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Recognition vs Scrutiny - What's the difference?

recognition | scrutiny | Related terms |

Recognition is a related term of scrutiny.


As nouns the difference between recognition and scrutiny

is that recognition is the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized while scrutiny is intense study of someone or something.

As a verb scrutiny is

(obsolete|rare) to scrutinize.

recognition

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized
    • He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
    • 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.
  • an awareness that something observed has been observed before
  • acceptance as valid or true
    • 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
  • official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country
  • honour, favourable note, or attention
    • The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.

    Derived terms

    * character recognition * OCR / optical character recognition * speech recognition * voice recognition

    See also

    * ("recognition" on Wikipedia) * identification *

    scrutiny

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (scrutinies)
  • Intense study of someone or something.
  • * Milton
    • Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view / And narrower scrutiny .
  • Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
  • An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
  • A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
  • An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.

    • Synonyms

    * examination * exploration * going-over (informal) * inquiry * inspection * investigation * perusal * probe * scan * survey * study

    Related terms

    * inscrutable * perscrutation * scrutator * scrutineer * scrutinize

    Verb

  • (obsolete, rare) To scrutinize.

    • External links

    * * * " * 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", scrûtnung * Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.). Scrutnung. Retrieved September 18, 2011, from http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/027060