Assess vs Recognise - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between assess and recognise

is that assess is to calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity while recognise is to give an award.

As verbs the difference between assess and recognise

is that assess is to determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate while recognise is to match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.

assess

English

Verb

(es)

To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate

He assessed the situation.

To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.

The referee assessed a penalty for delaying the game.

A $10.00 late fee will be assessed on all overdue accounts.

To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.

Once you've submitted a tax return, the Tax Department will assess the amount of tax you still owe.

Derived terms

* assessability * assessable * assessably * assessment * overassess * overassessment * unassessability * unassessable * unassessably * underassess * underassessment

Anagrams

recognise

English

Alternative forms

* recognize (US )

Verb

(recognis)

To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.

To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or valid.

To acknowledge or consider as something.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=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.}}

To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.

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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation , passage=“[…] 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. […]”}}

To give an award.