Clarify vs Recognize - What's the difference?
clarify | recognize |
To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.
* (rfdate) Ure:
To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
* (rfdate) South:
(ergative) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
* Leave the wine for 24 hours and it will clarify .
(ergative) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
(obsolete) To glorify.
To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
To acknowledge or consider as something.
To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.
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To show appreciation of.
(obsolete) To review; to examine again.
(obsolete) To reconnoiter.
To cognize again.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between clarify and recognize
is that clarify is (obsolete) to glorify while recognize is (obsolete) to reconnoiter.As verbs the difference between clarify and recognize
is that clarify is to make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup while recognize is to match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity or recognize can be to cognize again.clarify
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en-verb)- Boiled and clarified .
- To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will.
recognize
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) reconoistre, from (etyl) recognoscere, first attested in the 16th century. Displaced native English , compare German erkennen.Alternative forms
* recognise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(recogniz) (North American and Oxford British spelling)- 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.
Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=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.}}
- to recognize services by a testimonial
- (South)