| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To admit, recognize, avow, recognise or concede.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To know. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To examine, explore or investigate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To realize, see or discern. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To say or tell. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To authorize, allow or accredit. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To accept, agree, assume or receive.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb acknowledge.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (acknowledge) | 1. Declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten".[Wordnet]. 2. Report the receipt of; "The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper".[Wordnet]. 3. Express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with; "He never acknowledges his colleagues when they run into him in the hallway"; "She acknowledged his complement with a smile"; "it is important to acknowledge the work of others in one's own writing".[Wordnet]. 4. Express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for; "We must acknowledge the kindness she showed towards us".[Wordnet]. 5. Accept as legally binding and valid; "acknowledge the deed".[Wordnet]. 6. 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".[Wordnet]. 7. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.[Websters]. 8. To own or recognize in a particular character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.[Websters]. 9. To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter.[Websters]. 10. To own as genuine; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledgea deed.[Websters]. 11. Base verb from the following inflections: acknowledging, acknowledged, acknowledges, acknowledger, acknowledgers, acknowledgingly and acknowledgedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being validating.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being responsive. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being affirmative. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being discerning.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ACKNOWLEDGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ACKNOWLEDGING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Owning; confessing; approving; grateful; but the latter sense is a gallicism, not to be used.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of acknowledge. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: ACKNOWLEDGING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Acknowledging device | Energy | A manually operated electric switch or pneumatic valve by means of which, on a locomotive equipped with an automatic train stop or train control device, an automatic brake application can be forestalled, or by means of which, on a locomotive equipped with an automatic cab signal device, the sounding of the cab indicator can be silenced. (references) | |
| Acknowledging ones gayness | MultiLingual Slang | English (out of the closet). (references) | |
| Acknowledging time | Energy | As applied to an intermittent automatic train stop system, a predetermined time within which an automatic brake application may be forestalled by means of the acknowledging device. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: acknowledge
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| ACKNOWLEDGE | English | Acquisition of Knowledge | N/A | |
| ACK | English | Acknowledge character | N/A | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: acknowledge | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Acknowledge character | 3 | Acknowledge character | 3 | |
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