Recognize vs Declare - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) To make clear, explain, interpret.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:
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To make a declaration.
To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.
(cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though all batsmen have not been dismissed.
To announce something formally or officially.
To affirm or state something emphatically.
To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
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To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
(computing) To explicitly include (a variable) as part of a list of variables, often providing some information about the data it is expected to contain.
In transitive terms the difference between recognize and declare
is that recognize is to give an award while declare is to make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.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
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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)declare
English
Verb
(declar)- Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.
- To declare this a little, we must assume that the surfaces of all such bodies are exactly smooth.
- He declared him innocent.
- declare bankruptcy
- declare victory
- (cricket) declare (an innings) closed
Law: The Trouble with Harry," Time , 2 April:
- The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.
- The counter "i" was declared as an integer.