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RECOGNISE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority

Example:

We do not recognize your gods

Synonyms:

acknowledge; know; recognise; recognize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "recognise" is one way to...):

accept (consider or hold as true)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perceive to be the same

Synonyms:

recognise; recognize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "recognise" is one way to...):

call back; call up; recall; recollect; remember; retrieve; think (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection)

"Recognise" entails doing...:

know (be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recognise"):

identify (consider to be equal or the same)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be fully aware or cognizant of

Synonyms:

agnise; agnize; realise; realize; recognise; recognize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "recognise" is one way to...):

cognise; cognize; know (be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recognise"):

know (know the nature or character of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 4

Meaning:

Express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for

Example:

We must acknowledge the kindness she showed towards us

Synonyms:

acknowledge; recognise; recognize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "recognise" is one way to...):

give thanks; thank (express gratitude or show appreciation to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recognise"):

appreciate (recognize with gratitude; be grateful for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Express greetings upon meeting someone

Synonyms:

greet; recognise; recognize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "recognise" is one way to...):

accost; address; come up to (speak to someone)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recognise"):

shake hands (take someone's hands and shake them as a gesture of greeting or congratulation)

bob; curtsy (make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect)

salute (greet in a friendly way)

present; salute (recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position)

salute (honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers)

hail; herald (greet enthusiastically or joyfully)

receive; welcome (bid welcome to; greet upon arrival)

say farewell (say good-bye or bid farewell)

bid; wish (invoke upon)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 6

Meaning:

Detect with the senses

Example:

I can't make out the faces in this photograph

Synonyms:

discern; distinguish; make out; pick out; recognise; recognize; spot; tell apart

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

"Recognise" entails doing...:

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recognise"):

resolve (make clearly visible)

discriminate (distinguish)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 7

Meaning:

Grant credentials to

Example:

recognize an academic degree

Synonyms:

accredit; recognise; recognize

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "recognise" is one way to...):

certify; licence; license (authorize officially)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 8

Meaning:

Show approval or appreciation of

Example:

The best student was recognized by the Dean

Synonyms:

recognise; recognize

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "recognise" is one way to...):

appreciate; prize; treasure; value (hold dear)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recognise"):

honor; honour; reward (bestow honor or rewards upon)

rubricate (place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

Oh! My friend, if you had known me as I once was, you would not recognise me in this state of degradation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognise him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She recognised the whole of Lucy in the message, and was very confident that Edward would never come near them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

We’d love to know whether honeyguides have learnt this language-like variation in human signals across Africa, allowing them to recognise good collaborators among the local people living alongside them.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Presently her eye wandered to the other, and she was surprised to recognise in him a certain Mr. Hyde, who had once visited her master and for whom she had conceived a dislike.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The gene therapy treatment, known as the mitochondrially targeted zinc finger-nuclease, or mtZFN, recognises and then eliminates the mutant mitochondrial DNA, based on the DNA sequence differences between healthy and mutant mitochondrial DNA.

(Mitochondrial diseases could be treated with gene therapy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Both vertebrates and invertebrates have the ability to recognise potentially toxic flavours, thereby avoiding poisoning.

(Researchers identify area of the amygdala involved in taste aversion, University of Granada)

Many HAPs are already recognised as carcinogenic, however most of them have yet to be studied.

(Lung damage from agricultural fires probed, SciDev.Net)

However, inflammation in the brain – known as neuroinflammation – has been recognised and linked to many disorders including depression, psychosis and multiple sclerosis.

(Inflammation in the brain linked to several forms of dementia, University of Cambridge)

A glycoprotein with a glycan in the form Glc0-3Man8GlcNAc2 is released from the calnexin cycle, recognised by a mannosidase- like protein EDEM and dislocated from the ER to the cytosol.

(Endoplasmic Reticulum Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)