Realise

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English

Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Verb

Infinitive
to realise

Third person singular
realises

Simple past
realised

Past participle
realised

Present participle
realising

  1. (transitive{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})

To become aware of a fact or situation.

  1. He realised that he had left his umbrella on the train.
  2. (transitive{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.

    • We realise what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth. — Joseph Glanvill.
  2. (transitive{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})

To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.

    • Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realise ancient history to us. — Benjamin Jowett.
    • We can not realise it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. — Sir William Hamilton.
  2. (transitive{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})

To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.

  1. (transitive{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})

To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realise large profits from a speculation.

    • Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate. — Macaulay.
  2. (transitive{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})

To convert into actual money; as, to realise assets.

  1. (transitive{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})

To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.

    • Wary men took the alarm, and began to realise, a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real. — Washington Irving.
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Translations

become aware of

make real

cause to seem real

convert into real property

acquire as an actual possession

convert into actual money

convert any kind of property into money

German: realisieren (only gain in stock exchange)

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French

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Verb

realise

  1. First- and third-person singular indicative and subjunctive present tense and imperative of realiser.
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