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# recognize

«recognize» in Mova's school dictionary: **To know someone or something again because you have seen…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (recognizes, recognized, recognizing)

### meaning for a pupil

To know someone or something again because you have seen, heard or met it before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recognize/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character who knows an old friend, a relative or a shadow when they meet again; «Don't you recognize me?»

### examples

- I recognize your face from the school photo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recognize/#x1)
- She recognized her brother's voice at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recognize/#x2)
- Can you recognize the tune? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recognize/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recognize» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recognize/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.