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recommend

verb
/ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/US

Etymology

From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”). Compare typologically Bulgarian препоръчам (preporǎčam), Serbo-Croatian препоручити, Slovene priporočiti, Czech doporučit, Slovak odporučiť (the same meaning); Russian поручи́ться (poručítʹsja), пору́ка (porúka), поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) (close meaning), all related to Proto-Slavic *rǫka (Bulgarian ръка (rǎka), Russian рука́ (ruká)).

  1. derived from re-
  2. derived from recommender
  3. inherited from recommenden

Definitions

  1. To bestow commendation on

    To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.

    • The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.

  2. To make acceptable

    To make acceptable; to attract favor to.

    • A city that has much to recommend it.

  3. To advise, propose, counsel favorably.

    • The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
    • My therapist recommended that I rest the mind and exercise the body.
    • An influential group of medical experts, the US Preventive Services Task Force, recommended last week that most women receive a mammogram starting at age 40.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To commit, to confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring…

      To commit, to confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations.

      • A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.

    2. A recommendation.

      • "I'm glad to have a recommend from that quarter. Airheart's skipper of the San Jose now. […]"

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Derived

auto-recommend, misrecommend, recommendable, recommendary, recommendative, recommendatory, recommended, recommendee, recommender, rerecommend, unrecommend

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at recommend. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at recommend. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at recommend

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA