Assert and Recognize

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority.
  • usage: "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods"
  • synonyms: acknowledge, recognise, know
• Be fully aware or cognizant of.
  • synonyms: recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise
• Detect with the senses.
  • usage: "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
  • synonyms: spot, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
• Perceive to be the same.
  • synonyms: recognise
• Grant credentials to.
  • usage: "The Regents officially recognized the new educational institution"; "recognize an academic degree"
  • synonyms: accredit, recognise
• Express greetings upon meeting someone.
  • synonyms: greet, recognise
• Express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for.
  • usage: "We must acknowledge the kindness she showed towards us"
  • synonyms: acknowledge, recognise
• Exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate. )
• Show approval or appreciation of.
  • usage: "My work is not recognized by anybody"; "The best student was recognized by the Dean"
  • synonyms: recognise

• (v.t.) To reconnoiter.
• (v.i.) To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars.
• (v.t.) To review; to reexamine.
• (v.t.) To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.
• (v.t.) To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.
• (v.t.) To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing or the like.
• (v.t.) To show appreciation of; as, to recognize services by a testimonial.