Difference between Emphasize and Recognize

EMPHASIZE vs RECOGNIZE: VERB

Exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate)
Detect with the senses
Show approval or appreciation of
Perceive to be the same
Be fully aware or cognizant of
Grant credentials to
Accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
Express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for
Express greetings upon meeting someone
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 give prominence of sound to (a syllable or word) in pronouncing or in accordance with a metrical pattern.
To cause to appear important or deserving of attention.
To give emphasis to; stress.
To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic.

To admit the acquaintance of, as by salutation.
To enter into a recognizance.
To exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate, for example).
To show awareness of; approve of or appreciate.
To accept officially the national status of as a new government.
To permit to address a meeting.
To perceive or show acceptance of the validity or reality of.
To know or identify from past experience or knowledge.
To know to be something that has been perceived before.
To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.
To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment
To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.
To show appreciation of.
To review; to reëxamine.
To reconnoiter.

To utter or pronounce with emphasis; render emphatic; lay stress upon: as, to emphasize a syllable, word, or declaration; to emphasize a passage in reading.
To bring out clearly or distinctly; make more obvious or more positive; give a stronger perception of.

To know (the object) again; recall or recover the knowledge of; perceive the identity of with something formerly known or in the mind.
To avow or admit a knowledge of, with approval or sanction; acknowledge or accept formally: as, to recognize one as ambassador; to recognize a government as an independent sovereignty or as a belligerent.
To indicate one's acquaintance with (a person) by a salute: as, to pass one without recognizing him.
To indicate appreciation of: as, to recognize merit.
To review; reëxamine; take cognizance of anew.
To acknowledge; admit or confess as an obligation or duty.
=Syn. 2–4. Recognize, Acknowledge. The essential difference between these words lies in the difference between letting in to one's own knowledge (recognize) and letting out to other people's knowledge (acknowledge). Hence the opposite of recognize is disown or some kindred word; that of acknowledge is conceal or deny. To recognize an obligation and to acknowledge an obligation differ precisely in this way. The preacher may be able to make a man recognize, even if he cannot make him acknowledge his need of moral improvement. See acknowledge.
In law, to enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal: as, A. B. recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. Also spelled recognise.
To cognize again.

Overemphasize, Remind, Illustrate, Reiterate, Reinforce, Highlight, Stressing, Bring out, Set off, Accent, Stress, Punctuate, Accentuate, Underline, Underscore

Identify, Recognition, Understand, Tell apart, Pick out, Agnize, Agnise, Make out, Greet, Accredit, Discern, Know, Distinguish, Realize, Acknowledge

Demonstrate, Acknowledge, Focus, Remind, Illustrate, Reinforce, Highlight, Bring out, Set off, Accent, Stress, Punctuate, Accentuate, Underline, Underscore

Reflect, Embrace, Emphasize, Accept, Appreciate, Identify, Recognition, Understand, Tell apart, Greet, Accredit, Discern, Know, Distinguish, Acknowledge

Wear a sweater, I cannot emphasize this enough.
Subject areas emphasize computer graphics and multiple media.
Emphasize relevant training depending on the job description.
Emphasize a multisensory writing approach as noted below.
Also, avoid using color to emphasize important information.
Which part of the word did you emphasize?
Do these statements emphasize your skills and accomplishments?
Can you restructure yourresume to emphasize your skills?
Treatments are divided into those that emphasize the emission of behavior and those that emphasize the omission of behavior.
Emphasize your accomplishments Both Grote and Butler agree that you should emphasize your achievements.

It is easy if you recognize the words.
Stream Saver will not recognize all video content.
Today, we recognize gender discrimination as a wrong.
Within this family, microbiologists recognize two distinct categories.
Recognize periods of timesuch as decades and centuries.
Recognize the German combined arms approach to warfare.
Will Wilson not recognize him and start shooting.
Honor societies recognize and encourage high academic scholarship.
Connecticut does not recognize degrees of negligence and, consequently, does not recognize the tort of gross negligence as a separate basis of liability.
By querying the Oracle data dictionary, applications can recognize RI constraints and therefore recognize the multidimensional data in the database.