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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 Word 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
Word History and Origins
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The unsuspecting saints may be gone by the time they realize that the pedestal to which we annexed them was a cliff or tripwire trapping them in the theater of an idea of themselves.
“I hope to replicate this at Angel Stadium,” Aitken said, “but realize the teams are just in different places.”
And then they realize, oh, someone else loves birds, that’s cool, let’s stop and look at another bird.
Noting the black triangle sewed to the man’s uniform, the Nazis’ label for trans prisoners, Bertie realizes the man must have escaped from nearby Dachau.
Seeing “Three Days of the Condor,” “Little Fauss and Big Halsy,” “Dog Day Afternoon” — that sparked something in me, though I didn’t realize until later on that it was this desire to express myself.
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