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Realize

Definition: Realize

Realize

Verb

1. Be fully aware or cognizant of.

2. Perceive mentally, as of an idea; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea".

3. Make real or concrete; give reality to.

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".

5. Convert into cash; of goods and property.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "realize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Note: Realize \Re"al*ize\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Realized; Realizing.]. (references)

 

Synonyms: Realize

Synonyms: actualise (v), actualize (v), agnise (v), agnize (v), bring in (v), clear (v), earn (v), gain (v), make (v), pull in (v), realise (v), recognise (v), recognize (v), see (v), take in (v), understand (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Realize

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Acquisition

Treasure up; (store); realize, clear; produce; take.

Belief

Verb: believe, credit; give faith to, give credit to, credence to; see, realize; assume, receive; set down for, take for; have it, take it; consider, esteem, presume.

Completion

Despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.

Disappointment

Not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation.

Discovery

Recognize, realize; verify, make certain of, identify.

Imagination

Verb: imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name".

Intellect

Verb: note, notice, mark; take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of, be conscious of; realize; appreciate; ruminate; (think); fancy; (imagine).

Knowledge

Conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy, appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience.

Sale

Verb: sell, vend, dispose of, effect a sale; sell over the counter, sell by auction; Noun: dispense, retail; deal in; sell off, sell out; turn into money, realize; bring to the hammer, bring under the hammer, put up to auction, put up for auction; offer for sale, put up for sale; hawk, bring to market; offer; undersell.

Speciality

Verb: specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize, designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select.

Thought

Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Realize

English words defined with "realize": anticipate, appreciatecome, convert, convince, critical point, crossroadsdisturbanceforeknow, foreseejunctureon cameraperturbation, previserealise, Realizingseetake accountunderstand, unfulfilled, unrealised, unrealized, upsetwin over. (references)
Specialty definitions using "realize": ApiphanyCatastrophic crop insuranceEaglesHay, HogsIndemnity payment, inflation risk, IronJollyohnosecondPardon, Poplars, purchasing-power riskSnowTurquoiseWaterYou know you've been hacking too long when, You know you've been hacking too long when.... (references)
Etymologies containing "realize": Actualize. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Realize" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (accomplish, realise).

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Modern Usage: Realize

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

It's kind of like when you go on vacation: you plan everything out, but then one day you make a wrong turn, or take a detour, and you end up in some crazy place you can't even find on the map, doing something you never thought you'd do. Maybe you feel a little lost while it's happening, but later you realize it was the best part of the whole trip (Threesome; writing credit: Andrew Fleming.)

only try to realize the truth (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

Marion, I don't think you realize (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick)

As you see her, two years later, I wonder if you realize something (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

Lyrics

You made me realize the love I'd missed (Caught Up in You; performing artist: 38 Special)

Make ya realize (Where My Girls At; performing artist: 702)

Do you realize (I Don't Wanna; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Dear matthew I like you a lot I realize you're in a relationship with someone (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Baby, i hope you realize (So Much In Love; performing artist: All-4-One)

Clever

Before you can break out of prison, you must realize that you are locked up. (references; author: unknown)

Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. (references; author: unknown)

Humans are like tea bags. They never realize their strength until they are put in hot water. (references; author: unknown)

Parental Observation: Summer vacation is a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid. (references; author: unknown)

I know you know what I think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Realize

DomainTitle

Books

  • Creative Utopia: 12 Ways to Realize Total Creativity (reference)

  • Discover Yourself: Understand Your Mind, Know Your Body, Nuture Your Spirit, Realize Your Potential (reference)

  • Embracing True Prosperity: Guided Visualizations & Practical Tools To Realize Your Deepest Dreams (reference)

  • Restoring a Home in Italy: Twenty-Two Home Owners Realize Their Dream (reference)

  • Succeeding Against the Odds: How the Learning-Disabled Can Realize Their Promise (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Realize

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Realize

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By 1911, the staff had come to realize the need for a hospital connected to Gratwick laboratories. The result was the Cary Pavillion, a 30-bed hospital. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

But, my dear sir, do you realize the historical distinction of this matchless ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Our picture shows the control panel of the installation VEPP-2 with opposing charged particle beams in which they are going to realize collision of electrons and positrons with relative power of two thousand milliard electron-volts, being made at the Inst. Credit: Library of Congress.

No more rotton politics, nothing can be gained from mere criticism, now our party is putting out a realistic social welfare plan to realize people's wishes; this is the first such action in any party history. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Realize
 

"Theatro Municipal do Rio de Ja" by Felipe Bordalo
Commentary: "It's was in a chill night in Rio, I was playng some pool, and when i was leaving, walking to the bus stop, suddenly I realize that I was in front of one of the finnest old buildings of my city, at night, with good light and my camera in my backpack! There"
"Funky Petals" by Kris Kelley
Commentary: "This is the inside of one flower (type unknown). I know it looks pixelated, and fuzzy, but if you look closely, you will realize that's how it actually is."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Realize

AuthorQuotation

Bruce Barton

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Christopher Hill

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Edith Cavell

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Lao-Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Leo Aikman

The Golden Rule is of no use whatever unless you realize it's your move.

Marguerite Duras

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Realize

AuthorDateQuotation

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1938)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Realize

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

And, for the moment, that was the only fact I could clearly realize.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Realize

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Today physicians realize that PIs are not uncommon. (references)

Parasites that infect humans are much more widespread than many people realize. (references)

Only after treatment do some men realize they had a problem with sexual function. (references)

Business

An acceptable return on investment is difficult to realize under present rules. (references)

The reader needs to realize that latent demand may or may not represent real sales. (references)

Greece also needs general infrastructure improvement to fully realize its tourist potential. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

Qualifying distribution centers can realize significant tax savings. (references)

India

The FII's can buy, sell, and realize capital gains on their investment. (references)

Hong Kong

A tradition of prudent fiscal management has generally enabled Hong Kong to realize budget surpluses. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

They maintained that they did not realize anyone had been shot. (references)

Mexico

Women may not realize that procedures have been performed until after the fact, and many victims allegedly were reluctant to file complaints, although there are mechanisms for filing formal complaints with the National Medical Arbitration Commission and with national and state human rights commissions. (references)

Political Economy

Japan

But we realize that the Prime Minister faces an uphill struggle against entrenched interests and intractable economic issues. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

Nevertheless, Vietnam is committed to reducing or eliminating tariffs and other trade restrictions, since it is a requirement for its membership into AFTA, and if it is to realize its hopes for membership into the WTO. (references)

Travel

Sweden

The business traveler to Sweden will quickly realize that while most customs and procedures are similar to the United States there are a few quite noticeable differences. (references)

Worker Rights

Armenia

Only a few of the victims know before departure that they will work as prostitutes, but even these do not realize that they will have their documents and money confiscated and that they will be pressured to receive numerous clients every day to maximize their employer's profits. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Realize

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Alexander Benedetto

They're six months down the road and realize, wow, what a mistake we've made. How are we going to get out of this one. In walks Mr. Plant.

Art Linkletter

I'm very happy. I'm doing what I love to do. I have finally reached the age where I realize that while I might not be the brightest guy in the room, I probably have more wisdom than the rest of them.

Bill Maher

Well, I think he's a lot more like Bill Clinton than people realize. He's a complete political animal. I mean, that's one thing that bothers me about Bush is that he's always saying I don't listen to the polls. I follow my gut. Oh, please. Please.

Dennis Miller

But even I realize we have to pull the thong of indifference out of our ass and acknowledge that we share this planet with others.

Heather Mills McCartney

I didn't know any different. It's only like looking back on it I realize it was a very sort of strange life.

Joe Esposito

You know, we all say she must know what's going on, but probably never admitted it. She probably didn't want to admit it, to realize it. But she put up for a long time, and then she stopped putting up with it. That's why they got divorced.

Julianne Moore

That happens to me at the end of a movie. You know I'm fine at the beginning and then near the end I start getting depressed because I realize I've made all the wrong choices.

Rush Limbaugh

Our people realize more than before that the American soldier is a paper tiger that run in defeat after a few blows.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Realize

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Let us realize the importance of the attitude in which we stand before the world.

Grover Cleveland

1885-1889; 1893-1897Every thoughtful American must realize the importance of checking at its beginning any tendency in public or private station to regard frugality and economy as virtues which we may safely outgrow.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Government must realize the effect of its operations on the whole economy.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963The dynamic of democracy is the power and the purpose of the individual, and the policy of this administration is to give to the individual the opportunity to realize his own highest possibilities.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969But the unity we seek cannot realize its full promise in isolation.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974President I realize that it is difficult to communicate meaningfully across the gulf of four years of war.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981I am proud that this Administration has been able to provide the financial means to realize many of our legislative and administrative goals.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001We can't renew our country until we realize that governments don't raise children, parents do.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Realize

"Realize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 68.71% of the time. "Realize" is used about 2,238 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)68.71%1,5375,324
Lexical Verb (base form)31.29%7009,536
                    Total100.00%2,238N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Realize

Expressions using "realize": do you realize my position? not realize one's expectation not realize one's hope realize the facts to realize. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "realize": harder-to-realize.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Realize

Language Translations for "realize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

verstaan (realise, understand), besef (awareness, be aware of, be conscious of, consciousness, notion, realise, realization, sense, understand). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

realizoj (achieve, actualize, attain, execute, fulfil, pull off), zbatoj (act, apply, apply to, carry out, carry through, dispense, effectuate, enforce, execute, follow, obey, observe, practise), vë në jetë (reanimate), shndërroj në para, shes (bargain away, barter away, betray, dispose of, flog, handle, market, negotiate, sell, vend), plotësoj (amplify, appease, complement, complete, consummate, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, flesh, fulfil, fulfill, grant, gratify, indulge, make good, make out, make up, meet, perfect, perform, process, refill, replenish, satisfy, supplement, supply), përfytyroj (conceive, depicture, dream, dream up, envision, fancy, figure, figure to oneself, give rein to one's imagination, image, imagine, picture, visualize), njëmendësoj, marr (accede, acquire, assume, bring, catch, claim, collect, contract, draw, get, have, land, make, obtain, occupy, pick up, possess, receive, score, take, take in, take out), imagjinoj (depicture, dream, fancy, give reins to one's imagination, image, imagine, think up), fitoj (carry off, come by, come into, command, earn, fight down, gain, gain upon, get, get the best of, make, net, obtain, outfight, overcome, overthrow, possess, profit, pull in, score, score off, take, touch, win). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏ميز (characterize, confer distinction upon, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, favor, favour, grant a special privilege, honor, identify, know, label, make a distinction, mark, notice, observe, perceive, prefer, privilege, recognize, segregate, separate, set above others, set apart, set aside, single, single out, stamp), ‏نفذ (act, activate, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, commit, computerize, do, effect, effectuate, enforce, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, penetrate, percolate, perform, permeate, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, transfix, traverse), ‏نجز (accomplish, achieve, be executed, compass, complete, do, encompass, execute, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, gain, get hold of, get on, implement, negotiate, perfect, perform, polish off, pull off, put across), ‏لاحظ (catch sight of, eye, keep an eye on, look at, make out, note, notice, observe, perceive, recognize, regard, remark, see, spy, take notice, twig, view), ‏وعى (apprehend, awake, feel, grasp, perceive), ‏حقق ربحا, ‏حقق (achieve, attain, check, consummate, effectuate, fulfil, fulfill, get on, implement, inquire, obtain, prize, probe, produce, quest, search closely, see, slate, take, work out), ‏حول عقارات, ‏عرف (acquaint, constitution, convention, custom, define, figure out, form, habit, impart, know, know what's what, locate, manners, mores, rule, savvy, see, sort out, tradition, usage, use), ‏إستوعب (absorb, assimilate, compass, digest, get around, imbibe, ingest, stomach, suck, swallow, take in), ‏أتم (accomplish, achieve, cap, compass, consummate, fulfil, fulfill, negotiate, perfect, round off), ‏أخرج (bring out, direct, dispossess, draw out, egress, eject, fetch, get, give off, move out, obtrude, poke, produce, push along, quit, read out, remove, set, shell off, subtract, take out, vomit), ‏أدرك (apprehend, awake, comprehend, feel, follow, get at, observe, overhaul, overtake, penetrate, perceive, pierce, recognize, rejoin, see, see daylight, sense, sober up, take, twig, understand). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съзнавам (awake), реализирам (accomplish, achieve, actualize, put into effect), разбирам (apprehend, catch on, comprehend, cotton, discover, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick up, riddle, rumble, see, see through, sense, take, take in, think, understand, work out), осъществявам (accomplish, achieve, carry into effect, carry through, embody, fulfil, fulfill, implement, incarnate, instrument, materialize, put into effect), осъзнавам (become aware), нося печалба (bring the grist to the mill), нося доход, придавам реалност на, постигам (accomplish, achieve, acquire, come, compass, effect, effectuate, get, notch up, reach, secure, turn, turn in, work out), получавам доход, печеля (earn, gain, get, harvest, profit, pull down, score, take in, win), изобразявам реалистично. (various references)

   

Catalan

  

entendre (understand), comprendre (understand). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

體認 (realization), (achieve, attain, clear, dignity, inform, notify, pass through, reach), 体会 (realise, realised, realized, Realizing). (various references)

   

Czech

  

realizovat (capitalize, carry out, go through with, implement), zpenìžit, uvìdomit si (perceive, sense), uskuteènit (carry into effect, carry out, effect, execute, go through with, implement, make good, substantiate), provést (accomplish, carry out, effect, execute, exercise, finish, make, perform, render, ride out, see it through, show, undertake), prodat (dispose of, negotiate, sell), pochopit (comprehend, cotton on to, fathom, figure out, figure to oneself, get the message, grasp, perceive, take in, understand). (various references)

   

Danish

  

forstå (realise, understand). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bevatten (comprise, contain, include, realise, understand), beseffen (be aware of, be conscious of, realise, understand). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

konscii (be aware of, be conscious of, realise), kompreni (realise, understand). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

vera greiður um (be aware of, be conscious of), skilja (distinguish, understand), fata (understand). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فهمیدن (Catch, Compass, Comprehend, Follow, Get, Grasp, Gripe, Induct, Intend, Learn, Savor, Savvy, See, Skill, Tell, Understand), نقدکردن (Cash), واقعی کردن (Actualize), تحقق یافتن (Comeoff), دریافتن (Apprehend, Comprehend, Deduce, Discover, Perceive, Understand), درک کردن (Appreciate, Apprehend, Catch, Cognize, Compass, Comprehend, Coneive, Follow, Hear, Induct, Perceive, Savvy, Seize, Understand). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ymmärtää (comprehend, grasp, see, understand), tajuta (apprehend, be aware of, be conscious of, comprehend, grasp, have a taste for). (various references)

   

French

  

comprendre (realise). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ferstean (understand), begripe (understand). (various references)

   

German

  

verwirklichen (actualize, fulfill, make come true, put into effect, satisfy, to actualize, to realize, translate into action, turn into a reality), feststellen (ascertain, assess, detect, determine, diagnose, discover, establish, find, find out, lock, lock fast, observe, plot, tell, to ascertain, to determine, to realise), begreifen (appreciate, comprehend, conceive, fathom, grasp, grip, take in, to conceive, to realize, understand, understood, view). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πραγματοποιώ (accomplish, bring to pass, carry out, fulfil, materialize), υλοποιούμαι (materialise), εννοώ (comprehend, conceive, drive at, mean, purport, understand), αντιλαμβάνομαι (apprehend, awake to, aware, catch, perceive, realise, see through, soak up, tumble to). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לממש (actualize, effect, execute), לעשות הלכה למעשה, להוכח (be convinced, be present), להכיר (ascertain, find out, know, make out, recognize, spot, tell, understand), להגשים (carry out, consummate, fulfill, implement, materialize), להבין (apprehend, comprehend, follow, gather, grasp, know, make out, see, see daylight, see the light, take, take in, understand), לגשם (carry out, execute). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rádöbben, végrehajt (accomplish, carry out, effect, enforce, execute, fulfil, fulfill, implement, perform, prosecute, pull off, to accomplish, to bring into effect, to bring to effect, to carry out, to consummate, to effect, to effectuate, to execute, to fulfil, to implement, to perform, to realize, work out), pénzzé tesz (to convert into cash, to money, to realize, to turn into money), megvalósít (accomplish, achieve, actualize, attain, effect, effectuate, execute, implement, materialize, put into effect, put into practice, to attain, to bring into effect, to bring to effect, to bring to fruition, to effect, to effectuate, to flesh out, to make good, to materialize, to realise, to realize, to work out), megért (apprehend, comprehend, got, perceive, see, see the light, take in smth., to apprehend, to catch up, to comprehend, to conceit, to conceive of, to get, to get the message, to get the picture, to grasp, to perceive, to realize, to savvy, to tumble to, understand, vert), felfog (apprehend, comprehend, grasp, perceive, to apprehend, to comprehend, to conceit, to conceptualize, to entrap, to grasp, to intercept, to perceive, to realize, to savvy, to take in, to tumble to, understand), ért (catch, intelligibility, saw, seen, to catch on, to make of, to savvy, to see, understand). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

skilja (get a divorce, get divorced, understand), gera sig grein fyrir (be aware of, be conscious of). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyadari (be aware of), mendapat (find, gain, get, need, reap, receive), mencapai (achieve, attain, gain, reach, see: capai), insaf (be conscious of, consciousness, notion), dusin (be awake, be conscious of). (various references)

   

Italian

  

comprendere (apprehend, be understood, comprehend, comprise, contain, cover, grasp, include, incorporate, penetrate, take, to understand, understand), capire (apprehend, bottom, catch, comprehend, get, make out, penetrate, perceive, pin down, push, read, realise, see, see through, take in, to understand, twig, understand), realizzare (accomplish, achieve, actualize, carry out, clear, come off, come true, fulfil, fulfil oneself, fulfill, fulfill oneself, implement, realise, to realise), attuare (actualize, carry out, come true, put into effect). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

換金 (turn into money). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かんきん (bacillus, confinement, government funds, silent reading of sutra, turn into money). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

실현하십시요 (realise). (various references)

   

Malay

  

mengerti (understand). (various references)

   

Manx

  

toiggal (apprehension, comprehend, construction, construe, figure; comprehension, realization, understand), jannoo firrinagh (realization), creck son argid. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

forstå (figure out, gather, get, grasp, realise, understand). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

komprondé (understand), komprendé (understand), kèch (captivate, capture, catch, grapple, understand). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ealizeray.(various references)

   

Polish

  

rozumieć (understand), mieć świadomość (be aware of, be conscious of). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

compreender (bottom, catch, catch on, compass, comprehend, comprise, conceive, consist, embrace, get, grasp, grip, have, imply, know, make out, perceive, plumb, read, see, sense, sympathize, take in, to understand, twig, understand). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

înţelege (agree, apprehend, bottom, catch, come it, compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, grasp, interpret, latch on, make of, perceive, read, savvy, scheme, see, see into, seize, take, tumble to, twig, understand). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

понимать (apprehend, aprehend, catch on, comprehend, figure out, gain an insight into, get, get to know, perceive, savvies, sense, take, twig, understand, understood). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

tuig (comprehend, discern, perceive, understand). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

realizovati, uvideti (distinguish), shvatiti (apprehend, apprise, apprize, catch, catch on, comprehend, conceive, figure out, get, grasp, sense, tumble, twig, understand), sagledati (perceive), predočiti (envisage, point out), ostvariti (accomplish, achieve, actualize, bring about, carry out, compass, cotton on, effect, effectuate, materialize, objectify, perform), izvesti (bring out, derive, embroider, export, perform, present, stage, take out), ispuniti (carry out, cope, fill up, fulfil, fulfill, grout, implement, replenish, stand by, stuff). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

entender (believe, catch up, comprehend, cotton on, figure up, get, grasp, hear, infer, intend, interpret, make out, mean, realise, think, understand), comprender (appreciate, bear in, catch, catch the point, come across, comprehend, comprise, cover, dig, follow, get, grasp, include, incorporate, interpret, latch on, perceive, Pierce, realise, savvy, see, see the light, take in, to understand, trace, twig, understand), darse cuenta de (aware of, be alive to, feel, perceive, register). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

frustan (understand). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inse (accept, appreciate, discern, find, see, understand), förverkliga (actualize, implement, materialize, materialze), förstå (catch, comprehend, comprehending, figure out, follow, gather, grasp, have, Ken, know, latch on to, see, take, understand). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

máunawà (understand), máintindihán (understand). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

anlamak (absorb, accept, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be knowledgeable about, be up to, catch, catch on, click, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton on to, dawn on, deduce, dig, discern, discover, distinguish, fathom, feel, figure out, get, get a grip, get a grip on, get the message, grasp, grip, latch on to, make of, pick out, read, rumble, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, sum up, take in, twig, understand, wake to, waken, work out). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

paюmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

уявляти собі (envisage, envision, figure, ideate, imagine, prefigure, see), реалізувати (actualize, negotiate), здійснювати (actualize, bring to pass, compass, effect, effectuate, embody, execute, exercise, implement, make, materialize, perpetrate, practise, put into practice, wage), продавати (market, negotiate, sell, vend). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

sylweddoli, deall (intellect, intelligence, understand, understanding). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

na'atik (understand). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

-qonda (understand). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Realize

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

agnita, agnitis, agnitum, agnitus, agnoscant, agnoscar, agnoscat, agnosce, agnoscebam, agnoscebant, agnoscendum, agnoscent, agnoscentes, agnoscere, agnoscet, agnoscetur, agnoscit, agnoscitur, agnosco, agnoverunt, agnovi, agnovimus, agnovisset, agnovit, animadverto, intellecta, intellectu, intellectum, intellectus, intellegam, intellegant, intellegas, intellegat, intellegatis, intellege, intellegebant, intellegenda, intellegendum, intellegens, intellegent, intellegentes, intellegentia, intellegentibus, intellegentis, intellegere, intellegerem, intellegerent, intellegeres, intellegeret, intelleges, intelleget, intellegetis, intellegibile, intellegibiles, intellegimus, intellegis, intellegit, intellegite, intellegitis, intellegitur, intellego, intellegunt, intellexerant, intellexerint, intellexerit, intellexerunt, intellexeruntque, intellexi, intellexisset, intellexisti, intellexistis, intellexit, senserit, sensi, sensisset, sensit, sensu, sensum, sensus, sentiamus, sentiant, sentias, sentiebam, sentiens, sentientes, senties, sentiet, sentire, sentirent, sentiri, sentis, sentite, sentiunt. (various references)

Old English450-1100

onfindan. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

real. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Realize

Derivations

Words beginning with "realize": realized, realizer, realizers, realizes. (additional references)

Words ending with "realize": etherealize. (additional references)

Words containing "realize": etherealized, etherealizes, unrealized. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Realize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Neuflize, Ramalepe, Realien, realis, realise, Realisme, realiso, realite, realive, realixe, realiz, realizer, reallife, rearise, reelise, reglaze, relaze, relize, ruralise, trehalose. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Realize"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "realize" (pronounced rē"lī'z or rē"ulī'z)
4-ē" l ī' zidealize.
3-l ī' zactualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, brutalize, butterflies, cannibalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, creolize, criminalize, crystallize, decentralize, deinstitutionalize, demobilize, demoralize, denationalize, departmentalize, depersonalize, destabilize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, fictionalize, finalize, fireflies, formalize, fossilize, gadflies, generalize, globalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, liberalize, localize, marginalize, materialize, memorialize, metabolize, mineralize, mobilize, monopolize, moralize, multiplies, nationalize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, recapitalize, regionalize, renationalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, stabilize, sterilize, stylize, symbolize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize.
4-u l ī' zactualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, brutalize, cannibalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, criminalize, crystallize, decentralize, deinstitutionalize, demobilize, demoralize, denationalize, departmentalize, depersonalize, destabilize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, fictionalize, finalize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, globalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, liberalize, localize, marginalize, materialize, memorialize, metabolize, mineralize, mobilize, monopolize, moralize, nationalize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, recapitalize, regionalize, renationalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, stabilize, sterilize, symbolize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize.
3-l ī' zbutterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, stylize.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Realize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-r-z"

-1 letter: lazier.

-2 letters: aerie, ariel, laree, razee, zaire.

-3 letters: alee, aril, earl, ilea, izar, lair, lari, laze, lear, leer, liar, lier, lira, lire, rail, rale, raze, real, reel, rial, riel, rile, zeal.

-4 letters: ail, air, ale, are, ear, eel, era, ere, ire, lar, lea, lee, lei, lez, lie, ree, rei, ria, zee.

-5 letters: ae, ai, al.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-r-z"
 

+1 letter: laterize, realized, realizer, realizes, sleazier, velarize.

 

+2 letters: cartelize, equalizer, idealizer, laterized, laterizes, legalizer, linearize, marbleize, pearlized, realizers, serialize, velarized, velarizes, verbalize, vernalize.

 

+3 letters: aerosolize, allegorize, caramelize, cartelized, cartelizes, centralize, demoralize, depolarize, equalizers, eternalize, federalize, generalize, glazieries, idealizers, lateralize, legalizers, liberalize, linearized, linearizes, literalize, marbleized, marbleizes, mineralize, neutralize, palletizer, realizable, recanalize, regularize, relativize, repolarize, revalorize, revitalize, secularize, serialized, serializes, thermalize, unrealized, verbalized, verbalizer, verbalizes, vernalized, vernalizes, zealotries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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