recognise

CEFRB1

/ˈɹɛkənaɪz/

verb

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01
verb
To know someone or something because you have seen it before.
02
verb
Extra detail
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of recognize.

Examples

Can you recognise the person in this picture?
It is not until we lose our health that we recognise its blessing.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 2
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 4

Also pronounced

/ˈɹekənɑɪz/

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In context

I didn't recognise the tune.
“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”

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After many years, she could still blank her old friend's face in the crowd.

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“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.
2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2022, page 21
The country’s fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the weapon from George Lucas’s space saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.
2019 February 19, “Lightsaber duelling registered as official sport in France”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020
"When you think about it, who wants to drive 300 tonnes of steel at 125mph in the pitch black at four o'clock in the morning?" Whelan says this with a wry smile, however, recognising that these are exactly the sort of things that train drivers love about their jobs.
2025 March 5, Richard Wilcock, “In defence of the train drivers”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 33

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After many years, she could still blank— her old friend's face in the crowd.

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After many years, she could still blank her old friend's face in the crowd.