recognise
part of speech
verb (recognise, recognises, recognised, recognising)
meaning for a pupil
1) To recognise someone or something is to know who or what they are because you have seen, heard or met them before. tree →
2) To accept that something is true or real. tree →
3) To show that you value something someone has done, often by praising or rewarding it. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in everyday life and safety: recognise a friend's voice; recognise warning signs of danger. In maths: recognise shapes, patterns and number facts. In school awards: recognise good work. In science: recognise living things by their features.
examples
- I didn't recognise you with your new haircut! tree →
- Can you recognise these shapes? tree →
- She recognised the song straight away. tree →
- Learn to recognise the signs of a scam. tree →
- The school recognised his hard work with a certificate. tree →
- Dogs recognise their owners by smell. tree →
- He recognised that he had made a mistake. tree →
- She recognised Gerda immediately, and Gerda knew her too. tree →
note
British spelling; American "recognize". Noun: recognition. Stress on "REC". Different from "know": recognise means you know it again when you meet it.
In the corpora
- There is no "change 30 percent and it's yours" rule; what matters is whether the original can still be recognised.
- Emperor penguins find their partners and chicks among thousands of others by recognising their calls.
- Elephants recognise old friends after years apart and greet them noisily with rumbles, ear flapping and trunk touches.
- Each chick has its own voice, and its parents recognise it among thousands of others in a noisy colony.
- In experiments sheep learned to recognise the faces of other sheep and of some famous people from photos.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «recognise» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.