transitive verb. To know to be something that has been perceived before.

transitive verb. To know or identify from past experience or knowledge.

transitive verb. To perceive or show acceptance of the validity or reality of.

transitive verb. To permit to address a meeting.

transitive verb. To accept officially the national status of as a new government.

transitive verb. To show awareness of; approve of or appreciate.

transitive verb. To admit the acquaintance of, as by salutation.

transitive verb. To enter into a recognizance.

transitive verb. To exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate, for example).

To cognize again.

To know (the object) again; recall or recover the knowledge of; perceive the identity of with something formerly known or in the mind.

To avow or admit a knowledge of, with approval or sanction; acknowledge or accept formally: as, to recognize one as ambassador; to recognize a government as an independent sovereignty or as a belligerent.

To indicate one's acquaintance with (a person) by a salute: as, to pass one without recognizing him.

To indicate appreciation of: as, to recognize merit.

To review; reëxamine; take cognizance of anew.

To acknowledge; admit or confess as an obligation or duty.

=Syn. 2–4. Recognize, Acknowledge. The essential difference between these words lies in the difference between letting in to one's own knowledge (recognize) and letting out to other people's knowledge (acknowledge). Hence the opposite of recognize is disown or some kindred word; that of acknowledge is conceal or deny. To recognize an obligation and to acknowledge an obligation differ precisely in this way. The preacher may be able to make a man recognize, even if he cannot make him acknowledge his need of moral improvement. See acknowledge.

In law, to enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal: as, A. B. recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. Also spelled recognise.

intransitive verb. To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal.

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

transitive verb. To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment

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

transitive verb. To show appreciation of.

transitive verb. To review; to reëxamine.

transitive verb. To reconnoiter.

verb. To cognize again.

verb. To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.

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

verb. To acknowledge or consider as something.

verb. To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.

verb. To give an award.

verb. show approval or appreciation of

verb. express greetings upon meeting someone

verb. be fully aware or cognizant of

verb. perceive to be the same

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

verb. express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for

verb. detect with the senses

verb. grant credentials to

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

"I think that the important thing to recognize is that both sides of the political spectrum are primarily bound together by a sense of moral superiority over the other."

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