Recognize vs Acquaint - What's the difference?
recognize | acquaint |
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.
To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar.
* I think you should acquaint him with the realities of the situation.
* (rfdate) (John Locke)
* (rfdate) Isaiah 53:3
To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliet) , III-iv
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), , IV-i
(obsolete) To familiarize; to accustom.
(obsolete) Acquainted.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between recognize and acquaint
is that recognize is (obsolete) to reconnoiter while acquaint is (obsolete) acquainted.As verbs the difference between recognize and acquaint
is that 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 while acquaint is to furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar.As an adjective acquaint is
(obsolete) acquainted.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
- (South)
Derived terms
* recognizability * recognizable * recognizably * recognizance * recognizant * recognization * recognizee * recognizer * recognizorEtymology 2
From re-'' + ''cognizeAlternative forms
* re-cognizeVerb
(recogniz) (North American and Oxford British spelling)acquaint
English
Verb
(en verb)- Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it.
- A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
- Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love.
- ''I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland.
- (Evelyn)