0 present participle of recognize --
1 to know someone or something because you have seen or heard him or her or experienced it before: --
2 to accept that something is legal, true, or important: --
The Queen recognized his services to his country by awarding him an MBE.
You must recognize the seriousness of the problems we are facing.
[ + (that) ] He sadly recognized (that) he would die childless.
The international community has refused to recognize (= officially accept the existence of) the newly independent nation state.
To the contrary, recognizing the limitations associated with a data set strengthens claims drawn from observed patterns in that data.
Selecting an appropriate measure of coupling strength depends critically on recognizing and describing the underlying affordance-effectivity match of the target system.
A review for recognizing natural objects in colour images of outdoor scenes.
And he was not alone in recognizing the perils of attempting it.
This standpoint has the important advantage of recognizing each person's individual rights, but still making mutually beneficial adjustments possible.
Recognizing the pressures on collective bargaining, the associations have sought to cultivate comparative advantages in other activities in order to continue to attract members.
She downplays the administrative practice, in recognizing chiefs, of supporting one ruling-family faction against another on political grounds.
One makes a doxastic venture when one takes to be true a proposition that one believes, while recognizing that one lacks sufficient supportive evidence.