different between recce vs reconnaissance

English

Alternative forms

• recco, reccy

Etymology

Abbreviation of reconnaissance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.ki/
• Hyphenation: rec?ce
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

recce (plural recces)

1. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand, military slang) Reconnaissance.
   • 1953, J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography

     Visiting the town on what in the more recent war we called a recce, she arranged a tennis-match with Dolly, guessing that the girl would be a bad loser.

   • 2006, Steve Farndon, Escape Inc.

     I'm afraid you two will have to go on a bit of a recce sometime soon.

Adjective

recce (not comparable)

1. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand, military slang) Relating to reconnaissance.
   • 1946, United States. Congress. American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack

     There appears a captured photograph showing cruiser or battleship recovery of an old Jap float recce plane.

Verb

recce (third-person singular simple present recces, present participle recceing, simple past and past participle recced or recce'd or recceed)

1. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand, military slang) Reconnoitre.
   • 1961, John Sibly, You'll Walk to Mandalay: A Novel

     I told the boys to stock up with all they could, and went back to the village to recce for someone to pay as per orders.

Synonyms

• (mainly US) recon

Anagrams

• eccer

English

Alternative forms

• recce (abbreviation)
• recon (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from French reconnaissance (“recognition”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?n?s?ns/

Noun

reconnaissance (countable and uncountable, plural reconnaissances)

1. The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
   • 1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

     The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.

Related terms

• reconnoiter, reconnoitre

Translations

Further reading

• reconnaissance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From reconnaiss- (present participle stem of reconnaître, cf. reconnaissant) + -ance. Compare also Medieval Latin recogn?scentia (“a recognizing, acknowledgement”), Italian riconoscenza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k?.n?.s??s/
• Homophone: reconnaissances
• Hyphenation: re?co?nnai?ssance

Noun

reconnaissance f (plural reconnaissances)

1. reconnaissance
2. thankfulness
3. recognition

Synonyms

• (thankfulness): gratitude

Further reading

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