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.

Verb

(referr)

To direct the attention of.

The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.

To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.

He referred the matter to the principal.

to refer a patient to a psychiatrist

To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.

He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

(rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.

# (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence

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