Recognise

Definition: Recognise

Recognise

Verb

1. Show approval or appreciation of; "My work is not recognized by anybody!"; "The best student was recognized by the Dean".

2. Grant credentials to; as of educational institutions.

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".

4. Express greetings upon meeting someone.

5. Express obligation for.

6. Be fully aware or cognizant of.

7. Perceive to be the same.

8. Discern; "His greed knew no limits".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "recognise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

"Recognise" is a common misspelling or typo for: recognize, recognized.

Synonyms: Recognise

Crosswords: Recognise

Its been three days and my mind is clearer, my sperm count is up and I'm able to recognise simple shapes and patterns (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I don't seem to recognise it. What is it (The Spy in Black; writing credit: J. Storer Clouston; Emeric Pressburger)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Creating entrepreneurs : how to recognise and foster them (reference)

• Depression After Childbirth: How to Recognise, Treat, and Prevent Postnatal Depression (reference)

• The antique collector's handbook : how to recognise, collect, and enjoy antiques (reference)

• The TV Vet book for pig farmers: how to recognise and treat common pig ailments (reference)

• Wahab on tourism management : an introduction to the scientific study of tourism management, aimed at those who recognise the rewards of a well managed tourism industry, and who perceive the penalties of mismanagement (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

They recognise that differences of climate, habits, and customs, of economic opportunity and industrial tradition, make strict uniformity in the conditions of labour difficult of immediate attainment. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognise his enemy when the latter actually appeared

The reader would perhaps recognise these two men, if he saw them nearer

Under the sudden glow of a lantern he could recognise the smiling face of a priest

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "recognise": de-recognise.

Afrikaans

herken (recognize). (various references)

Chinese 

认识 (epistemic, realisation, realization, recognised, recognition, recognize, recognized, Recognizing). (various references)

Danish

genkende (recognize). (various references)

Dutch

onderkennen (distinguish, recognize), herkennen (recognize), erkennen (accept, acknowledge, admit, confess, confirm, corroborate, profess, receive, recognize, take, take in). (various references)

Esperanto

rekoni (recognize). (various references)

French

la Haute Autorité reconnait,s'il y a lieu,l'existence d'une telle situation (recognise the existence of such a situation), la décision explicite ou implicite refusant de reconnaître l'existence de la situation ci-dessus visée (an express or implied decision refusing to recognise the existence of the situation referred to above). (various references)

German

eine Entscheidung,die ausdruecklich oder stillschweigend das Vorliegen eines solchen Sachverhalts verneint (an express or implied decision refusing to recognise the existence of the situation referred to above), die Hohe Behörde stellt,falls hierzu Anlass besteht,das Vorliegen eines solchen Sachverhalts fest (if there are grounds for so doing, recognise the existence of such a situation, the High Authority shall). (various references)

Greek 

αναγνωρίζω (acknowledge, admit, appreciate, concede, do justice to, identify, know, recognize). (various references)

Italian

riconoscere (acknowledge, admit, concede, detect, discern, identify, know, own, place, realize, recognize, spot, tell, to recognize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

見知る (to become acquinted with, to know by sight, to recognise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

みしる (to become acquinted with, to know by sight, to recognise). (various references)

Korean 

인식하십시�" (recognize). (various references)

Pig Latin

ecogniseray.(various references)

Portuguese

reconheça (acknowledge, recognize). (various references)

Scottish

aithnich (know). (various references)

Spanish

la decisión explícita o implícita que rehúse reconocer la existencia de la situación antes mencionada (an express or implied decision refusing to recognise the existence of the situation referred to above), la Alta Autoridad reconocerá, si ha lugar, la existencia de tal situación (if there are grounds for so doing, recognise the existence of such a situation, the High Authority shall). (various references)

Swedish

Höga myndigheten skall,om det finns anledning till det,fastslå att det föreligger en sådan situation (if there are grounds for so doing, recognise the existence of such a situation, the High Authority shall), ett beslut som uttryckligen eller underförstått innebär ett förnekande av att ovannämnda situation föreligger (an express or implied decision refusing to recognise the existence of the situation referred to above). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "recognise": recognised, recognises. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: congeries.

-1 letter: coreigns, cosigner, eringoes, erogenic, generics.

-2 letters: cognise, coignes, coiners, congees, congers, coreign, cringes, cronies, encores, eringos, generic, genoise, greisen, ignores, necrose, orceins, recoins, regions, scoring, senecio, signore, sincere, soignee.

-3 letters: censer, censor, cering, cerise, coigne, coigns, coiner, congee, conger, conges, conies, corgis, coring, cosier, cosign, cosine, cringe, crones, encore, eosine, eringo, genies, genres.

+1 letter: concierges, cryogenies, estrogenic, recognised, recognises, recognizes, recoinages.

+2 letters: cinemagoers, consigliere, egocentrics, egocentrism, ensorceling, necrologies, proceedings, recognizers.

+3 letters: bedcoverings, congruencies, copresenting, crescendoing, efflorescing, egocentrisms, eigenvectors, ensorcelling, greenockites, precensoring, recompensing, recondensing, reconfigures, reprocessing, serotonergic.

+4 letters: archegoniates, bioenergetics, clearinghouse, cogenerations, conferencings, convergencies, counterimages, countersigned, crossbreeding, decompressing, geometricians, grouchinesses, gynecocracies, incongruences, nondecreasing, overservicing, preprocessing, progestogenic, recognizances, reconsidering, rediscovering, retrospecting, scenographies, spermatogenic, steroidogenic.