Accolade vs. Recognition

Accoladenoun

An expression of approval; praise.

Accoladenoun

A special acknowledgment; an award.

Accoladenoun

An embrace of greeting or salutation.

Accoladenoun

(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.

Accoladenoun

(music) A brace used to join two or more staves.

Accoladenoun

Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel 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. Service of civilians who died overseas or as a result of injury or disease contracted while serving in a civilian capacity with the United States Armed Forces during the dates and/or in areas prescribed is in like manner recognized.

Accoladenoun

(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. Such accolades are either plain or adorned with rich moldings, and are a frequent motive of decoration on the lintels of doors and windows of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially in secular architecture.

Accoladeverb

(transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.

Accoladeverb

To confer a knighthood on.

Accoladeverb

(transitive) To confer praise or awards on.

Accoladenoun

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.

Accoladenoun

A brace used to join two or more staves.

Accoladenoun

a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction;

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 or or .

Recognitionnoun

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

Recognitionnoun

acceptance as valid or true

Recognitionnoun

official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country

Recognitionnoun

honour, favourable note, or attention

Recognitionnoun

(immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.

Recognitionnoun

A return of the feu to the superior.

Recognitionnoun

The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.

Recognitionnoun

the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged;

Recognitionnoun

the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering;

Recognitionnoun

approval;

Recognitionnoun

coming to understand something clearly and distinctly;

Recognitionnoun

(biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape;

Recognitionnoun

the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country;

Recognitionnoun

an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid;

Recognitionnoun

designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body;