Look and Recognize

Look

Look verb - To give the impression of being.

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Recognize and look are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Recognize" instead a verb "Look".

Nearby Words: lookout, looked, looker, looking, lookup

Recognize verb - To have a clear idea of.

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Look and recognize are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Look" instead a verb "Recognize".

character	look character	recognize character
man	look man	recognize man
people	look people	recognize people
name	look name	recognize name
Other words: time, way, face, characters, humans, names.

Most people don't immediately recognize the vampire in Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem as it visibly doesn't look much like a vampire at all.

Source: Our Vampires Are Different / Video Games
In one episode (161), Naruto fails to recognize two people wearing obvious disguises to make them look like Guy and Lee, and misinterprets their increasingly deviant tasks as "taijutsu" training.

Source: Idiot Ball / Anime and Manga
Exley doesn't recognize Lana Turner because the Conspirator has had his prostitutes undergo plastic surgery to look like Hollywood starlets, so he thinks she's just a hooker cut to look like Lana Turner.

Source: Recognition Failure

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