Definition of "recognize" []

• To know to be something that has been perceived before: recognize a face. (verb-transitive)
• To know or identify from past experience or knowledge: recognize hostility. (verb-transitive)
• To perceive or show acceptance of the validity or reality of: recognizes the concerns of the tenants. (verb-transitive)
• To permit to address a meeting: The club's president recognized the new member. (verb-transitive)
• To accept officially the national status of as a new government. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I think that the important thing to recognize is that both sides of the political spectrum are primarily bound together by a sense of moral superiority over the other."
• "I think what you need to recognize is that we (and I only speak for the ones with pure souls like Visitor Again), are trying to achieve a higher state of reason and knowledge in our society."
• "And they are definitely not on your list – which has names I recognize from the magazines, but brands I have never tried."