realize
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- realise (Commonwealth, but not OED and Canada)
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to realize (third-person singular simple present realizes, present participle realizing, simple past and past participle realized)
- (transitive) To become aware of a fact or situation.
- He realized that he had left his umbrella on the train.
- (transitive) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish.
- The objectives of the project were never fully realized.
- Profits from the investment can be realized at any time by selling the shares.
- We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth. — Joseph Glanvill.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To convert (assets) into actual money.
- By realizing the company's assets, the liquidator was able to return most of the shareholders' investments.
- (transitive) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares, 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.
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- (to convert to actuality): accomplish, actualize
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to become aware of
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to make real
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to cause to seem real
to convert into real property
to acquire as an actual possession
to convert into actual money
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to convert any kind of property into money
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[edit] References
- realize in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- realize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
