recognizeとは

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Borrowed 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.

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• recognise (non-Oxford British spelling)

動詞

recognize (三人称単数 現在形 recognizes, 現在分詞 recognizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 recognized) (North American and Oxford British spelling)

1. (transitive) To match (something または someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.

   I recognised his face immediately, although his voice was different.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days, and he felt a genuine thrill of pleasure when he recognized the red bandana turban of old Aunt Lyddy, the ancient negro woman who had sold him gingerbread and fried fish, and told him weird tales of witchcraft and conjuration, in the old days when, as an idle boy, he had loafed about the market-house.

2. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.

   The US and a number of EU countries are expected to recognize Kosovo on Monday.

3. (transitive, または with clause) To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing または having a certain quality または property).

   Slavery is widely recognized as immoral.

   I recognize that my behaviour has been unacceptable.

4. (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.
   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

5. (transitive) To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc.

   His services were recognized in a testimonial.

   The soldier was recognized in dispatches.

6. (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
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7. (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
   • 1637, Robert Monro, Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys

     before the siege was layd to the Towne, of minde to recognize, he fell unawares amongst an Ambushcade

8. (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.

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