Accolade vs. Recognition — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Accolade and Recognition
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Accolade
The accolade (also known as dubbing or adoubement) (Latin: benedictio militis) was the central act in the rite of passage ceremonies conferring knighthood in the Middle Ages. From about 1852, the term accolade was used much more generally to mean "praise" or "award" or "honour".
Recognition
The act of recognizing or condition of being recognized.
Accolade
An expression of approval; praise.
Recognition
An awareness that something perceived has been perceived before.
Accolade
A special acknowledgment; an award.
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Recognition
An acceptance as true or valid, as of a claim
A recognition of their civil rights.
Accolade
A ceremonial embrace, as of greeting or salutation.
Recognition
Attention or favorable notice
She received recognition for her many achievements.
Accolade
Ceremonial bestowal of knighthood.
Recognition
Official acceptance of the national status of a new government by another nation.
Accolade
To praise or honor
"His works are invariably accoladed as definitive even as they sparkle and spark" (Malcolm S. Forbes).
Recognition
(Biology) The ability of one molecule to attach itself to another molecule having a complementary shape, as in enzyme-substrate and antibody-antigen interactions.
Accolade
An expression of approval; praise.
Recognition
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.
Accolade
A special acknowledgment; an award.
This film is likely to pick up major accolades.
Recognition
Acceptance as valid or true.
The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
Accolade
An embrace of greeting or salutation.
Recognition
Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
Accolade
(historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
Recognition
Honour, favourable note, or attention.
The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
Accolade
(music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
Recognition
(immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
Accolade
(US) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954.
Recognition
A return of the feu to the superior.
Accolade
(architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other.
Recognition
The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.
The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God.
Accolade
Synonym of curly bracket
Recognition
The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged;
The partners were delighted with the recognition of their work
She seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own
Accolade
(transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
Recognition
The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering;
A politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces
Experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer
Accolade
To confer a knighthood on.
Recognition
Approval;
Give her recognition for trying
He was given credit for his work
Give her credit for trying
The credits were given at the end of the film
Accolade
(transitive) To confer praise or awards on.
An accoladed novel
Recognition
Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly;
A growing realization of the risk involved
A sudden recognition of the problem he faced
Increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases
Accolade
A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting of an embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
Recognition
(biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape;
Molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities
Accolade
A brace used to join two or more staves.
Recognition
The explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country;
Territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991
Accolade
A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction;
An award for bravery
Recognition
An acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid;
The recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States
Recognition
Designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body;
He was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman
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