Recognition vs Favor - What's the difference?
recognition | favor |
the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
an awareness that something observed has been observed before
acceptance as valid or true
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official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country
honour, favourable note, or attention
A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
Goodwill; benevolent regard.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.
A small gift; a party favor.
* Shakespeare
Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
* Jonathan Swift
The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
* Milton
(obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
* Shakespeare
(legal) Partiality; bias.
(archaic, polite) A letter.
(obsolete, in the plural) lovelocks
(transitive) To look upon fondly; to prefer.
* And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored', the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. —, King James version, ' 1611
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, chapter=6 (transitive) To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
(transitive) To treat with care.
(transitive) To have a similar appearance, to look like another person.
As nouns the difference between recognition and favor
is that recognition is the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized while favor is a kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).As a verb favor is
(transitive) to look upon fondly; to prefer.recognition
English
Noun
(en-noun)- He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
- Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition ; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.
- The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
Derived terms
* character recognition * OCR / optical character recognition * speech recognition * voice recognitionSee also
* ("recognition" on Wikipedia) * identification *favor
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Alternative forms
* favour (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
- Wear thou this favour for me, and stick it in thy cap.
- I could not discover the lenity and favour of this sentence.
- All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man, / His chief delight and favour .
- This boy is fair, of female favour .
- (Bouvier)
- Your favour of yesterday is received.
- (Wright)
Usage notes
* Favor' is the standard US spelling, and an alternative in Canada. ' Favour is the standard spelling in Canada and outside North America. * English speakers usually "do' someone a favor" (rather than *"'''make''' them a favor", which would be sense 3 only). See for uses and meaning of ' favour collocated with these words.Derived terms
* in favor * in favor of * party favor * favoriteVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
