different between ogle vs recognize

English

Alternative forms

• oggle
• augle (Northern England)

Etymology

Probably from

• Dutch, from Middle Dutch *ooghelen, oeghelen (“to ogle”), frequentative form of oogen (“to look at”), from oge (“eye”),
• or from Low German oegeln, frequentative of oegen (“to look at”), from Oog (“eye”).

Compare German äugeln (“to ogle”). More at eye, -le.

Pronunciation

• (UK): enPR: ??g?l, IPA^(key): /?????l/ or (nonstandard, perhaps by analogy with goggle) enPR: ?g??l, IPA^(key): /????l/
• (US): enPR: ??g?l, IPA^(key): /?o???l/, /????l/
• Rhymes: -????l, -???l

Verb

ogle (third-person singular simple present ogles, present participle ogling, simple past and past participle ogled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

Translations

Noun

ogle (plural ogles)

1. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
2. (Polari, usually in the plural) An eye.

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Goel, LEGO, Lego, Loge, goel, lego, loge

Latvian

Alternative forms

• (dialectal forms) oglis

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *an?glís, from Proto-Indo-European *h?óng?l? (“coal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ùo?l?]

Noun

ogle f (5th declension)

1. charcoal (partially burnt organic materials, usually wood)

2. (syn. akme?ogle) coal (mineral deposits, used as industrial fuel)

Declension

Derived terms

• akme?ogle
• ogleklis

References

Slovene

Noun

ógle

1. accusative plural of ogel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k??na?z/, (sometimes proscribed) /???k?na?z/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French reconoistre, from Latin recognoscere, first attested in the 16th century. Displaced native English acknow (“to recognize, perceive as”), compare German erkennen and Swedish erkänna.

Alternative forms

• recognise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

recognize (third-person singular simple present recognizes, present participle recognizing, simple past and past participle recognized) (North American and Oxford British spelling)

1. (transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     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.

2. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.

3. (transitive, or with clause) To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).

4. (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.
5. (transitive) To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc.

6. (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of South to this entry?)
7. (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
   • 1637, Robert Monro, Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys

     before the siege was layd to the Towne, of minde to recognize, he fell unawares amongst an Ambushcade

8. (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From re- +? cognize.

Alternative forms

• re-cognize

Verb

recognize (third-person singular simple present recognizes, present participle recognizing, simple past and past participle recognized) (North American and Oxford British spelling)

1. to cognize again