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realize
[ ree-uh-lahyz ]
verb (used with object)
- to grasp or understand clearly.
Synonyms: ,
Antonyms:
- to make real; give reality to (a hope, fear, plan, etc.).
Synonyms: ,
- to bring vividly to the mind.
- to convert into cash or money:
to realize securities.
- to obtain as a profit or income for oneself by trade, labor, or investment.
- to bring as proceeds, as from a sale:
The goods realized $1000.
- Music. to sight-read on a keyboard instrument or write out in notation the full harmony and ornamentation indicated by (a figured bass).
- Linguistics. to serve as an instance, representation, or embodiment of (an abstract linguistic element or category):
In “Jack tripped,” the subject is realized by “Jack,” the predicate by “tripped,” and the past tense by “-ed.”
verb (used without object)
- to convert property or goods into cash or money.
realize
/ ˈɪəˌɪ /
verb
- when tr, may take a clause as object to become conscious or aware of (something)
- tr, often passive to bring (a plan, ambition, etc) to fruition; make actual or concrete
- tr to give (something, such as a drama or film) the appearance of reality
- tr (of goods, property, etc) to sell for or make (a certain sum)
this table realized £800
- tr to convert (property or goods) into cash
- tr of a musicologist or performer
- to expand or complete (a thorough-bass part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
- to reconstruct (a composition) from an incomplete set of parts
- to sound or utter (a phoneme or other speech sound) in actual speech; articulate
Derived Forms
- ˈˌ, noun
- ˌˈپDz, noun
- ˈˌ, adjective
- ˈˌ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ···· adjective
- ······ٲ [ree-, uh, -lahyz-, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], ·····ness noun
- ···· adverb
- ··· noun
- ···· verb (used with object) hyperrealized hyperrealizing
- non····· adjective
- ԴDz····Բ adjective
- ··· verb (used with object) prerealized prerealizing
- ܲ···· verb (used with object) underrealized underrealizing
- ܲ··· verb (used with object) unrealized unrealizing
51Թ History and Origins
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
It’s only now that I can connect the dots, realizing that this time it probably had something to do with turning 30 soon.
Bloom to love and to pass on some of what he has learned, Stephen to become secure and stable enough to realize his enormous potential.
“I have a picture of me, Jane, Pat Smear and Belinda standing there,” Caffey says, “And we were looking at each other like, ‘You realize this was never a thought in our minds back then.’”
But for boosters of the unsung city of West Sacramento — a scrappy town of 54,000 that many people, even in the wider region, don’t realize is a city — none of that mattered.
"Most homegrown brands rely on off-the-shelf soles from the market, but when we started Comet, we realized that these were lacking in quality, durability, and grip," he says.
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