recognize

Meaning

Verb

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

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French reconoistre, from Old French reconoistre, from Latin recognoscere, first attested in the 16th century. Displaced native English acknow, compare German erkennen and Swedish erkänna.
• From re- + cognize.