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English Dictionary: realize by the DICT Development Group
3 results for realize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
realize
v
  1. be fully aware or cognizant of [syn: recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise]
  2. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea"
    Synonym(s): understand, realize, realise, see
  3. make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions"
    Synonym(s): realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
  4. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month"
    Synonym(s): gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
  5. convert into cash; of goods and property
    Synonym(s): realize, realise
  6. expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
    Synonym(s): realize, realise
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Realize \Re"al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Realized}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Realizing}.] [Cf. F. r[82]aliser.]
      1. 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.
                                                                              --Glanvill.
  
      2. 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.                                                --Jowett.
  
                     We can not realize it in thought, that the object .
                     . . had really no being at any past moment. --Sir W.
                                                                              Hamilton.
  
      3. To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as,
            to realize his fortune.
  
      4. 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.
  
      5. To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Realize \Re"al*ize\, v. t.
      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.         --W. Irving.
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