realize
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[edit] English
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- realise (British)
[edit] Etymology
c 1610, from French réaliser, from Middle French real (“actual”), from Old French reel, from Latin realis, from res (“thing, event, deed, fact”); as if real + -ize.
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[edit] Verb
realize (third-person singular simple present realizes, present participle realizing, simple past and past participle realized)
- (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.
- (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Glanvill
- We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth.
- (transitive) To become aware of a fact or situation.
- He realized that he had left his umbrella on the train.
- (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.
- 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, II:
- That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
- (Can we date this quote?), Benjamin Jowett.
- Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us.
- (Can we date this quote?), Sir William Hamilton
- We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment.
- 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, II:
- (transitive, business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get
- to realize large profits from a speculation.
- (transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares, bonds, etc.
- Profits from the investment can be realized at any time by selling the shares.
- By realizing the company's assets, the liquidator was able to return most of the shareholders' investments.
- (Can we date this quote?) Washington Irving
- 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.
- (transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
[edit] Synonyms
- (to convert to actuality): accomplish, actualize
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[edit] Translations
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
[edit] Portuguese
[edit] Verb
realize
- First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of verb realizar.
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of verb realizar.
- Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of verb realizar.
- Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of verb realizar.
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