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Real

Definition: Real

Real

Adjective

1. Being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow.

2. No less than what is stated; worthy of the name; "the real reason"; "real war"; "a real friend"; "a real woman"; "meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal"; "it's time he had a real job"; "it's no penny-ante job--he's making real money".

3. Being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma".

4. Not synthetic or spurious; of real or natural origin; "real mink"; "true gold".

5. Not to be taken lightly; "statistics demonstrate that poverty and unemployment are very real problems"; "to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real".

6. Possible to be treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor".

7. (economics) being value measured in terms of purchasing power; "real prices"; "real income"; "real wages".

8. Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare.

9. (of property) fixed or immovable; "real property consists of land and buildings; real estate".

10. : coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson.

11. : founded on practical matters; "a recent graduate experiencing the real world for the first time".

Adverb

1. Intensifiers; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; (`real' is sometimes used informally for `really' as in "I'm real sorry about it"; `rattling' is informal as in "a rattling good yarn").

Noun

1. Any rational or irrational number.

2. An old small silver Spanish coin.

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

Date "real" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Real

DomainDefinition

Computing

Real adj. Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to virtual in any of its jargon senses. Source: Jargon File.

Tips from 1870

Usage: Real, Really. Real is often incorrectly used as an adverb, especially by schoolgirls; as, "I think he is real mean." The grammar will be improved by substituting really for real, but the expression, as a whole, being applied to all kinds and degrees of offenses, has become meaningless.
Real is often carelessly used in the sense of very; as real pretty, real bright, real kind. Source: Slips of Speech.

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

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Specialty Definition: Datatype

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Editorial note: programming language also has discussion of type system.

In computer science, a datatype (often simply called type) is a statically assigned constraint on a programming language phrase that denotes the kinds of values it may take on and gives it certain semantic meaning for the purposes of preventing errors, building abstractions, documenting the program, and gaining some measure of runtime safety and efficiency. A type system provides a method for reasoning about program behavior based on type rules, which specify the ways in which typed program phrases can legally interact. The study of type systems is known as type theory. Programming languages which provide type systems are known as typed languages. Although the majority of programming languages are typed, some, known as untyped langugages, do not provide types.

Basis

The basic idea of typing is to give mere bits semantic meaning. Types are usually associated either with values in memory or with objectss such as variabless. Because any value is simply a set of bits for computers, there is no distinction in hardware even among memory addresses, instruction code, characters, integers and floating-point numbers. Numerical and string constants and expressions in code can and often do imply type in a particular context. For example, an expression 3.14 implies its type is floating-point while [1, 2, 3] implies type is a list of integers; typically an array.

In some languages, such as C and Java, some types are associated with the particular implementation. For example, in Java, type int is defined as a 4-byte signed integer. On the other hands, some languages only define the semantic behavior of all types.

The type system allows operations to be done relying on contexts by type. For example, in an arithmetic expression, a + b, if a and b are typed as integer, an underlying operation can be integer addition. If the type is real, floating-point addition is probably done. In generics the type of values determines which code will be executed.

Types make impossible to code some operations which cannot be valid in certain context. This mechanism effectively catches the majority of common mistakes made by programmers. For example, an expression "Hello, Wikipedia" / 3 is invalid because a string literal cannot be divided by an integer in the usual sense.

Using types in languages also improves documentation of code. For example, the declaration of a variable as being of a specific type documents how the variable is used. In fact, many languages allow programmers to define semantic types derived from builtin types; either composed of elements of one or more builtin types, or simply as aliases for names of builtin types.

Datatypes may be of first-class, second-class or third-class value.

Compile-time and run-time

While some languages use types during compile-time and do not have them during run-time, type information can be stored in memory for use during run-time. Many OOP languages keep certain information about type at run-time to make possible dynamic binding. In C++, such information is called RTTI.

Categories of types

Types can be classified with following categories:

Compatibility, equivalence and substitutability

The question of compatibility and equivalence is a complicated and controversial topic and it is related to the problem of substitutionality: that is, given type A and type B, are they equal types? compatible? can the value with type B be used in the place where the value of A?

If type A is compatible with type B, A is a subtype of B while not always vice versa. The definition is known as Liskov substitution principle.

Type checking

The process of verifying types is called type checking. If it occurs at compile-time, the whole type system is called statically typed. If it occurs at run-time, the type system is called dynamically typed. C, Java and Pascal are statically typed while most script languages, including Perl, Ruby and Python, are dynamically typed. One of the primary tasks of semantic analysis is type checking. In dynamic scope, type checking must be done at run-time because variables can be differently typed according to execution path.

Static type checking

Static type checking system usually assign a single type to each syntactic program entity (e.g., each bound variable name or expression). This is in contrast to dynamically typed systems, which do not require that syntactic entities be consistently typed.

Consider the following pseudocode example: 

var x;    // (1)
x = 5;    // (2)
x = "hi"; // (3)
In this example, (1) declares the name x; (2) binds the integer value 5 to the name x; and (3) binds the string value "hi" to the name x. A typical static type discipline would require that the name x be assigned a single type, and hence that all values bound to x be of the same type. In such a system, the above code fragment would be illegal, because (2) and (3) bind x to values of inconsistent type (in most type systems, no value can be both an integer and a string). By contrast, a purely dynamically typed system would permit the above program to execute, because the name x would not be required to have a consistent type.

Some statically typed languages, notably C and its derivatives, have a "back door" in the language that enables programmers to write type-incorrect code by deliberately circumventing the static type system. Languages with back doors are called weakly typed; languages without back doors are called strongly typed.

The presence of static typing in a programming language does not necessarily imply the absence of dynamic typing mechanisms. For example, Java is statically typed, but certain operations require the support of runtime type tests, which are a form of dynamic typing. See programming language for more discussion of the interactions between static and dynamic typing.

Widely known programming languages with static typing include the following: ML, C (a procedural programming language), Java.

Dynamic typing

The implementation of a dynamically typed language will catch errors related to the misuse of values---"type errors"---at the time the erroneous statement or expression is computed. In other words, dynamic typing catches errors during program execution. A typical implementation of dynamic typing will keep all program values "tagged" with a type, and checking the type tag before any value is used in an operation.

For example, consider the following pseudocode: 

var x = 5;     // (1)
var y = "hi";  // (2)
x + y;         // (3)
In this code fragment, (1) binds the value 5 to x; (2) binds the value "hi" to y; and (3) attempts to add x to y. In a dynamically typed language implementation, the value bound to x might be a pair (integer, 5), and the value bound to y might be a pair (string, "hi"). When the program attempts to execute line (3), the language implementation would check the type tags integer and string, discover that the operation + (addition) is not defined over these two types, and signal an error. However, if this is a weakly-typed language, such as Visual Basic, the code would run properly, yielding the result "5hi". There are problems to weakly typed languages, though. For example, would the result of the following code be 9 or "54"?

var x = 5;
var y = "4";
x + y
Many say that weak typing gets programmers into bad habits because it doesn't teach them to use explicit type conversion.

Well-known dynamically typed languages, in each of the major language paradigms, include the following: Lisp and its dialects, Perl, Smalltalk, Ruby, Python, Visual Basic

The Controversy between static and dynamic typing

The choice between static and dynamic typing requires some trade-offs. Static type disciplines operate on program source code rather than on the program execution. Therefore, they are able to detect certain kinds of errors without executing the program This "early detection" of errors is one of the key software engineering benefits of statically typed systems.

Dynamic typing sometimes simplifies the task of writing code, because it allows the programmer to write code that would be illegal in some static type systems. Also, certain language constructs (for example, an eval function that can execute arbitrary data as code) are difficult to provide in a purely statically typed language.

However, purely dynamically typed languages provide only "late detection" of errors---errors may not be detected until the program is actually run. This complicates both the task of verifying that code is correct a priori, and the task of debugging code a posteriori when errors do arise. Dynamic typing advocates claim that the benefits of flexibility outweigh these disadvantages, and seek to detect the sort of errors that would be detected by strong typing by using extensive unit testing.

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Real

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The Real (plural reais) is the monetary unit of Brazil. It was implemented in 1994, after a period of high inflation.

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Real line

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In mathematics, the real line is simply the set R of real numbers. However, this term is usually used when R is to be treated as a space of some sort, such as a topological space or a vector space. The real line has been studied at least since the days of the ancient Greeks, but it was not rigorously defined until 1872. Before and since that date, it has been a prolific example that has played a significant role in many branches of mathematics.

The real line carries a standard topology which can be introduced in two different, equivalent ways. First, since the real numbers are totally ordered, they carry an order topology. Second, the real numbers can be turned into a metric space by using the metric given by the absolute value: d(x,y) := |y − x|. This metric induces a topology on R equal to the order topology.

As a topological space, the real line is a topological manifold of dimension 1. It is paracompact and second countable as well as contractible and locally compact. It also has a standard differentiable structure on it, making it a differentiable manifold. (Up to diffeomorphism, there is only one differentiable structure that the topological space supports.) Indeed, R was historically the first example to be studied of each of these mathematical structures, so that it serves as the inspiration for these branches of modern mathematics. (Indeed, many of the terms above can't even be defined until R is already in place.)

As a vector space, the real line is a vector space over the field R of real numbers (that is, over itself) of dimension 1. It has a standard inner product, making it an Euclidean space. (The inner product is simply ordinary multiplication of real numbers.) As a vector space, it is not very interesting, and thus it was in fact 2-dimensional Euclidean space that was first studied as a vector space. However, we can still say that R inspired the field of linear algebra, since vector spaces were first studied over R.

R is also a premier example of a ring, even a field. It is in fact a real complete field, and was the first such field to be studied, so that it inspired that branch of abstract algebra as well. However, in such purely algebraic contexts, R is rarely called a "line".

For more information on R in all of its guises, see Real number.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Real line."

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Real number

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The real numbers are intuitively defined as numbers that are in one-to-one correspondence with the points on an infinite line—the number line. The term "real number" is a retronym coined in response to "imaginary number".

Real numbers may be rational or irrational; algebraic or transcendental; and positive, negative, or zero.

Real numbers measure continuous quantities. They may in theory be expressed by decimal fractions that have an infinite sequence of digits to the right of the decimal point; these are often (mis-)represented in the same form as 324.823211247... (where the three dots express that there would still be more digits to come, no matter how many more might be added at the end).

Measurements in the physical sciences are almost always conceived as approximations to real numbers. Writing them as decimal fractions (which are rational numbers that could be written as ratios, with an explicit denominator) is not only more compact, but to some extent expresses the sense of an underlying real number. It is as if one says "I'm writing down only the part of the number that I know; it's infinitely long, and my stopping after a finite number of digits echoes the fact that I'm stopping short of doing more and more refined experiments forever, and getting further along in the infinite series of digits, which would be the only way to avoid an approximate final result."

The real numbers are the central object of study in real analysis.

A real number is said to be computable if there exists an algorithm that yields its digits. Because there are only countably many algorithms, but an uncountable number of reals, most real numbers are not computable. Some constructivists accept the existence of only those reals that are computable. The set of definable numbers is broader, but still only countable.

Computers can only approximate most real numbers with rational numbers; these approximations are known as floating point numbers or fixed point numbers; see Real data type. Computer algebra systems are able to treat some real numbers exactly by storing an algebraic description (such as "sqrt(2)") rather than their decimal approximation.

Mathematicians use the symbol R (or alternatively, , the letter "R" in blackboard bold) to represent the set of all real numbers.

In mathematics, the term "real XXX" means that the underlying number field is the field of real numbers. For example real matrix, real polynomial and real Lie algebra.

History

Fractions had been used by the Egyptians around 1000 BC; around 500 BC, the Greek mathematicians lead by Pythagoras realized the need for irrational numbers. Negative numbers began to be generally accepted in the 1600s and were invented by Muslim mathematicians. The development of the calculus in the 1700s used the entire set of real numbers without having defined them cleanly. The first rigorous definition was given by Georg Cantor in 1871.

Definition

Construction from the rational numbers

Real numbers could be constructed as the topological completion of rational numbers. For details and other construction of real numbers, see Construction of real numbers

Axiomatic approach

Let R denote the set of all real numbers. Then:

The latter property is what differentiates the reals from the rationals. For example, the set of rationals with square less than 2 has a rational upper bound (e.g., 1.5) but no rational least upper bound, because the square root of 2 is not rational.

The real numbers are uniquely specified by the above properties. More precisely, given any two Dedekind complete ordered fields R1 and R2, there exists a unique field isomorphism from R1 to R2, allowing us to think of them as essentially the same mathematical object.

Properties

Completeness

The main reason for introducing the reals is that the reals contain all limits. More technically, the reals are complete (in the sense of metric spaces or uniform spaces, which is a different sense than the Dedekind completeness of the order in the previous section). This means the following:

A sequence (xn) of real numbers is called a Cauchy sequence if for any ε > 0 there exists an integer N (possibly depending on ε) such that the distance |xn - xm| is less than ε provided that n and m are both greater than N. In other words, a sequence is a Cauchy sequence if its elements xn eventually come and remain arbitrarily close to each other.

A sequence (xn) converges to the limit x if for any ε > 0 there exists an integer N (possibly depending on ε) such that the distance |xn - x| is less than ε provided that n is greater than N. In other words, a sequence has limit x if its elements eventually come and remain arbitrarily close to x.

It is easy to see that every convergent sequence is a Cauchy sequence. Now the important fact about the real numbers is that the converse is true:

Every Cauchy sequence of real numbers is convergent.
That is, the reals are complete.

Note that the rationals are not complete. For example, the sequence (1,1.4,1.41,1.414,1.4142,1.41421,...) is Cauchy but it does not converge to a rational number. (In the real numbers, in contrast, it converges to the square root of 2.)

The existence of limits of Cauchy sequences is what makes calculus work and is of great practical use. The standard numerical test to determine if a sequence has a limit is to test if it is a Cauchy sequence, as the limit is typically not known in advance.

For example the standard series of the exponential function

converges to a real number because for every x the sums

can be made arbitrarily small by choosing N sufficiently large. This proves that the sequence is Cauchy, so we know that the sequence converges even if we don't know ahead of time what the limit is.

"The complete ordered field"

The real numbers are often described as "the complete ordered field", a phrase that can be interpreted in several ways.

First, an order can be lattice complete. It's easy to see that no ordered field can be lattice complete, because it can have no largest element (given any element z, z + 1 is larger). So this is not the sense that is meant.

Additionally, an order can be Dedekind-complete, as defined in the section Axioms. The uniqueness result at the end of that section justifies using the word "the" in the phrase "complete ordered field" when this is the sense of "complete" that is meant. This sense of completeness is most closely related to the construction of the reals from Dedekind cuts, since that construction starts from an ordered field (the rationals) and then forms the Dedekind-completion of it in a standard way.

These two notions of completeness ignore the field structure. However, an ordered group (and a field is a group under the operations of addition and subtraction) defines a uniform structure, and uniform structures have a notion of completeness (topology); the description in the section Completeness above is a special case. (We refer to the notion of completeness in uniform spaces rather than the related and better known notion for metric spaces, since the definition of metric space relies on already having a characterisation of the real numbers.) It is not true that R is the only uniformly complete ordered field, but it is the only uniformly complete Archimedean field, and indeed one often hears the phrase "complete Archimedean field" instead of "complete ordered field". Since it can be proved that any uniformly complete Archimedean field must also be Dedekind complete (and vice versa, of course), this justifies using "the" in the phrase "the complete Archimedean field". This sense of completeness is most closely related to the construction of the reals from Cauchy sequences (the construction carried out in full in this article), since it starts with an Archimedean field (the rationals) and forms the uniform completion of it in a standard way.

But the original use of the phrase "complete Archimedean field" was by David Hilbert, who meant still something else by it. He meant that the real numbers form the largest Archimedean field in the sense that every other Archimedean field is a subfield of R. Thus R is "complete" in the sense that nothing further can be added to it without making it no longer an Archimedean field. This sense of completeness is most closely related to the construction of the reals from surreal numbers, since that construction starts with a proper class that contains every ordered field (the surreals) and then selects from it the largest Archimedean subfield.

Advanced properties

The reals are uncountable, that is, there are strictly more real numbers than natural numbers (even though both sets are infinite). This is proved with Cantor's diagonal argument. In fact, the cardinality of the reals is 2ω (see cardinal numbers), i.e., the cardinality of the set of subsets of the natural numbers. Since only a countable set of real numbers can be algebraic, almost all real numbers are transcendental. The nonexistence of a subset of the reals with cardinality strictly in between that of the integers and the reals is known as the continuum hypothesis. This can neither be proved nor be disproved, but is independent from the axioms of set theory.

The real numbers form a metric space: the distance between x and y is defined to be the absolute value |x - y|. By virtue of being a totally ordered set, they also carry an order topology; the topology arising from the metric and the one arising from the order are identical. The reals are a contractible (hence connected and simply connected), locally compact separable metric space, of dimension 1, and are everywhere dense. The real numbers are not compact. There are various properties that uniquely specify them; for instance, all unbounded, continuous, and separable order topologies are necessarily homeomorphic to the reals.

Every nonnegative real number has a square root in R, and no negative number does. This shows that the order on R is determined by its algebraic structure. Also, every polynomial of odd degree admits at least one root: these two properties make R the premier example of a real closed field. Proving this is the first half of one proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra.

The reals carry a canonical measure, the Lebesgue measure, which is the Haar measure on their structure as a topological group normalised such that the unit interval [0,1] has measure 1.

The supremum axiom of the reals refers to subsets of the reals and is therefore a second-order logical statement. It is not possible to characterize the reals with first-order logic alone: the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem implies that there exists a countable dense subset of the real numbers satisfying exactly the same sentences in first order logic as the real numbers themselves. The set of hyperreal numbers is much bigger than R but also satisfies the same first order sentences as R. Ordered fields that satisfy the same first-order sentences as R are called nonstandard models of R. This is what makes nonstandard analysis work; by proving a first-order statement in some nonstandard model (which may be easier than proving it in R), we know that the same statement must also be true of R.

Generalizations and Extensions

The real numbers can be generalized and extended in several different directions. Perhaps the most natural extension are the complex numbers which contain solutions to all polynomial equations. However, the complex numbers are not an ordered field. Ordered fields extending the reals are the hyperreal numbers and the surreal numbers; both of them contain infinitesimal and infinitely large numbers and thus are not Archimedean. Occasionally, formal elements +∞ and -∞ are added to the reals to form the extended real number line, a compact space which is not a field anymore but retains many of the properties of the real numbers. Self-adjoint operatorss on a Hilbert space (for example, self-adjoint square complex matrices) generalize the reals in many respects: they can be ordered (though not totally ordered), they are complete, all their eigenvalues are real and they form a real associative algebra. Positive-definite operators correspond to the positive reals and normal operators correspond to the complex numbers.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Real number."

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Real property

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Real property is type of property that is opposed to personal property. Real property is generally a term used in common law jurisdictions as opposed to immovable property in civil law jurisdictions (immobilier in French). Generally speaking most real property consists, at least partially, of real estate.

Real property is not just the ownership of property and buildings, it includes many legal relationships between owners of real estate that are purely conceptual such as the easement, where a neighboring property may have some right on your property, right-of-way, or the right to pass over a property, and incorporeal heridiments such as profit a prendre. Real property can also be held in various ways. In some jurisdictions it is held absolutely, in other places it may still be considered to be carved out of the Crown's ownership of all property in the realm. Such distinctions are important in terms of the law of escheat or when property reverts to the state because it lacks an owner or has been abandoned.

An important area of real property are the definitions of estates in land. These are various interests that may limit the ownership rights one has over the land. The most common and perhaps most absolute type of estate is the fee simple which signifies that the owner has the right to dispose of the property as she sees fit. Other estates include the life estate where the owner's rights to the property cease at their death and fee tail estates where the property at the time of death passes to the heirs of the body (i.e. children, grandchildren, descendants) of the owner of the estate before he died.

Estates may also be held jointly as joint tenants with right of survivorship or as tenants in common. The difference in these two types of joint ownership of an estate in land is basically the inheritability of the estate. In joint tenancy (or in marriage this is sometimes called tenancy of the entirety) the surviving tenant (or tenants) become the sole owner (or owners) of the estate. Nothing passes to the heirs of the deceased tenant. In some jurisdictions the magic words "with right of survivorship" must be used or the tenancy will assumed to be tenants in common. Tenants in common will have a heritable portion of the estate in proportion to their ownership interest which is presumed to be equal amongst tenants unless otherwise stated in the transfer deed. There are other types of estates in land that are used to prevent the alienation of land (also used in the law of trusts). Generally these are called future interests, an example being the rule against perpetuities, see for example The Rule in Shelley's Case.

Real property may not only be owned it may be leased in which the possession of the property is given to the tenant for a limited period of time. Such leases are also called estates such as an estate for years, a periodic tenancy or an estate at will.

Real property may also be owned jointly through the device of the condominium or cooperative.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Real property."

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Reality

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The term reality refers to everything that actually exists. Reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that there is, whether or not it is observable, accessible or understandable by science, philosophy or any other system of analysis. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas "existence" is often restricted to being.

Reality may also be defined in a more restricted way: Reality is that portion of ultimate reality which is accessible to scientific and philosophical observation, investigation and theoretical interpretation. Some portion of ultimate reality may lie beyond our scope to examine or even imagine.

What people consider science and philosophy is often defined culturally and socially. See socially constructed reality for more discussion on this point.

What reality is not

"Reality," the concept, is contrasted with a wide variety of other concepts, largely depending upon the intellectual discipline. It can help to understand what we mean by "reality" to note what we say is not real.

In philosophy, reality is contrasted with nonexistence (e.g., unicorns do not exist; so they are not real) and mere possibility (a mountain made of gold is merely possible, but is not real). Sometimes philosophers speak as though reality is contrasted with existence itself, though ordinary language and many other philosophers would treat these as synonyms. They have in mind the notion that there is a kind of reality--a mental or intensional reality, perhaps--that imaginary objects, such as the aforementioned golden mountain, have. Alexius Meinong is famous, or infamous, for holding that such things have so-called subsistence, and thus a kind of reality, even while they do not actually exist. Most philosophers find the very notion of "subsistence" mysterious and unnecessary, and one of the shibboleths and starting points of 20th century analytic philosophy has been the forceful rejection of the notion of subsistence--of "real" but nonexistent objects.

It is worth saying at this point that many philosophers are not content with saying merely what reality is not--some of them have positive theories of what broad categories of objects are real, in addition. See ontology as well as realism (philosophy); these topics are also briefly treated below.

In ethics, political theory, and the arts, reality is often contrasted with what is ideal.

In ethics, discussions of ethical perfectionism, what might be called "moral idealism" or the notion that we are obligated to be morally perfect human beings, runs up against notions of what is real about human nature and the human condition.

In political theory there is an old and distinguished tradition of inventing utopias and utopianism--those of Plato and Thomas More are the most famous--but these are often accused of ignoring the so-called facts of reality concerning human nature. Political liberalism, by contrast with conservatism, is usually thought of as being of the contrary view--that human nature is inherently changeable, and that there are no "facts of reality" concerning human nature, a view advocated in the twentieth century by the existentialists. And, consequently, utopianism is more often a feature of liberalism rather than conservatism.

In the arts there was a broad movement beginning in the 19th century, realism (which led to naturalism), which sought to portray characters, scenes, and so forth, realistically. This was in contrast and reaction to romanticism, which portrayed their subjects idealistically. Commentary about these artistic movements is sometimes put in terms of the contrast between the real and the ideal: on the one hand, the average, ordinary, and natural, and on the other, the superlative, extraordinary, improbable, and sometimes even supernatural. Obviously, when speaking in this sense, "real" (or "realistic") does not have the same meaning as it does when, for example, a philosopher uses the term to distinguish, simply, what exists from what does not exist.

In the arts, and also in ordinary life, the notion of reality (or realism) is also often contrasted with illusion. A painting that precisely indicates the visually-appearing shape of a depicted object is said to be realistic in that respect; one that distorts features, as Pablo Picasso's paintings are famous for doing, are said not to be unrealistic, and thus some observers will say, but with questionable grammatical correctness, that they are "not real." But there are also tendencies in the visual arts toward so-called realism and more recently photorealism that invite a different sort of contrast with the real. Trompe l'oeil (French, "fool the eye") paintings render their subjects so "realistically" that the casual observer might temporarily be deceived into thinking that he is seeing something, indeed, real--but in fact, it is merely an illusion, and an intentional one at that.

In psychiatry, reality, or rather, of being in touch with reality is integral to the notion of schizophrenia, since it has often been defined in part by reference to being "out of touch" with reality. The schizophrenic is said to have hallucinations and delusions which concern people and events that are not real. However there is controversy over what is considered out of touch with reality, particularly due to the noticeable comparison of the process of forcefully instituting individuals for expressing their beliefs in society to reality enforcement. The practices possible covert use as a political tool can perhaps be illustrated by the 18th Century psychiatric sentences in the U.S of black slaves for 'crazily' attempting to escape. See also anti-psychiatry and one its prominent figures, the ex-psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.

In each of these cases, discussions of reality, or what counts as "real," take on quite different casts; indeed, what we say about reality often depends on what we want to say it is not.

Reality, world views, and theories of reality

A common colloquial usage would have "reality" mean "perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes toward reality," as in "My reality is not your reality." This is often used just as a colloquialism indicating that the parties to a conversation agree, or should agree, not to quibble over deeply different conceptions of what is real. For example, in a religious discussion between friends, one might say (attempting humor), "You might disagree, but in my reality, everyone goes to heaven."

But occasionally--and particularly in the case of those who have been exposed to certain ideas from philosophy, sociology, literary criticism, and other fields--it is often thought that there simply and literally is no reality beyond the perceptions or beliefs we each have about reality. Such attitudes indicate anti-realism, that is, the view that there is no objective reality, whether acknowledged explicitly or not. These topics will be discussed in greater detail below.

If we really do literally mean by "reality" simply "beliefs about reality," then our article about reality would necessarily, to be complete, have to outline every world view (this is how the German word Weltanschauung is usually translated)--every broadly different way of "seeing" reality. In this sense, the topic of reality encompasses many other topics: perception, psychology generally, cognitive psychology and cognitive science, religion, sociology and anthropology, and topics in philosophy. For a broad overview on reality in that sense, the reader is enjoined to peruse Wikipedia or any general reference work. General encyclopedias are, after all, supposed to be descriptions of everything--or perceptions of everything, if the reader prefers.

But there is a way to make the topic of reality less cumbersome for present purposes: restrict the discussion to theories about the general topic of reality itself. Thus, for example, a certain Christian world view would not count as a theory of reality, but the theory that the Christian world view is a "construction" of reality would count as a theory about reality. It is theories about reality, in this sense, that philosophers discuss as part of metaphysics; such theories are also sometimes discussed in literary theory (which is, today, heavily influenced by Continental philosophy and heavily anti-realist) as well as in sociology and cultural anthropology.

Philosophical views of reality

Philosophy addresses two different aspects of the topic of reality: the nature of reality itself, and the relationship between the mind (as well as language and culture) and reality.

On the one hand, ontology is the study of being, and the central topic of the field is couched, variously, in terms of being, existence, "what is," and reality. The task in ontology is to describe the most general categories of reality and how they are interrelated. If--what is rarely done--a philosopher wanted to proffer a positive definition of the concept "reality," it would be done under this heading. As explained above, some philosophers draw a distinction between reality and existence. In fact, many analytic philosophers today tend to avoid the term "real" and "reality" in discussing ontological issues. But for those who would treat "is real" the same way they treat "exists," one of the leading questions of analytic philosophy has been whether existence (or reality) is a property of objects. It has been widely held by analytic philosophers that it is not a property at all, though this view has lost some ground in recent decades.

On the other hand, particularly in discussions of objectivity that have feet in both metaphysics and epistemology, philosophical discussions of "reality" often concern the ways in which reality is, or is not, in some way dependent upon (or, to use fashionable jargon, "constructed" out of) mental and cultural factors such as perceptions, beliefs, and other mental states, as well as cultural artifacts, such as religions and political movements, on up to the vague notion of a common cultural world view or Weltanschauung.

The view that there is a reality independent of any beliefs, perceptions, etc., is called realism. More specifically, philosophers are given to speaking about "realism about" this and that, such as realism about universals or realism about the external world. Generally, where one can identify any class of object the existence or essential characteristics of which is said to depend on perceptions, beliefs, language, or any other human artifact, one can speak of "realism about" that object.

One can also speak of anti-realism about the same objects. "Anti-realism" is the latest in a long series of terms for views opposed to realism. Perhaps the first was idealism , so called because reality was said to be in the mind, or "ideal" in that special sense. Berkeleyan idealism is the view, propounded by the Irish empiricist George Berkeley, that the objects of perception are actually ideas in the mind. On this view, one might be tempted to say that reality is a "mental construct"; this is not quite accurate, however, since on Berkeley's view perceptual ideas are created and coordinated by God. By the twentieth century, views similar to Berkeley's were called phenomenalism. Phenomenalism differs from Berkeleyan idealism primarily in that Berkeley believed that minds, or souls, are not merely ideas nor made up of ideas, whereas varieties of phenomenalism, such as that advocated by Russell, tended to go farther to say that the mind itself is merely a collection of perceptions, memories, etc., and that there is no mind or soul over and above such mental events. Finally, anti-realism became a fashionable term for any view which held that the existence of some object depends upon the mind or cultural artifacts. The view that the so-called external world is really merely a social, or cultural, artifact, called social constructionism, is one variety of anti-realism. Cultural relativism is the view that social issues such as morality are not absolute, but at least partially cultural artifact.

Reality is also the name of a (usually) single-panel web comic by John-Paul Vitale.

See also: Ontology, Simulated reality, hyperreality, virtual reality

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Reality."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Real

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

REAL

DanishREAL-arkitekturElectrical Engineering, Post & Telecom

REAL

DutchReconfigurable, embedded architecture,low-cost/low-powerElectrical Engineering, Post & Telecom

REAL

EnglishReconfigurable,embedded architecture,low-cost/low-powerElectrical Engineering, Post & Telecom

REAL

Greekεπαναδιαρθρώσιμη έγκοιτη αρχιτεκτονική χαμηλού κόστους/χαμηλής ισχύοςElectrical Engineering, Post & Telecom
REMISEnglishReal Estate Management Information SystemComputer - Computer - Computer - Computer - Computer - (GREP, EMACS, ...)

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

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Synonyms: Real

Synonyms: actual (adj), existent (adj), genuine (adj), literal (adj), material (adj), real(a) (adj), substantial (adj), tangible (adj), true (adj), veridical (adj), rattling (adv), really (adv), very (adv), real number (n). (additional references)
Antonyms: insubstantial (adj), nominal (adj), unreal (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Real

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

Existence

Real, actual, positive, absolute; true; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential.

Identity

Facsimile; (copy); homoousia: alter ego; (similar); ipsissima verba; (exactness); same; self, very, one and the same; very thing, actual thing; real McCoy; no other; one and only; in the flesh.

Land

Acres; real estate. (property); landsman.

Number

Positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real; complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.

Property

Landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground; (earth); acquest, messuage, toft.

Free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland; chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.

Rite

Eucharist, Lord's supper, communion; the sacrament, the holy sacrament; celebration, high celebration; missa cantata; asperges; offertory; introit; consecration; consubstantiation, transubstantiation; real presence; elements; mass; high mass, low mass, dry mass.

Security

Noun: security; guaranty, guarantee; gage, warranty, bond, tie, pledge, plight, mortgage, collateral, debenture, hypothecation, bill of sale, lien, pawn, pignoration; real security; vadium.

Truth

Plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth; nuda veritas; the very thing; not an -illusion; real Simon Pure; unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth; the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; just the thing.

Adjective: real, actual; (existing); veritable, true; right, correct; certain; substantially true, categorically true, definitively true; true to the letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious; unreconfuted, unconfuted; unideal, unimagined; realistic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Real

English words defined with "real": Real action, Real assets, Real Estate Investment Trust, real estate loan, real life, real matrix, real presence, Real servitude, real world ♦ Things real. (references)
Specialty definitions using "real": APPRAISER, REAL ESTATE, Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time ♦ Design In Real Time, DIRECTOR, SECURITIES AND REAL ESTATE ♦ Get a real computer! ♦ improved real estate ♦ LAWYER, REAL ESTATE ♦ real estate developer, real estate fund, real estate investments trust, real estate owned, real estate trust, real file, Real good, Real Jam, real mode, real operating system, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Real Rights, Real Soon Now, real system environment, Real Time Streaming Protocol, real type, real user, real value wages, Real Video, real wages ♦ SALES AGENT, REAL ESTATE ♦ wages in real terms. (references)
Etymologies containing "real": Underbuy. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Real" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (absolute, actual, concrete, effective, flesh and blood, hard, historic, historical, objective, real, realistic, substantial, true, veritable), German (actual, practical, real, realistic, tangible), Papiamen (regal, royal), Portuguese (absolute, actual, factual, incarnate, kingly, pence, penny, positive, practicable, practical, real, regal, royal, sterling, tangible, true, unfeigned, veritable, very, visual), Romanian (actual, effective, effectual, factual, live, natural, proper, real, sheer, sooth, substantial, tangible, true, truthful, very), Spanish (actual, doable, king, king size, kingly, real, regal, royal), Swedish (actual, factual, practical, real).

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Modern Usage: Real

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You have some real issues with women, you know that (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

He's just so confident, it can't be real. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Real peace is not just the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

Welcome to the real world (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You talk about that mountain like it was a real woman (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston)

Lyrics

Are you for real (Tell Me It's Real; performing artist: K-Ci & JoJo)

I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me (Real world; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

Ya never kept a secret, always stayed real (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac)

But its real (Caught Up in You; performing artist: 38 Special)

I get real high (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes)

Clever

Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. (references; author: Mark Twain)

God will supply all your real needs. (references; author: unknown)

I need someone real bad… Are you real bad? (references; author: unknown)

Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener. (references; author: unknown)

People who do the world's real work don't usually wear neckties. (references; author: unknown)

Tongue Twisters

Real wristwatch straps. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

All the Real Girls (2003)

Ciudad deportiva del Real Zaragoza (1974)

The Real Magees (1973)

Santo y el aguila real (1973)

The Real Bruce Lee (1973)

Song Titles

I'm Real (performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

Real Real Real (performing artist: Jesus Jones)

Real Love (performing artist: Jody Watley)

Tell Me It's Real (performing artist: K-Ci & JoJo)

Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing (performing artist: Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell)

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

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Commercial Usage: Real

DomainTitle

References

  • Adler Real Estate AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • American Real Estate Partners, L.P.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • ANA Real Estate Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Bradley Real Estate, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Two Girlfriends Get Real About Cosmetic Surgery (reference)

  • The Publisher-Public Official: Real or Imagined Conflict of Interest? (reference)

  • Livewire Real Lives Christine Anu (reference)

  • Asperger Syndrome and Adolescence: Helping Preteens and Teens Get Ready for the Real World (reference)

  • REAL TIME '91 : Seventh Conference REAL TIME '91 on Computer Applications in Nuclear, Particle, and Plasma Physics : June 24-28, 1991, Jèulich, Fed. Rep. of Germany : together with short course on new backplane bus architectures and seminar on real time o (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Real

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Photo Album: Real

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Smoking might look cool in the movies, but in real life it stinks!. Credit: CDC.

Glacier Bay topographic mapping Cartoon by Clarence Petersen recalls real incident Off of WESTDAHL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Blowup of area right at base of Oregon continental slope Note oblique lineations at base of continental slope These are real features as sounding system artifacts are farther to west (left). Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

One net out while a second net remains on the real during trawling operations. Yellow fringe lines on cod end of net on reel is chaffing gear that protects cod end from abrasion on bottom. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The shoreline is armored in many coastal areas. This bulkhead, while protecting upland real estate from erosion, limits the growth of salt marshes and provides a direct pathway into the estuary for runoff containing contaminants from upland sources. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Figure 47. Sigsbee sounding machine, designed by Lieutenant Charles D. Sigsbee, USN. Sigsbee's sounding machine was constructed on the basis of the Thomson wireline sounding machine. The Sigsbee apparatus represents the first real industrial construction of such a device. It was the prototype for the majority of wireline machines subsequently invented and used. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 25. Bachmann penetration tubes. These instruments are not properly sounders, but an accessory for use with the instruments of the time. The bacteriologist Martin Bachman designed these tubes in order to elongate the real sounder tube and penetrate more deeply into the sediment. These tubes achieved deep penetration but little sample material. First used on VALDIVIA in 1898. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

E-8 Joint STARS can maintain real time surveillance.

More of Illinois' prime farmland soils are converted from agriculture to real estate property every day. This field near Peoria, Illinois has produced its final crop. Credit: Bob Nichols.

WOW, the Wonderful Outdoor World program, brings a taste of a real camping experience to urban youth. Credit: Unknown.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Real
 

"Is it real" by Domagoj T.
Commentary: "Sunflower on the move."		"Real sky" by Claire Jones
Commentary: "Sky 7/06/03 20:09."

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

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Familiar Quotations: Real

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Hamilton

Our real disease -- which is Democracy.

Confucius

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Oscar Wilde

One's only real life is the life one never leads.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real action is in silent moments.

St. Jerome

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Thomas Carlyle

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Real

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

The greatest part of things really useful to the life of man, and such as the necessity of subsisting made the first commoners of the world look after, as it cloth the Americans now, are generally things of short duration; such as, if they are not consumed by use, will decay and perish of themselves: gold, silver and diamonds, are things that fancy or agreement hath put the value on, more than real use, and the necessary support of life. (Second Treatise of Government)

Marbury v. Madison

1803

If such be the real state of things, this is worse than solemn mockery. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever-expanding union of the workers. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The following classes of contracts are excepted from dissolution by Article 299 and, without prejudice to the rights contained in Article 297 (b) of Section IV, remain in force subject to the application of domestic laws, orders or regulations made during the war by the Allied and Associated Powers and subject to the terms of the contracts: (a) Contracts having for their object the transfer of estates or of real or personal property where the property therein had passed or the object had been delivered before the parties became enemies; (b) Leases and agreements for leases of land and houses (c) Contracts of mortgage, pledge or lien; (d) Concessions concerning mines, quarries or deposits; (e) Contracts between individuals or companies and States provinces, municipalities, or other similar juridical persons charged with administrative functions, and concessions granted by States, provinces, municipalities, or other similar juridical persons charged with administrative functions. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Real

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

It was merely a blind to conceal his real situation with another

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

When he appeared at last in his real character, I noticed a remarkable change in his behaviour

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Lofty walls guarded from all the distractions of real life the mystic Sultana, who had the Crucified for Sultan

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He knowed when he met a real testifier to the Lord

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Real

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These problems are real and painful and can be severe. (references)

Above all, initial honesty is of real value in the long-term handling of any problems. (references)

In real life, rabid animals look like they have foam in their mouth because they have more saliva. (references)

Business

Rural per capita real income doubled. (references)

Several real estate developers have also entered the market with funds. (references)

The new era of real estate development can be divided into three periods. (references)

Children

Indonesia

Moreover, government spending on health care also has dropped in real terms due to the economic downturn. (references)

Belarus

However, continued high inflation and the sharp decline in the value of the ruble greatly reduced the real worth of those limited subsidies. (references)

Ecuador

Government spending on education continued to decline, both in real terms and as a proportion of GDP. There are more than 20 NGO's that promote child welfare. (references)

Civil Liberties

Syria

Recognized religious groups receive free utilities and are exempt from real estate taxes and taxes on official vehicles. (references)

China

Newspapers and magazines appeared to be increasingly bold in their economic reporting--particularly on finance and real estate issues. (references)

Estonia

Although a decision was made in 2000 to combine ETV and Estonian (state/public) Radio into one entity, no real movement toward that end has taken place. (references)

Discrimination

Belize

These occupations include fishing, souvenir manufacturing, sightseeing tours, accounting, insurance, real estate, and legal services. (references)

Economic History

Ethiopia

Real GDP: $6.1 billion. (references)

India

Indian real estate portal. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

Detainees routinely claimed that they had been tortured, making it difficult to separate real from fabricated incidents. (references)

Turkmenistan

The commission oversees the work of law enforcement agencies, the military, and the judiciary, but it appears to have little real authority. (references)

Pakistan

Under this code, a man, his family, and his tribe are obligated to take revenge for wrongs--either real or perceived--to redeem their honor. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

In real terms, the Government increased funding for Aboriginal benefits by 5 percent over the previous fiscal year. (references)

Botswana

The ultimatum highlights the fact that the Government has made little real progress since 1996 when international attention was focused on the problem of resettling Basarwa living in the CKGR. Both the Basarwa and the Government are seeking out concerned NGO's to assist with the resettlement process and to address the larger issue of improving the Basarwa's standard of living without sacrificing what remains of their traditional way of life. (references)

Minorities

Philippines

Muslims report that they have difficulty renting rooms in boarding houses or being hired for retail work if they use their real name or wear distinctive Muslim dress. (references)

Political Economy

Lithuania

Real GDP reportedly increased by 5.7 percent. (references)

Paraguay

In 2000 economic growth declined by 0.4 percent in real terms. (references)

Vietnam

People's Councils, in contrast, have very little real authority. (references)

Political Rights

Turkmenistan

The 50-member Parliament (Mejilis) routinely supports presidential decrees and has no real independence. (references)

Yemen

Decisionmaking and real political power still rest in the hands of the executive branch, particularly the President. (references)

Bangladesh

All of the major parties have boycotted Parliament while in the opposition, claiming that they had little opportunity to engage in real debate on legislation and national issues. (references)

Trade

Burma

Due to high domestic inflation, interest rates are sharply negative in real terms. (references)

Cyprus

In general, there has never been a real problem with credit availability in Cyprus. (references)

Kenya

These institutions normally invest their funds in real estate and listed securities. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Enterprises in real estate and agro-processing activities enjoy a tax holiday of 5 years. (references)

Romania

Office space is also available from the many real estate agencies active in all major cities. (references)

Netherlands

It might be necessary to engage a real estate agent (makelaar), although their fees are high. (references)

Women

Syria

Women are not impeded from owning or managing land or other real property. (references)

Benin

By law women have equal inheritance and property rights, but local custom in some areas prevents them from inheriting real property. (references)

Azerbaijan

In rural areas, women have no real recourse against assaults by their husbands or others; no laws exist regarding spousal abuse or spousal rape. (references)

Worker Rights

Russia

It is not a number used for real salaries. (references)

Burma

Low and falling real wages in the public sector have fostered widespread corruption. (references)

Nicaragua

While some of these unions have real collective bargaining power, others are primarily symbolic. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SYMBOL, n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" -- things which having no longer any utility continue to exist because we have inherited the tendency to make them; as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. They were once real urns holding the ashes of the dead. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

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

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Spoken Usage: Real

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Christopher Reeve

It's funny how the psyche and the body shut down when you're in real crisis. Mine shut downs at odd moments anyway.

Dennis Miller

I've noticed that in the Middle East when they burn the American Flag, they aren't even using real flags.

James Dobson

That's not really new. When I got my Ph.D. at USC, that's what everybody was talking about it. Get them out of the home, get them into early education. It just hasn't panned out. Made real problems.

John Hartmann

Well, I just want to mingle with the American people, talk with some real folks, maybe get a Diet Coke or something.

John McCain

Life in public service, you not only have to be careful about what you do, but you have to be careful about what you appear to do. And that is the real lesson.

Julie Andrews

Used to have to go into either the subway or I used to have to go out in our garden with a pair of binoculars. Because I could tell the difference between the hum of a rocket and a real airplane.

Naomi Campbell

Liquor. That just makes me feel everything but my real self. It makes me not give my true emotions, so.

Peter Jennings

I mean, I think, you know, there's real danger, I think, if you flog this stuff. And I think occasionally people do. If you flog this stuff, you inflame people.

Robert Novak

Mr. Vice President, I'd like to turn to the domestic arena. One of the real problems, I think, for the county and for the Republican Party and for the administration has been this issue of corporate corruption.

Rush Limbaugh

Every year on this Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we regale you with the real story of this holiday.

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

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Speeches: Real

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Adams

1797-1801Frugality is a great revenue, besides curing us of vanities, levities, and fopperies, which are real antidotes to all great, manly, and warlike virtues.

Woodrow Wilson

1913-1921Some new things, as we look frankly upon them, willing to comprehend their real character, have come to assume the aspect of things long believed in and familiar, stuff of our own convictions.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Since VJ-day the wartime housing shortage has been growing steadily worse and pressure on real estate values has increased.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Perhaps now, as we step back from danger, we can together make real progress in this vital field.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Because they must provide real security to the people living in the countryside.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977During this same period the United States real defense spending declined.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981American consumers have risen to the challenge, and we have experienced real improvements in consumption patterns.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989In other words, the Federal Government will hold the line on real spending.

George Bush

1989-1993Real estate has led our economy out of almost all the tough times we've ever had.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Again, I ask you to pass a real patients' bill of rights.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Real

"Real" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.87% of the time. "Real" is used about 22,821 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
Adjective (general or positive)99.87%22,791387
Unclassified Items0.06%1397,576
Adverb (general)0.06%1397,576
                    Total100.00%22,821N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Real

The following table summarizes the usage of "real" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
RealLast name2,0006,342
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Real

CountryNameCountryName
Belgium

Real Software NV

Brazil

Banco Real S/A

Canada

Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust

China

Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Real Esta

Finland

Polar Real Estate Corporation

Germany

Adler Real Estate AG

Greece

N.B.G. Real Estate Development Co.

Indonesia

Jaya Real Property Tbk. P.T.

Japan

ANA Real Estate Co., Ltd.

South Africa

Real Africa Durolink Holdings Limited

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Real

Expressions using "real": a real man ♦ as a real need ♦ be a real horror ♦ be real ♦ brazilian real ♦ Chattels real ♦ Debugging and specification of Ada real time embedded systems ♦ design In Real Time ♦ entailing of real estate ♦ for real ♦ GDP in real terms ♦ get a real computer! ♦ gross domestic product in real terms ♦ he is a real pet ♦ he's a real dynamo ♦ in real life ♦ in real terms ♦ in real time ♦ it's a real roaster today! ♦ make real ♦ near real time ♦ pledging of the income from real property ♦ Puerto Real ♦ real account ♦ real action ♦ real ale ♦ real assets ♦ real charge ♦ real coffee ♦ real composition ♦ Real County ♦ real estate ♦ real estate administrative services ♦ real estate agency ♦ real estate agent ♦ real estate broker ♦ real estate closing ♦ real estate credit company ♦ real estate developer ♦ real estate fund ♦ Real Estate Investment Trust ♦ real estate investments trust ♦ real estate loan ♦ real estate manager ♦ real estate market ♦ real estate office ♦ real estate owner ♦ real estate property ♦ real estate tax ♦ real estate trust ♦ real facts ♦ real file ♦ real gas ♦ real GDP ♦ real GNP ♦ real gross domestic product ♦ real gross national product ♦ real hack ♦ real image ♦ real income ♦ real interest rate ♦ real life ♦ real line ♦ real madness ♦ real man ♦ real matrix ♦ real McCoy ♦ real meaning ♦ real mode ♦ real number ♦ real operating system ♦ real pearl ♦ real politic ♦ real power ♦ real precession ♦ real presence ♦ real Programmer ♦ real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ real property ♦ real property tax ♦ real radius of the earth ♦ real rate ♦ real reserve ♦ real security ♦ real servitude ♦ real Soon Now ♦ real storage ♦ real stuff ♦ real system environment ♦ real tennis ♦ real terms ♦ real thing ♦ real time ♦ real time clock messages ♦ real time processing ♦ real Time Streaming Protocol ♦ real time traffic control ♦ real type ♦ real user ♦ real value ♦ real value wages. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "real": real-ale, real-balance, real-compiler, real-death, real-estate, real-estate business, real-estate tax, real-food, real-growth, Real-ix, real-life, real-live, real-looking, real-money, real-ness, real-nightmare-dream, real-space, real-term, real-terms, real-time, real-time, Real-Time Euclid, Real-Time Mentat, Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling, Real-Time Operating System, real-time operation, Real-Time Pascal, real-time processing, real-time structured analysis, real-wage, real-world.

Ending with "real": hyper-real, non-real.

Containing "real": Landscape-as-real-estate, let's-get-down-to-real-business, long-ago-real-ward, Software-real-time.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Real

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

real estate

65,496

real estate marketing

1,722

real yellow page

16,330

real doll

1,691

real estate listing

8,479

dallas real estate

1,679

florida real estate

5,295

california real estate

1,658

real

4,788

real audio

1,648

real madrid

4,772

real estate license

1,643

real one player

4,215

real sex

1,521

prudential real estate

3,634

remax real estate

1,464

real estate agent

3,202

seattle real estate

1,429

las vegas real estate

2,987

new jersey real estate

1,425

the real one

2,764

maine real estate

1,387

louisville real estate

2,724

arizona real estate

1,337

real world

2,566

columbus ohio real estate

1,336

colorado real estate

2,360

real estate company

1,336

century 21 real estate

2,284

real estate investing

1,307

real estate school

2,171

hawaii real estate

1,299

north carolina real estate

2,149

montana real estate

1,274

commercial real estate

1,943

coldwell banker real estate

1,233

real estate investment

1,797

texas real estate

1,227

real estate sale

1,786

san diego real estate

1,222
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Real

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

Afrikaans

  

effektief (actual). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

realitet (actuality, case, fact, matter of fact, outness, reality, substantiality), real (absolute, actual, concrete, effective, flesh and blood, hard, historic, historical, objective, realistic, substantial, true, veritable), i vërtetë (actual, authentic, bona fide, downright, effective, faithful, flesh and blood, genuine, objective, perfect, positive, practical, proper, pucka, right, substantial, true, truthful, uncoined, unfailing, unfeigned, veracious, veritable, virtual), i patundshëm (eternal, immovable, unshakeable), e vërtetë (case, fact, reality, sooth, truth, Verity). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مقيس يالقوة الشرائية, ‏مادي (bodily, concrete, corporeal, earthly, material, materialistic, not abstract, physical, substantial, tangible), ‏واقعي (actual, concrete, de facto, down to earth, factual, hard, hardheaded, literal, naturalistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, prose, realistic, sober, tangible, true, virtual), ‏حقيقي (actual, authentic, effective, essential, factual, genuine, intrinsic, intrinsical, positive, proper, realistic, right, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, veritable, very), ‏غير زائف (bona fide, genuine), ‏صحيح (accurate, alright, aright, be in the right, consonantal, correct, entire, exact, faithful, hale, honest, indeed, ortho, plumb, precise, proper, pure, reasonable, regular, right, seemly, sincere, true, unbroken, valid, veracious, veritable, whole), ‏صادق (befriend, bona fide, chum, endorse, friend, genuine, honest, indorse, plain spoken, sanction, sincere, true, truthful, unaffected, unfeigned, veracious, whole-hearted), ‏خالص (clear, mere, pure, unadulterated, unmixed), ‏الي اقصي حد, ‏الكائن (being), ‏رجل ذو همة, ‏شىء حقيقي (substantial). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

същински (arrant, positive, proper, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, veritable, very), съвсем (all, altogether, clean, clear, completely, directly, dooms, fairly, just, largely, most, plain, precious, quite, regularly, simply, sopping, spang, thoroughly, to the core, to the wide, totally, up, well, wholly, wide), реален (actual, concrete, live, natural, practicable, pragmatic, substantial, tangible), наистина (actually, all right, for real, forsooth, in all verity, in sooth, indeed, really, sure, sure enough, surely, true, truly, verily, yea), много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), автентичен (authentic, genuine, original, simon-pure), истински (actual, authentic, authentically, bona fide, factual, for real, genuine, genuinely, good, honest, mere, natural, par excellence, positive, precious, proper, pucka, pukka, pure, regular, regularly, right, right-down, sheer, simon-pure, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, true, true blue, true born, truly, truthful, unadulterated, unfeigned, veridical, veritable, very, virtual), действителност (actuality, deed, fact, positive, reality, sooth, truth), действително число, действителна величина, действителен (actual, concrete, effective, factual, objective, operative, sound, true, valid, virtual). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

真正 (genuine, true). (various references)

   

Czech

  

opravdový (authentic, earnest, genuine, serious, sincere, undisguised, veritable). (various references)

   

Danish

  

virkelig (actual, factual, practical). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

effectief (actual, effective, effectual, efficacious). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

reala (actual, practical), fakta (factual), efektiva (actual). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

veruligur (actual, practical). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

موجود (Available, Bound, Existent, Extant, Handy, Life, Present, Stock, Thing), واقعی (Actual, Essential, Genuine, Lifelike, Literal, Right, Sterling, True, Unfeigned, Veracious, Veritable, Very, Virtual), حقیقی (Actual, Genuine, Intrinsic, Rightful, True, Unfeigned, Veracious), غیرمصنوعی , طبیعی (Indigenous, Innate, Intrinsic, Natural, Normal, Physical), صمیمی (Chum, Chummy, Cordial, Hailfellow, Heartfelt, Intimate, Near, Privy, Sincere, Unaffected, Warm), اصل (Element, Genuine, Germ, Inception, Maxim, Mother, Motif, Paternity, Point, Principle, Provenance, Quintessence, Root, Stem, Strain), راستین (True), بی خدشه . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

todellinen (actual, practical, true, veritable). (various references)

   

French

  

effectif, vrai, réel. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

feitlik (actual, actually, as a matter of fact, factual, in fact, indeed). (various references)

   

German

  

wirklich (absolutely, actual, factual, genuine, genuinely, indeed, intrinsic, intrinsically, just, literally, objective, objectively, positively, practical, proper, quite, really, substantial, sure enough, true, truly), tatsächlich (absolutely, actual, actually, as a matter of fact, defacto, effective, genuinely, in fact, indeed, objectively, practical, really, true, truly, virtual), echt (authentic, bona fide, fast, genuine, genuinely, legit, natural, positively, proper, properly, pukka, really, sincere, thorough, true, truthful, typical, unaffected, unfeigned, veritable), wahr (genuine, intrinsic, rank, true, truthful, veritable), real (actual, practical, realistic, tangible), faktisch (actual, factual). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

REAL (embedded architecture, low-cost/low-power, reconfigurable), έμπρακτα, ρεάλι, πραγματικόσ (actual, defacto, factual, realistic, veritable, virtual), πραγματικός (actual, factual, veritable). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ממשי (actual, concrete, effective, live, material, palpable, substantial, substantive, tangible, veritable), מציאותי (actual, down to earth, existent, realistic), אמתי (actual, genuine, sincere, true, truthful), ראלי. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

igazi (actual, practical, proper, pucka, pukka, pure, quite the thing, right, simon-pure, some, tangible, veritable, very), valóságos (actual, bodily, factual, live, practical, pukka, simple, veritable, very), valódi (actual, authentic, genuine, intrinsic, intrinsical, proper, pure, simon-pure, sterling, substantial, true, true born, true to the core, veritable, very). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

raunverulegur (actual, practical), árangursríkur (actual). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sejati (genuine, true), maujud (concrete, tangible), curai (apart, clear, detached, evident, loose), betul-betulan, benar-benar (actually, seriously, veritable). (various references)

   

Italian

  

reale (actual, actually, concrete, effective, factual, live, objective, practical, really, royal, royally, true), vero (actual, genuine, legit, perfect, sheer, true, truthful, unfeigned, veracious, veritable, very, virtual), veramente (actual, actually, downright, effective, forsooth, in fact, indeed, rather, really, truly). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

真箇 (true), 真個 (true), 真の (genuine, true, utter), リーマン幾何学 (reactance, reaction, reactor, realism, realist, realistic, reality, realtime, real-time system, rear, rear drive, rear engine, rear seat, rear window, reel, Rias, Riemannian geometry), 本格的 (earnest, full-dress, fundamental, genuine, normal, regular, typical), 実勢 (actual, true). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

リアル , しんの (genuine, true, utter), しんこ (pickled vegetables, pickles, true), ほんかくてき (earnest, full-dress, fundamental, genuine, normal, regular, typical), じっせい (actual, true). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

진짜 (genuine). (various references)

   

Manx

  

rieugh (actual, material, true), firrinagh (authentic, candid, devout, faithful, honest, sincere, sterling, true, unaffected, veracious), feer (authentic, correct, exceptionally, extremely, pure, regular, sheer, sincere, true, truthful, veritable, very), eer (common, common vulgar, even, express, own). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

efektivo (actual). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ealray.(various references)

   

Polish

  

rzeczywisty (actual, practical), realny (actual, practical). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

real (absolute, actual, factual, incarnate, kingly, pence, penny, positive, practicable, practical, regal, royal, sterling, tangible, true, unfeigned, veritable, very, visual). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

verdadeiras. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

real (actual, effective, effectual, factual, live, natural, proper, sheer, sooth, substantial, tangible, true, truthful, very), faptic (actual, factual), adevårat (actual, practical, true), aievea (actual, actually, really, true), bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, bright, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, goods, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome), concret (actual, concrete, concretely, definite, practical), drept (as, attribution, claim, correct, Dexter, direct, directly, due, end on, endways, equitable, erect, even, evenly, exactly, fair, fairly, for, forthright, honest, just, justice, justly, kind, law, legitimate, patent, permission, plain, point blank, precisely, privilege, reasonable, right, right foot, right leg, righteous, Square, stand, stand up, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, unprejudiced, upright), adevãrat (actual, correct, forsooth, genuine, honestly, in truth, indeed, positive, positively, proper, quite right, really and truly, regular, sheer, sooth, Square, stark, true, truthful, veraciously, veritable, very), existent (available, being, existent, existing, extant, in existence), veritabil (authentic, genuine, regular, right, sheer, staunch, sterling, true, unadulterated, veritable), imobiliar, material (cloth, copy, corporeal, earthly, economic, fabric, financial, mass, material, matter, palpable, physical, sensual, stuff, substantial, tissue), natural (careless, certainly, easy, genuine, home-bred, innocent, kind, lifelike, matter of course, native, natural, naturally, physical, primitive, reasonably, simple, undisguised, unsophisticated, unvarnished), original (air hole, archetype, authentic, creative, eccentric, first hand, genuine, odd, original, originally, peculiar, queer, true, unique), patrimonial (patrimonial), efectiv (actual, actually, effective, really, strength, substantial, virtually). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

реальный (live, practicable, state-of-the-art, substantial, workable). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

realan (practical, unimaginative), veoma (badly, downright, greatly, highly, mighty, most, passing, plumb, right, terribly, vastly, very), stvarni (virtual), stvaran (actual, objective, substantial, unfeigned, unimaginative, veritable), pravi (genuine, ortho-, plumb, proper, pucka, pukka, sheer, simon-pure, stark, sterling, thorough, true), nepokretan (immobile, immovable, motionless, moveless, static, stationary), istinski (authentic, bona fide, pucka, pukka, simon-pure, sterling, true). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

real (actual, doable, king, king size, kingly, regal, royal), verdadero (actual, crowned, effective, factual, incorrupt, legitimate, perfect, positive, proper, regular, right, rightful, sheer, sterling, true, trueborn, unerring, upstanding, veritable). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

reell (actual, honest, practical), real (actual, factual, practical), verklig (actual, factual, fair, intrinsic, literal, perfect, practical, proper, pucka, regular, substantial, substantive, true, true born), faktisk (actual, de facto, factual, literal, virtual), egentlig (intrinsic, literal, proper, true, virtual), äkta (arrant, authentic, espouse, genuine, inartificial, kosher, legit, regular, right-down, true, true blue, veritable). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

reel, taşınmaz (immovable, unmovable), sahiden (actually, for real, honest, honestly, joking apart, really), sahici, saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), sabit (attached, changeless, constant, entrenched, established, fast, firm, fixed, flat, flat-footed, immobile, immovable, immutable, indelible, invariable, irremovable, permanent, put, rigid, set, settled, stable, staid, standing, staring, static, stationary, steadfast, steady, substantive, unwavering), hakiki (bona fide, dinkum, dyed in the wool, genuine, pucka, pukka, rightful, sterling, straight out, true, veritable), gerçekten (actually, by my troth, for real, forsooth, genuinely, honest, honest injun, honestly, in fact, in point of fact, in sooth, in troth, in very deed, indeed, it's no joke, of a verity, quite, really, regularly, sure enough, true, truly, yea, yes indeed), gerçek (actual, actualities, authentic, bona fide, dinkum, earnest, exact, fact, factual, for real, genuine, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, intrinsic, literal, low down, lowdown, proper, pucka, pukka, reality, right, rightful, sincere, sooth, sterling, straight out, substantial, tangible, the real, the true, troth, true, truth, truthful, unfeigned, veracious, veracity, veritable, Verity, very, virtual), etkin (active, ascendant, ascendent, effective, effectual, forceful, hard core, operative, prepotent), cidden (for real, in earnest, indeed, momentously, really, right, seriously, yes indeed), asıl (actual, authentic, Cardinal, central, elementary, extraction, foundation, fountain-head, gist, groundwork, in chief, intrinsic, main, master, origin, original, origination, pivotal, principal, principally, provenance, root stock, true, virtual), aktif (active, assets). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

real (r), tьяs (genuine, just like). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

справжній (active, actual, authentic, factual, genuine, honest, intrinsic, intrinsical, natural, operative, original, practical, pukka, sheer, simon-pure, sincere, true, true born, unadulterated, undoubted, unfeigned, veridic, veridical, veritable, very), реальний (existent, practical, realist, realistic, realizable, substantive, tangible), реал, вкрай (amain, badly, dead, densely, enormously, horribly, in the extreme, really, sorely, thumping), непідробний (inartificial), дуже (anxiously, awfully, bang, bitter, bloody, clinking, curiously, deep, enormously, exceedingly, frightfully, full, gey, greatly, hard, heaps, highly, hugely, immensely, in great measure, jolly, mightily, mighty, miles, much, nervously, notably, particularly, passing, precious, purely, really, shocking, some, strong, super, thumping, too, very, very much, violently, well, widely), дійсність (actuality, deed, reality), дійсний (absolute, active, actual, authentic, available, indicative, objective, operative, valid). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

sylweddol (substantial), gwirioneddol (actual, genuine, true). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Real

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

germanam, germane, germanus, ipsa, ipsae, ipsaeque, ipsam, ipsamque, ipsaque, ipsarum, ipsas, ipsasque, ipse, ipsi, ipsique, ipsis, ipsius, ipso, ipsorum, ipsos, ipsosque, ipsud, ipsum, ipsumque, legitima, legitimam, legitime, legitimis, legitimum, regalis, res, sincerus, vere, verus. (various references)

Avestan200-600

hâitîm, hañt, haitîm, haithîm. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

realis. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

verray. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Real

Derivations

Words beginning with "real": realer, reales, realest, realgar, realgars, realia, realign, realigned, realigning, realignment, realignments, realigns, realise, realised, realiser, realisers, realises, realising, realism, realisms, realist, realistic, realistically, realists, realities, reality, realizable, realization, realizations, realize, realized, realizer, realizers, realizes, realizing, reallocate, reallocated, reallocates, reallocating, reallocation, reallocations, reallot, reallots, reallotted, reallotting, really, realm, realms, realness, realnesses, realpolitik. (additional references)

Words ending with "real": arboreal, areal, boreal, cereal, choreal, corporeal, empyreal, ethereal, extracorporeal, funereal, incorporeal, irreal, loreal, marmoreal, semiarboreal, sidereal, superreal, surreal, unreal, ureal, venereal. (additional references)

Words containing "real": antirealism, antirealisms, antirealist, antirealists, arboreally, areally, cereals, corporealities, corporeality, corporeally, corporealness, corporealnesses, derealization, derealizations, etherealities, ethereality, etherealization, etherealizations, etherealize, etherealized, etherealizes, etherealizing, ethereally, etherealness, etherealnesses, extracorporeally, funereally, hyperrealism, hyperrealisms, hyperrealist, hyperrealistic, incorporeally, irrealities, irreality, marmoreally, neorealism, neorealisms, neorealist, neorealistic, neorealists, nonrealistic, preallot, preallots, preallotted, preallotting, superrealism, superrealisms, surrealism, surrealisms, surrealist, surrealistic. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Real" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Areall, breal, eal, ealu, eral, Eralp, erbal, erel, Erfal, erol, greal, irela, Jeal, kreal, oreal, Oreval, raal, Rabal, rael, Rafal, rafalo, ral, rala, rald, rall, ralp, raol, Rawal, raxaul, rcall, reaal, reab, reac, reaf, reah, Reala, reale, reall, realo, realp, reals, realt, realy, reau, reav, reaw, reax, reay, recal, recalc, recaulk, reclu, redl, refah, refail, Rehal, rehaul, reil, reiz, rejail, reka, Rekab, rel, rela, relah, relai, relat, relaw, rele, reln, relp, relq, remail, Reml, Reole, repl, Reuil, reul, reuo, reval, rewl, Rexa, reza, Rezal, rheel, rhel, rialy, riav, Riehl, Rila, ripal, risal, Rizal, roal, roalt, rola, rosal, rual, Rueval, rupal, Rupaul, rusal, ryal, Ryall, ryea, Ryhall, treal, Wraxall, wreel, yeal. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Real"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "real" (pronounced rē"l)
3r ē" lcreel, puerile, reel, riel, unreal.
2-ē" labele, anneal, appeal, conceal, congeal, corneal, deal, diel, eel, feel, genteel, heal, heel, ideal, spiel, squeal, steal, steel, surreal, teal, teel, keel, kneel, Leal, meal, ordeal, peal, Peel, repeal, reseal, reveal, seal, Seel, Shiel, unseal, veal, wheel, zeal.

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

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Anagrams: Real

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: earl, lear, rale.

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

-1 letter: ale, are, ear, era, lar, lea.

-2 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re.

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

+1 letter: abler, alder, alert, alter, areal, argle, ariel, arles, artel, baler, blare, blear, carle, clear, earls, early, farle, feral, flare, glare, haler, lacer, lader, lager, laker, lamer, laree, lares, large, laser, later, laver, laxer, layer, learn, lears, leary, paler, parle, pearl, rales, ratel, ravel, realm, reals, regal, relax, relay, renal, seral, taler, ureal, velar, waler.

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. Names: Frequency 		17. Names: Company Usage
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern 		21. Translations: Ancient
22. Abbreviations
23. Acronyms
24. Derivations 		25. Rhymes
26. Anagrams
27. Bibliography


  

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