Difference between Greet and Recognize

What is the difference between Greet and Recognize?

Greet as a verb is to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token. while Recognize as a verb is to match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.

Greet

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Great.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token. To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad. To accost; to address. To meet and give salutations. To weep; cry, lament.

Example sentence: Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

Recognize

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.To acknowledge the existence or legality of something.; treat as worthy of consideration or valid.To acknowledge or consider as something.To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.To give an award.To cognize again.

Example sentence: Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

We hope you now know whether to use Greet or Recognize in your sentence.

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