English
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Alternative spellings
realise (Commonwealth, but not OED and Canada)

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-realize.ogg|Audio (US)

Verb
en-verb|realiz|ing

1. transitive To become aware of a fact or situation.

#: He realized that he had left his umbrella on the train.

1. transitive 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. — w:Joseph Glanvill|Joseph Glanvill.

1. 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. — w:Benjamin Jowett|Benjamin Jowett.
#* We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. — w:Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet|Sir William Hamilton.

1. transitive To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.
2. 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. — w:Macaulay|Macaulay.

1. transitive To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.
2. transitive 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:Washington Irving|Washington Irving.

Related terms
realizable

Translations
trans-top|become aware of
Arabic: ARchar|ادر� IPAchar|(�ádraka)
Chinese: �� (x�ngqi�ng)
Finnish: ymmärtää, tajuta
French: se rendre compte (that: que)
German: erkennen (that: dass)
Italian: rendersi conto (that: che)
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Japanese: �� (���, satoru)
Portuguese: perceber, notar
Russian: п�ед��авл���|п�ед��авл��� �ебе (predstavlját� sebé)
Spanish: dar#Spanish|darse cuenta (that: de que)
Swedish: inse (that: att)
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trans-top|make real
Arabic: ARchar|ح�� IPAchar|(ħáqqaqa)
Chinese: 實�, �� (shíxiàn)
Dutch: realizeren, bewerkstelligen
Finnish: toteuttaa
French: réaliser
German: realisieren (mainly used together with project)
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Japanese: ���� (������, jitsugén surú)
Korean: ���� (silhyeonhada)
Portuguese: realizar, concretizar
Russian: �еализова�� (realizovát�)
Spanish: realizar
Swedish: realisera
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trans-top|cause to seem real
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trans-top|convert into real property
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trans-top|acquire as an actual possession
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trans-top|convert into actual money
Arabic: ARchar|باع IPAchar|(b��a)
Finnish: realisoida
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Russian: �еализова�� (realizovát�)
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trans-top|convert any kind of property into money
German: realisieren (only a gain in stock exchange)
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Russian: �еализова�� (realizovát�)
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References
R:Century 1911
R:Webster 1913

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