Recognised vs Recognise - What's the difference?
recognised | recognise |
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= To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.
*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 To give an award.
As verbs the difference between recognised and recognise
is that recognised is (recognise) while recognise is to match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.As an adjective recognised
is notable; distinguished; honoured.recognise
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Alternative forms
* recognize (US )Verb
(recognis)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.}}
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. […]”}}
