recognise
See also: re-cognise
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛkənaɪz/, /ˈɹɛkəɡnaɪz/
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- (Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɹekənɑɪz/, /ˈɹekəɡnɑɪz/
Verb
[edit]recognise (third-person singular simple present recognises, present participle recognising, simple past and past participle recognised)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of recognize.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
- “[…] 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. […]”
- 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly[2], volume 189, number 3, archived from the original on 18 February 2022, page 21:
- 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.
- 2019 February 19, “Lightsaber duelling registered as official sport in France”, in The Guardian[3], archived from the original on 8 November 2020:
- 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.
- 2025 March 5, Richard Wilcock, “In defence of the train drivers”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 33:
- "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.