Ogle vs Recognize - What's the difference?
ogle | recognize | Related terms |
(intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
* Dryden
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.
Ogle is a related term of recognize.
As verbs the difference between ogle and recognize
is that ogle is (intransitive) to stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously 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.As a noun ogle
is an impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.ogle
English
Alternative forms
* (Northern England)Verb
(ogl)- And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.
Anagrams
* ----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.
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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
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