RECOGNIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recognize mean? 

• RECOGNIZE (verb)
  The verb RECOGNIZE has 9 senses:

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

2. be fully aware or cognizant of

3. detect with the senses

4. perceive to be the same

5. grant credentials to

6. express greetings upon meeting someone

7. express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for

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

9. show approval or appreciation of

  Familiarity information: RECOGNIZE used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECOGNIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recognize    ... he / she / it recognizes   
Past simple: recognized   
Past participle: recognized   
-ing form: recognizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

acknowledge; know; recognise; recognize

Context example:

We do not recognize your gods

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

accept (consider or hold as true)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be fully aware or cognizant of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

agnise; agnize; realise; realize; recognise; recognize

Hypernyms (to "recognize" 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 "recognize"):

know (know the nature or character of)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Detect with the senses

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

I can't make out the faces in this photograph

"Recognize" entails doing...:

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

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

resolve (make clearly visible)

discriminate (distinguish)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

Perceive to be the same

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

recognise; recognize

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

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

"Recognize" entails doing...:

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

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

identify (consider to be equal or the same)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

recognition (the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Grant credentials to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

accredit; recognise; recognize

Context example:

recognize an academic degree

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

certify; licence; license (authorize officially)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 6

Meaning:

Express greetings upon meeting someone

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

greet; recognise; recognize

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

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

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

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 7

Meaning:

Express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

acknowledge; recognise; recognize

Context example:

We must acknowledge the kindness she showed towards us

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

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

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

appreciate (recognize with gratitude; be grateful for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 8

Meaning:

Exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate)

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

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

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 9

Meaning:

Show approval or appreciation of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

recognise; recognize

Context example:

The best student was recognized by the Dean

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

appreciate; prize; treasure; value (hold dear)

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

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

 Context examples 

“Fair wind!” I cried in a husky voice I did not recognize as my own.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The researchers focused on 2 of the compounds recognized as safe for humans.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)

A humanized monoclonal antibody recognizing the tumor-specific epitope of mucin-1 (TA-MUC1), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Anti-TA-MUC1 Monoclonal Antibody PankoMab, NCI Thesaurus)

Because I recognized their sentinel when I glanced out of my window.

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

To develop the method, researchers used comprehensive datasets to "train" a deep, or machine, learning algorithm to recognize patterns in complex visual inputs, such as medical images.

(AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer, National Institutes of Health)

Only 10 to 20 percent of recognized human genes have been subjected to such rigorous testing.

(A new role for zebrafish: larger scale gene function studies, NIH)

MoAb 48.7 Fab (fragment antigen binding) recognizes proteoglycan antigen expressed on the cell surface of melanoma cells.

(Monoclonal Antibody 48.7 F(ab), NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes melanoma antigen recognized by T-cells 1 protein, may be involved in the regulation of melanin biosynthesis.

(MLANA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This type of thymoma is usually recognized only after microscopic examination.

(Minimally Invasive Thymoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The program then used deep learning to recognize which patterns of markers were linked to hundreds of different genetic syndromes.

(Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used to Diagnose Rare Disorders with Just A Picture, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)