When you recognize that the thing or person involved is representing something or someone.
Listen Stefaan, I reprenize that 'Derrick' represents for the opposite team. That's why even his parents don't like him.
Derrick got a new car, it's bluck, matches his eye after he got a punch from Karen at the pub.
"That dogs a mixed breed mongrel, scungy as, covered in dirt, a scundrel."