Verb

(recogniz) (North American and Oxford British spelling)

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,

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.

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.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

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To give an award.

To show appreciation of.

to recognize services by a testimonial

(obsolete) To review; to examine again.

(South)

(obsolete) To reconnoiter.

Verb

(recogniz) (North American and Oxford British spelling)

To cognize again.

Verb

(en verb)

To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

* Shakespeare

peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads

* Coleridge

as if through a dungeon grate he peered

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6

He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.

to come in sight; to appear.

* Shakespeare

So honour peereth in the meanest habit.

* Ben Jonson

See how his gorget peers above his gown!

Verb

(en verb)

to make equal in rank.

(Heylin)

(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.