different between notice vs recognition

English

Alternative forms

• not. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French notice, from the Latin notitia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??t?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?no?t?s/, [?no???s]
• Hyphenation: no?tice

Noun

notice (countable and uncountable, plural notices)

1. (chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
   • How ready is envy to mingle with the notices which we take of other persons?

2. (countable) A written or printed announcement.

3. (countable) A formal notification or warning.

5. (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.

6. (countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
   • 1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920- (volume 18, page 167)

     The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave.

7. (uncountable) Prior notification.
8. (dated) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.

Synonyms

• (attention): heed, regard; see also Thesaurus:attention

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

notice (third-person singular simple present notices, present participle noticing, simple past and past participle noticed)

1. (transitive, now rare) To remark upon; to mention. [from 17th c.]
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 88:

     Numberless are the arguments […] that men have used morally and physically, to degrade the sex. I must notice a few.

2. (transitive) To become aware of; to observe. [from 17th c.]
   • 1991, Gregory Widen, Backdraft

     So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?

3. (obsolete, transitive) To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, vol. I, ch. 3

     She would notice her; she would improve her; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good society; she would form her opinions and her manners.

4. (intransitive) To be noticeable; to show. [from 20th c.]
   • 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy 2010, p. 9:

     The blackness didn't notice so much when she was born; but it's unmistakeable now.

Synonyms

• recognize

Antonyms

• ignore
• neglect

Translations

Anagrams

• conite, ecotin, neotic, noetic

French

Etymology

From Latin notitia

Noun

notice f (plural notices)

1. instruction

   Avez-vous lu la notice avant de monter le meuble?

Further reading

• “notice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin recognitionem (accusative of recognitio), from stem recognit, past participle of recognoscere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k???n???n/

Noun

recognition (usually uncountable, plural recognitions)

1. The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).

   He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

2. Acceptance as valid or true.

   The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
3. Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
4. Honour, favourable note, or attention.

   The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.

5. (immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
6. (Scotland, law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.

Derived terms

Related terms

• recognitive
• recognitory

Translations

See also

• recognition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• identification
• type approval