English Online Dictionary. What means realize? What does realize mean?
English
Alternative forms
- realise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Etymology
Attested since 1610, from French réaliser, from Middle French real (“actual”), from Old French reel, from Latin reālis, from rēs (“thing, event, deed, fact”); as if real + -ize.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹi.ə.laɪz/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɪə.laɪz/
- Hyphenation: re‧al‧ize
Verb
realize (third-person singular simple present realizes, present participle realizing, simple past and past participle realized)
- (slightly formal, transitive) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into reality; to bring into real existence
- Synonyms: accomplish, actualize, materialize
- Coordinate term: reify
- (transitive) To become aware of (a fact or situation, especially of something that has been true for a long time).
- 2002, The Flaming Lips, Do You Realize??
- Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?
- 2002, The Flaming Lips, Do You Realize??
- (transitive) To cause to seem real to other people.
- (transitive) To sense vividly or strongly; to make one's own in thought or experience.
- (transitive, business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get
- (transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, such as shares, bonds, etc.
- (transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
- (transitive, linguistics) To turn an abstract linguistic object into actual language, especially said of a phoneme's conversion into speech sound.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- realizable
- realization
- realizer
Related terms
- real
- realism
- realistic
- reality
Translations
References
- “realize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “realize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French réaliser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁealize/
Verb
realize (medial form realiz)
- to realize.
Related terms
- realizasion
- realizater
Portuguese
Verb
realize
- inflection of realizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative