Realize
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Alternative spellings
- realise (Commonwealth)
Verb
to realize (third-person singular simple present realizes, present participle realizing, simple past realized, past participle realized)
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To become aware of a fact or situation.
- He realized that he had left his umbrella on the train.
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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 realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth. — Joseph Glanvill.
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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 realize ancient history to us. — Benjamin Jowett.
- We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. — Sir William Hamilton.
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To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.
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To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.
- Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate. — Macaulay.
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To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.
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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 realize, a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real. — Washington Irving.
Translations
become aware of
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make real
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cause to seem real
convert into real property
acquire as an actual possession
convert into actual money
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convert any kind of property into money
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German: realisieren (only gain in stock exchange) |