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rec·og·nize

(rĕk′əg-nīz′)

tr.v. rec·og·nized, rec·og·niz·ing, rec·og·niz·es

1. To know to be something that has been perceived before: recognize a face.

2. To know or identify from past experience or knowledge: recognize hostility.

3. To perceive or show acceptance of the validity or reality of: recognizes the concerns of the tenants.

4. To permit to address a meeting: The club's president recognized the new member.

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

6. To show awareness of; approve of or appreciate: recognize services rendered.

7. To admit the acquaintance of, as by salutation: recognize an old friend with a cheerful greeting.

8. Law To enter into a recognizance.

9. Biology To exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate, for example).

[Middle English recognisen, to resume possession of land, alteration (influenced by Medieval Latin recognizāre, to recognize) of Old French reconoistre, reconoiss-, to know again, from Latin recognōscere : re-, re- + cognōscere, to get to know; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.]

rec′og·niz′a·ble adj.

rec′og·niz′a·bly adv.

rec′og·niz′er n.

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Adv.

recognizably - to a recognizable degree; "he was recognizably slimmer now"

unrecognisable, unrecognizably - beyond recognition; in an unrecognizable manner; "he had unrecognizably aged"

Translations

zjistitelně

felismerhetõen

òekkjanlega

zjavne

tanınabilecek şekilde

recognizably

[ˌrekəgˈnaɪzəblɪ] ADV it is recognizably different/better → se ve a las claras que es diferente/mejor

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recognizably

[ˌrɛkəgˈnaɪzəbli] recognisably adv → manifestement

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recognizably

adv (= perceptibly) → offensichtlich, erkennbar

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recognizably

[ˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzəblɪ] adv → riconoscibilmente

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recognize,

recognise

(ˈrekəgnaiz) verb

1. to see, hear etc (a person, thing etc) and know who or what that person, thing etc is, because one has seen or heard him, it etc before. I recognized his voice/handwriting; I recognized him by his voice.

2. to admit, acknowledge. Everyone recognized his skill.

3. to be willing to have political relations with. Many countries were unwilling to recognize the new republic.

4. to accept as valid, well-qualified etc. I don't recognize the authority of this court.

ˌrecogˈnizable, ˌrecogˈnisable adjective

(negative unrecognizable).

ˌrecogˈnizably, ˌrecogˈnisably adverb

ˌrecogˈnition (-ˈniʃən) noun

the act or state of recognizing or being recognized. They gave the boy a medal in recognition of his courage; I said hello to him but he showed no recognition.

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That is to say, the occurrence might have varied within certain limits without causing our image to vary recognizably. To arrive at the general it is necessary that we should be able to contrast it with a number of relatively precise images or words for particular occurrences; so long as all our images and words are vague, we cannot arrive at the contrast by which the general is defined.

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Yet McGregor's Swede feels neither fish nor fowl, a bland everyman who's neither recognizably Semitic nor recognizably all-American, and this fundamental miscasting sets the tone for the rest of the film.

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He asks how particular conceptions of death influence and respond to corresponding conceptions of human virtue and perfection, and seeks his answer in the account of martyrdom given by Thomas Aquinas, In particular, he questions whether one can plausibly claim martyrdom to be an act of virtue in any recognizably Aristotelian sense.

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The music of this opera seria is charming and recognizably Rossini, although the story is quite complex.

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Koonsian dread often arrives in sculptures depicting objects in uncanny likeness, transforming recognizably cheap, everyday things into metaphors about anxiety and death.