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Recognition   /rˌɛkəgnˈɪʃən/  /rˌɛkɪgnˈɪʃən/   Listen
Recognition

noun
1.
The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged.  Synonyms: acknowledgement, acknowledgment.  "She seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own"
2.
The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering.  Synonym: identification.  "Experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer"
3.
Approval.  Synonym: credit.  "He was given credit for his work" , "Give her credit for trying"
4.
Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly.  Synonyms: realisation, realization.  "A sudden recognition of the problem he faced" , "Increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases"
5.
(biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape.
6.
The explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country.
7.
An acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid.
8.
Designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body.



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"Recognition" Quotes from Famous Books



... altercation, made use of an undignified expression before Lord Thurlow; but before his lordship could take notice of it the counsel immediately apologised, saying, "My lord, I beg your lordship's pardon. I really forgot for the moment where I was." A silent recognition of the apology would have made the counsel feel his position more keenly, but the Chancellor could not let such an opportunity pass and immediately flashed out: "You thought you were in your own Court, I presume," alluding to a Welsh judgeship ...
— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton
... to be no recognition of peculiar wisdom and skill on the part of her son, though the friends gathered were full of ...
— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer
... betraying the cause he had espoused. There, as I have said, I think that his policy was the best one that could have been pursued by the whole South—protract the war, which was all that was necessary to enable them to gain recognition in the end. The North was already growing weary, as the South evidently was also, but with this difference. In the North the people governed, and could stop hostilities whenever they chose to stop supplies. The South ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant
... may differ, according to our difference of taste or temperament, in appraising Charles Dodgson's genius; but that that great gift was his, that his best work ranks with the very best of its kind, this has been owned with a recognition too wide and spontaneous to leave room for doubt. The brilliant, venturesome imagination, defying forecast with ever-fresh surprise; the sense of humour in its finest and most naive form; the power to touch with lightest hand the undercurrent of pathos in the midst of fun; the audacity ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
... all their guns, to cut their way by shot and shell. If they can but gain a foothold on the other side, the day is theirs. The Union army will be annihilated, Tennessee redeemed. Buell will be captured or pushed back to the Ohio River. The failing fortunes of the Confederacy will revive. Recognition by foreign nations will be secured. ...
— My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field • Charles Carleton Coffin


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