verb /ˈɹɛkəɡnaɪz/
a) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.
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.
b) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something.; treat as worthy of consideration or valid.
The US and a number of EU countries are expected to recognize Kosovo on Monday.
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