▪ Third, because the elections were internationally recognized as free and fair, Taylor will have the backing of the international community.
▪ Once a particular kind of stone was recognized as precious it tended to remain so.
▪ Gershwin loved jazz, and he recognized as much as anyone how honest she already was.
▪ Implicitly it is conceptualized in terms of the personal behaviours which individuals indulge and which are well recognized as risk factors for various diseases.
▪ Then, in the nineteenth century, they were treated more fairly, even kindly, because they were recognized as ill.
▪ Like the Israelite prophets, they may not be honoured in their own country but they are recognized as belonging.
▪ But the form as a whole should be recognized as inimical to protestants, especially when pursued in the arena of politics.
internationally
▪ Third, because the elections were internationally recognized as free and fair, Taylor will have the backing of the international community.
▪ Reg and Maggie Green have been recognized internationally for such a generous act.
▪ Recently, John Fagin, an internationally recognized molecular biologist and former genetic engineer from Fairfield, Iowa, made a stand.
▪ Denver overcame his shyness to take on a stage presence that made him internationally recognized.
■ NOUN
fact
▪ I think that it is, and only our identification with the world that is disappearing keeps us from recognizing that fact.
▪ Tallis could recognize this fact even beyond the mask of clay.
▪ The Liberal Democratic Party was recognized to be in fact an ultra-nationalist formation.
▪ Neither did it recognize the fact that Polly was being driven mad.
▪ Butzler was the first scientist to recognize this crucial fact.
▪ Not only the intelligentsia but also conservative officials and the tsar appear to have recognized the fact.
importance
▪ No serious Marxist discussion of class has failed to recognize the importance of divisions within the working class.
▪ They also recognize the importance of national legislation aimed at eradicating torture.
▪ The other was that in defining individual teachers' roles, schools were asked to recognize the importance of job-satisfaction.
▪ The participating States recognize the importance of co-operation in a number of areas in the economic integration process.
▪ Increasingly since then archaeologists have recognized the importance of identifying and accurately recording associations between remains on sites.
▪ An effective coach is interested in people, recognizing their importance and potential.
▪ Both candidates are moderates who believe in market-driven reforms and recognize the importance of public security.
marriage
▪ The truths that are recognized after marriage have very little to do with chamber pots.
▪ The bill also would bar the federal government from recognizing homosexual marriages.
▪ California law does not recognize gay marriages, but state appellate courts have adjudicated gay and lesbian palimony cases.
▪ California now recognizes marriages performed in other states.
▪ No state now recognizes gay marriages.
▪ No state currently recognizes marriages between homosexuals.
need
▪ When siblings are in conflict they need consistent and caring control plus help in recognizing each other's needs and feelings.
▪ Gates recognized this need and will offer training grants as well as funds for machines and software.
▪ Try to recognize your needs, and try to spend time fulfilling them or asking for them.
▪ Libraries will persist in their commitment but will find no funding equal to the recognized dimensions of the need.
▪ They recognize their needs and ask openly and directly for what they want.
▪ Management for years has recognized the need to organize within their own ranks.
▪ Many public libraries recognize this need and their programmes for schoolchildren reflect it.
▪ At Iberian, the dealer initiative members recognized the need to build better teamwork among dealers and dealers' direct reports.
problem
▪ Responsible tour operators have recognized the problem and are doing all in their power to stop it.
▪ Hallinan was expected Monday to call on other prosecutors throughout the country to recognize and address the problem.
▪ The Kazakh government has recognized the problem and has accepted a programme for the construction of appropriate burial sites.
▪ Even in those countries that recognized the problem and tried to solve it, however, the quality of schools varied immensely.
▪ The losses involved in retirement are often either not foreseen, or not recognized as a problem.
▪ Most corporations will wait for explosions before they recognize the problem and do something to respond.
▪ Whilst individual counselling recognizes the uniqueness of human problems, group-based counselling recognizes shared problems.
▪ To their credit, Cindy and George had recognized the problem and were determined not to let that happen.
role
▪ During the course of dissections of cadaver club feet he recognized the role of muscles and tendons rather than bones in this deformity.
▪ But, though more students are taking and being recognized for their leader-ship roles, others still suffer ostracism and self-doubt.
▪ But in recognizing the role of one ancillary, we should not overlook others.
▪ There is also some evidence that the Saka, like the Sarmatians, recognized a role for women in warfare.
▪ Piaget, in turn, fully recognized the role of social factors in intellectual development.
▪ Many other Labour councils recognize this explicit political role.
▪ It will recognize the critical role of that Treaty in ensuring military security and stability.
state
▪ Nevertheless, with the growth in the size and power of the public service state he recognized the dangers of subordination.
▪ A biology professor at San Diego State, she recognized business potential in some of her research.
▪ Federations appear to bond diverse nations into a unified state while still recognizing the different nations' diversity and desire for power.
▪ Several other states recognize permits from some, but not all, issuing states.
▪ Some state laws have explicitly recognized this right.
▪ Marriages performed in one state are routinely recognized by other states.
▪ Knight said traditional weddings would be undermined if gay marriages in other states were recognized in California.
▪ No state now recognizes gay marriages.
value
▪ Ambitious princes began to recognize the value of nationalism for an extension of their own claims, rather than those of popular democracy.
▪ They recognize the value of practical, hands-on education.
▪ This was not necessarily because parents failed to recognize the value of education for their children.
▪ He was grateful to be in a company that recognized the value of education and training for management.
▪ Some pupils did not appear to understand method two but recognized its value when the calculation was to be carried out mentally.
▪ It is for this reason that this Court has recognized the inherent value of free discourse.
▪ Later on Richard was to show beyond all doubt that he recognized the value of careful and methodical preparation.
voice
▪ It was with a little fillip of surprise that Pascoe realized she hadn't recognized his voice.
▪ It recognizes that a voice developed amid inequality does not bespeak inferiority.
▪ It recognizes your voice and then dispenses the money.
▪ Wait, I cried, but I did not recognize my voice.
▪ And now Professor King has produced the computer software to recognize that voice pattern.
▪ She speaks to him; he recognizes her voice and gathers her to him.
▪ It was the social security man, and recognizing his voice I braced myself for what he might say.
▪ He recognized the voice as belonging to the village boss, Gao Jinjiao.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Ambitious princes began to recognize the value of nationalism for an extension of their own claims, rather than those of popular democracy.
▪ Any peahens reading this might begin to recognize their dilemma.
▪ Suddenly, the economic miracle of the past decade began to be recognized for what it was.
▪ I began to recognize the minister because of the way the girls, forgetting or ignoring proper behavior, gathered around him.
▪ For the first time I began to recognize the power of the forces that Laura was summoning to her need.
▪ We have certainly begun to recognize that many workers want these policies and that it pays off for businesses to provide them.
▪ That was when she had begun to recognize the evil.
▪ They discovered just how complex an analytic task they faced when they began to recognize how diverse their subordinates were.
fail
▪ It fails to recognize that child-rearing is both a vital and demanding job which deserves adequate remuneration.
▪ Bruch criticized obesity researchers for failing to recognize that dieting was not only psychologically debilitating but medically simple-minded.
▪ No serious Marxist discussion of class has failed to recognize the importance of divisions within the working class.
▪ Such an approach, though useful, is limited: it fails to recognize the ultimate source of the violence.
▪ Something which she, brought up in a crowded street, could not fail to recognize.
▪ She fails to recognize that getting things done requires a different way of exercising power.
▪ He failed to recognize, or understand, the subtle change in emphasis which had taken place.
▪ Too many initiative leaders fail to recognize and respect that challenge.
refuse
▪ He refused to recognize the triumvirate plan previously proposed by Santa Anna, saying that it was unconstitutional.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Aaron was humming a tune I didn't recognize.
▪ British medical qualifications are recognized in many countries throughout the world.
▪ Carnegie heroes are recognized for trying to save lives while risking their own.
▪ Franklin is a recognized leader in her field.
▪ Her contribution to horticulture was recognized when a new rose was named after her.
▪ I recognize you from somewhere -- don't you work at the bank?
▪ I recognized her from the movies, but she was much taller than I expected.
▪ I can't remember how the tune goes but I'll recognize it when I hear it.
▪ Lisa! I'm sorry -- I didn't recognize you -- you've had your hair cut!
▪ Papua New Guinea was the first country to recognize the new military regime in Fiji.
▪ That security guy never recognizes me. I always have to show him my ID.
▪ The campaign is aimed at helping doctors recognize abuse victims.
▪ The government recognized his bravery in the battle by awarding him the Military Cross.
▪ The U.S. has not recognized the Cuban government since 1961.
▪ The waiter recognized one of his customers as someone he went to school with.
▪ We hadn't seen each other in thirty years, but I recognized her right away.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among these agents, salicylate therapy is the most commonly recognized cause of hypouricemia.
▪ It is time to recognize that San Francisco no longer is the center of the Bay Area.
▪ It needs to be recognized that it is the surface of any street or pavement that provides its essential character.
▪ Public schools are not required to recognize any extracurricular student organizations.
▪ That intellectual heritage came from recognizing the power and truth of the body.
▪ There's no question that Feigl recognized the difficulty of the problem.
▪ They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recognize

Recognize \Rec"og*nize\, v. i. (Law) To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. [Written also recognise.]

Note: In legal usage in the United States the second syllable is often accented.

Recognize

Recognize \Rec"og*nize\ (r[e^]k"[o^]g*n[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recognized (r[e^]k"[o^]g*n[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Recognizing (r[e^]k"[o^]g*n[imac]`z[i^]ng).] [From Recognizance; see Cognition, and cf. Reconnoiter.]

  1. To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

    Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen.
    --Harte.

  2. To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.

  3. To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.

  4. To show appreciation of; as, to recognize services by a testimonial.

  5. To review; to re["e]xamine. [Obs.]
    --South.

  6. To reconnoiter. [Obs.]
    --R. Monro.

    Syn: To acknowledge; avow; confess; own; allow; concede. See Acknowledge.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recognize

early 15c., "resume possession of land," back-formation from recognizance, or else from Old French reconoiss-, stem of reconoistre "to know again, identify, recognize," from Latin recognoscere "acknowledge, recall to mind, know again; examine; certify," from re- "again" (see re-) + cognoscere "know" (see cognizance). Meaning "know again, recall or recover the knowledge of, perceive an identity with something formerly known or felt" first recorded 1530s. Related: Recognized; recognizing.

Wiktionary
recognize

Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context transitive English) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity. 2 (context transitive English) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration. 3 (context transitive English) To acknowledge or consider as something. 4 (context transitive English) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity. 2 (context transitive English) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration. 3 (context transitive English) To acknowledge or consider as something. 4 (context transitive English) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that. Etymology 2

alt. To cognize again. vb. To cognize again.

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WordNet
recognize

  1. v. accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods" [syn: acknowledge, recognise, know]

  2. be fully aware or cognizant of [syn: recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise]

  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" [syn: recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart]

  4. perceive to be the same [syn: recognise]

  5. grant credentials to; "The Regents officially recognized the new educational institution"; "recognize an academic degree" [syn: accredit, recognise]

  6. express greetings upon meeting someone [syn: greet, recognise]

  7. express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for; "We must acknowledge the kindness she showed towards us" [syn: acknowledge, recognise]

  8. exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate)

  9. show approval or appreciation of; "My work is not recognized by anybody!"; "The best student was recognized by the Dean" [syn: recognise]

Wikipedia
Recognize (song)

"Recognize" is a song by Canadian recording artist PartyNextDoor, It was released as his third single from his debut studio album, PartyNextDoor Two on July 15, 2014. The song, was produced by PartyNextDoor himself and features guest vocals from Canadian recording artist Drake.

Usage examples of "recognize".

Roosevelt in a position, in spite of the enormous amount of work which must rest upon him in his own country, to recognize of his own accord all these inner spiritual and mental impressions of other peoples and their governments?

Thus, it by no means believes in an equality of races, but along with their difference it recognizes their higher or lesser value and feels itself obligated to promote the victory of the better and stronger, and demand the subordination of the inferior and weaker in accordance with the eternal will that dominates this universe.

The employed must recognize the necessity of an accumulated fund of capital, and on the other hand the employer must be as anxious to have about him a contented, prosperous community, as to heap up money beyond any reasonable use for it.

All the more clearly will Italy recognize the advisability of confronting the Western powers shoulder to shoulder with Germany.

But he is not ready to tell Botkin or Koss the wildest of his suspicions: the double helix somehow codes not only for its own messenger, but also for the elusive adaptor, the ribosome assembly line, and all the enzymes needed to recognize the adaptor, affix the amino acids, promote the growing chain, and trim the finished proteins.

Momnets later, everyone still in the basket recognized the sensation as their craft ran aground on an oozy surface.

There were several others, all in uniform, whom Allegro did not recognize.

Fully recognized as portentous, the question was exhaustively discussed, with the confident assurances of some matched by the doubts and ambivalence of others, both military and civilian.

In anosognosia the mind is capable of recognizing its own limbs, and also incapable of recognizing that inca anything is wrong.

When, on the way down the street, for instance, impressions are received from a passing form, and a resulting act of apperceiving attention, besides reading meaning into them, awakens a sense of familiarity, the face is recognized as one seen on a former occasion.

It ought, on the contrary, to be applicable, as would be the equivalent power in England or France for instance, to aid and support all recognized objectives of government.

I recognized the little scholar with the shaggy gray beard, crocheted white cap, and drab shirt and pants who had come into the archive that morning.

No expense has been incurred to establish a crop, accidental growth is almost always destroyed by fire because it does not pay to protect it, and if it is not so destroyed it has not yet been accorded the expectation value which the assessor will be obliged to recognize in the early future if he really observes the present law.

Goethe recognized a metamorphosis of the process of anastomosis at a higher level.

She recognized star shaped astrocytes, and the presence of macro phages--the cleanup crew, whose function is to tidy up after infection.