recognizing
UK spellingrecognising
- 1Present participle and gerund of recognize.
The new software is surprisingly good at recognizing faces in a crowded photo.
Recognizing the symptoms early can make a real difference to the patient.
Note
The same -ing form does two grammatical jobs. After a form of be it works as a participle (she was recognizing old friends). In noun positions it works as a gerund, either as subject or after a preposition (without recognizing him). It carries every meaning of the verb: knowing a face again, accepting a claim as valid, honoring someone with an award. Its -ize spelling is standard in both US and Oxford British usage.
recognizing is a form of recognize
recognize, verb: To identify someone or something as familiar from a previous encounter. Full entry
- Forms
- recognizerecognizes he/she/itrecognizing -ing formrecognized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- recognize → recognizing: drop the e, add -ing
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