recognize

Bedeutung

1. To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
2. To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
3. To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).
4. To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.
5. To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc.
6. (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
7. (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
8. To have the property to bind to specific antigens.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈɹɛk.əɡ.naɪz/

Etymologie

Borrowed from Middle French reconoistre, from Old French reconoistre, from Latin recognoscere, first attested in the 16th century. Displaced native English acknow (“to recognize, perceive as”), compare German erkennen and Swedish erkänna. Latin had rare recognizare (“to try by jury”).

Sätze

" Learn to recognize omens , and follow them ," the old king had said .

"Lernen Sie, Vorzeichen zu erkennen und ihnen zu folgen", hatte der alte König gesagt.