Definitions
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- verb transitive To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.
- verb transitive To
acknowledge the existence or legality of something.; treat as worthy of consideration or valid. - verb transitive To acknowledge or
consider as something. - verb transitive To realise or discover the nature of something;
apprehend quality in; realise oradmit that. - verb transitive To give an
award .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb show approval or appreciation of
- verb detect with the senses
- verb be fully aware or cognizant of
- verb grant credentials to
- verb express greetings upon meeting someone
- verb express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for
- verb accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
- verb perceive to be the same
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Examples
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One thing Google has to recognise is when your thinking of rolling out this across the enterprise you have to take into account the needs of all users – and right not I can imaging lots of people in sales and marketing finding gmail unusable due to threading.
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What Baggini also fails to recognise is that he; s part of the performance.
Are You A Communitarian ? Newmania 2008
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One thing Google has to recognise is when your thinking of rolling out this across the enterprise you have to take into account the needs of all users – and right not I can imaging lots of people in sales and marketing finding gmail unusable due to threading.
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What we have to recognise is that we have a real opportunity to cure infectious diseases in the developing world.
Medpundit 2007
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What do-good moron bottom-feeders like you fail to recognise is the fact that there is no difference between stealing physical money and stealing company or customer resources and/or time which equates to money.
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Let me conclude by saying that the most important issue that we have to recognise is two-fold.
Privacy and the Media: Two Perspectves - What Does the Public Have a Right to Know 1999
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But if what we remember we hold it in memory, yet, unless we did remember forgetfulness, we could never at the hearing of the name recognise the thing thereby signified, then forgetfulness is retained by memory.
The Confessions 1999
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I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
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But if what we remember we hold it in memory, yet, unless we did remember forgetfulness, we could never at the hearing of the name recognise the thing thereby signified, then forgetfulness is retained by memory.
The Tenth Book 1909
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a little African cat mini, which you may recognise from the tease I showed the other day.
Busy day katelnorth 2008
bilby commented on the word recognise
"First of all I'd like to thank all the countries that have recognised Kosovo. Many countries are in the process of recognising us. I respect how other countries operate. Most countries have promised to recognise Kosovo, but I can't give an exact date because the decisions are taken by those countries and are based on national interests."
- Hashim Thaçi, "Serbia realises that Kosovo is a state", swissinfo.org, 16 Feb 2009.
February 18, 2009