Realise

Definitions: Realise

Realise

Verb

1. Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?" "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month".

2. Convert into cash; of goods and property.

3. Make real or concrete; give reality to.

4. Be fully aware or cognizant of.

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

Date "realise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

"Realise" is a common misspelling or typo for: realism, realist, realize, realized.

Synonyms: Realise

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

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Don't you realise how absurd your position is? (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) He doesn't realise he's dealing with sophisticated people here. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) We've also come to realise that we need to monitor the people who are monitoring them (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi) Oh Larry, I didn't realise you had a drinking problem. (The Player; writing credit: Michael Tolkin) Don't you realise that Americans dislike having their children stolen? (The Man Who Knew Too Much; writing credit: Charles Bennett; D.B. Wyndham-Lewis)
Lyrics	So you realise what hurt you made ("I Heard a Rumour"; performing artist: Bananarama) I'd better realise ("EYES WITHOUT A FACE"; performing artist: Billy Idol) But now I truly realise, some people don't wanna compromise ("Walking Away"; performing artist: Craig David) To realise my crime ("Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"; performing artist: Culture Club) Make me realise all that I am ("Disappear"; performing artist: INXS)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Branwell Bronte	I shall never be able to realise the too sanguine hopes of my friends, for at twenty-eight I am a thoroughly old man - mentally and bodily. Far moreso, indeed, than I am willing to express.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	They still dream of experimental realisation of their social Utopias, of founding isolated "phalansteres," of establishing "Home Colonies," of setting up a "Little Icaria" -- duodecimo editions of the New Jerusalem -- and to realise all these castles in the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses of the bourgeois. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Last Chance To See	Douglas Adams	At about one-thirty they eventually realise their mistake and shut up, just as the major dogfights of the evening are getting under way. These usually start with a few minor bouts between the more enthusiastic youngsters, and then the full chorus of heavyweights weighs in with a fine impression of what it might be like to fall into the pit of hell with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	To attempt to realise it, the utmost violence must be imagined in the presence of the most extreme mildness.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Beside the savage desire within him to realise the enormities which he brooded on nothing was sacred.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Realise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 70.34% of the time. "Realise" is used about 3,850 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	70.34%	2,708	3,394
Lexical Verb (base form)	29.5%	1,136	6,738
Noun (singular)	0.16%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	3,850	N/A

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Language		Translations for "realise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		verstaan (realize, understand), besef (awareness, be aware of, be conscious of, consciousness, notion, realization, realize, sense, understand). (various references)

Arabic		ادرك (to realise). (various references)

Chinese		�"会 (realised, realize, realized, Realizing). (various references)

Danish		forstå (realize, understand). (various references)

Dutch		bevatten (carry, comprise, contain, include, realize, understand), beseffen (be aware of, be conscious of, realize, understand), begrijpen (realize, understand). (various references)

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

French		comprendre (realize). (various references)

German		realisieren (carry out, conclude, implement, produce, realize, to realise, to realize), feststellen (ascertain, assess, detect, determine, diagnose, discover, establish, find, find out, lock, lock fast, notice, observe, plot, realize, tell, to ascertain, to determine, to realise). (various references)

Greek		καταλαβαίνω (come to terms with, make of, savvy, see, understand), αντιλαμβάνομαι (apprehend, awake to, aware, catch, perceive, realize, see through, soak up, tumble to). (various references)

Hungarian		megvalósít (accomplish, achieve, actualize, attain, effect, effectuate, execute, implement, materialize, put into effect, put into practice, realize, to attain, to bring into effect, to bring to effect, to bring to fruition, to effect, to effectuate, to flesh out, to make good, to materialize, to realise, to realize, to work out), észrevesz (behold, descry, espy, notice, perceive, remark, take a notion, take notice, to descry, to discern, to espy, to notice, to perceive, to realise, to remark, to spot, to spy). (various references)

Indonesian		kecelik (disappointed, feel cheated, realise the truth). (various references)

Italian		realizzare (accomplish, achieve, actualize, carry out, clear, come off, come true, fulfil, fulfil oneself, fulfill, fulfill oneself, implement, realize, to convert into cash, to convert into money, to encash, to realise, to realize, to sale, to sell, to turn into cash, to turn into money), capire (apprehend, bottom, catch, comprehend, get, make out, penetrate, perceive, pin down, push, read, realize, see, see through, take in, to understand, twig, understand), accorgersi (become aware, descry, notice, perceive, realize, see). (various references)

Korean		실현하십시�" (realize). (various references)

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

Pig Latin		ealiseray.(various references)

Portuguese		realize (accomplish). (various references)

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

Swedish		komma underfund med (find out, get the hang of, het to know), förstås (catch, comprehend, figure out, follow, gather, grasp, have, Ken, know, latch on to, see, take, understand). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "realise": realised, realiser, realisers, realises. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-r-s"
	-1 letter: aeries, ariels, easier, larees, leaser, reales, relies, resail, resale, reseal, resile, sailer, sealer, serail, serial.
	-2 letters: aerie, aisle, ariel, arils, arise, arles, earls, easel, erase, lairs, laree, lares, laris, laser, lears, lease, leers, liars, liers, liras, rails, raise, rales, reals, reels, rials, riels, riles, saree, serai, seral, siree, slier.
	-3 letters: ails, airs, alee, ales, ares, aril, arse, earl, ears, ease, eels, else, eras, ilea, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, lear, leas, leer, lees, leis, liar, lier, lies, lira, lire, rail, rale, rase, real, reel, rees, reis, rial, rias, riel, rile, rise, sail, sale, sari, seal, sear, seel, seer, sera, sere, sial, sire.
	-4 letters: ail, air, ais, ale, als, are, ars, ear, eel, els, era, ere, ers, ire, lar, las, lea, lee, lei, lie, lis, ras, ree, rei, res, ria, sae, sal, sea, see, sei, sel, ser, sir, sri.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, al, ar, as, el, er, es, is, la, li, re, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-r-s"
	+1 letter: alieners, ateliers, earliest, espalier, filarees, gaselier, leariest, measlier, realised, realiser, realises, realizes, realties, resailed, sidereal, sleazier, yearlies.
	+2 letters: aerolites, algerines, allergies, balefires, baseliner, beastlier, bewailers, bleariest, cartelise, celeriacs, desirable, detailers, earliness, elaterids, elaterins, entailers, equaliser, espaliers, filagrees, flaneries, galleries, gaseliers, laetriles, larcenies, laterites, laterizes, levirates, liberates, lifesaver, linearise, literates, marbleise, materiels, miserable, misleader, misleared, misrelate, nearliest, pearliest, pearlites, pedaliers, pedlaries, prelacies, realisers, realities, realizers, reapplies, relatives, releasing, reliables, reliances, replicase, resealing, retailers, reviewals, revisable, sacrilege, sealeries, serialise, serialize, seriately, shapelier, slaveries, specialer, statelier, treenails, velarizes, versatile, weariless.
	+3 letters: adulteries, aerologies, aerosolize, afterlives, alderflies, aliterates, allegories, allegorise, altimeters, arecolines, areologies, arterioles, aversively, baseliners, bleariness, breadlines, cajoleries, caramelise, cartelised, cartelises, cartelizes, centralise, chevaliers, daredevils, dealership, decaliters, declaimers, dekaliters, desirables, diableries, disrelated, earthliest, easterlies, elaterites, elutriates, equalisers, equalizers, erysipelas, escadrille, espadrille, espaliered, exclaimers, explainers, federalism, federalist, fieldfares, fireplaces, flackeries, flatteries, foreladies, generalise, generalist, glazieries, greenmails, headliners, heraldries, idealizers, interlaces, intervales, lamaseries, lavalieres, leadership, legalizers, lethargies, liberalise, lifesavers, limewaters, linearised, linearises, linearizes, linecaster, literacies, luciferase, madrilenes, marbleised, marbleises, marbleizes, meliorates, minelayers, mineralise, misaltered, miserables, misleaders, mislearned, misrelated, misrelates, neorealism, neorealist, neutralise, percalines, perennials, periosteal, perishable, persiflage, pilferages, plaistered, psalteries, railleries, reassailed, regalities, reinflates, relishable, replicases, replicates, reprievals, respirable, retaliates, retrievals, revitalise, sacrileges, saddleries, saucerlike, secularise, secularize, semestrial, semiyearly, serialised, serialises, serialized, serializes, silverware, sphalerite, stealthier, streamline, tailenders, treillages, tutelaries, varletries, verbalizes, vernalizes, waterlines, zealotries.
	+4 letters: adrenalines, aeroelastic, aerosolized, aerosolizes, airlessness, aliteracies, allegorised, allegorises, allegorizes, alliterates, allometries, allosteries, altarpieces, altimetries, ameliorates, artilleries, assertively, bilgewaters, blaeberries, cantilevers, caramelised, caramelises, caramelizes, caressively, centralised, centralises, centralizes, ceremonials, chandeliers, chandleries, cherishable, credentials, dealerships, deliberates, delineators, demoralizes, depolarizes, derailleurs, derailments, desacralize, describable, discernable, displeasure, earlinesses, earthliness, elastomeric, electuaries, escadrilles, espadrilles, espaliering, establisher, eternalizes, everlasting, exercisable, exhilarates, externalise, externalism, extralities, fairleaders, fallaleries, federalisms, federalists, federalizes, fireballers, frailnesses, galleryites, generalised, generalises, generalists, generalizes, generalship, glengarries, gracileness, hypersaline, illiterates, increasable, inseparable, insuperable, intercensal, interlayers, interleaves, internalise, interpleads, intersexual, irrealities, irrecusable, larkinesses, lateralizes, lavallieres, leaderships, legionaries, legislature, leisurewear, liberalised, liberalises, liberalizes, liberalness, lighterages, linearities, linebackers, linecasters, literalizes, literalness, literatures, littermates, luciferases, malingerers, materialise, memorialise, millenaries, mineralised, mineralises, mineralizes, necessarily, neoliberals, neorealisms, neorealists, neurilemmas, neutralised, neutralises, neutralizes, obliterates, palletizers, peripherals, perishables, peristalses, permillages, persiflages, personalise, personalize, persuasible, pervasively, planimeters, planisphere, predicables, quarterlies, recanalizes, receivables, recessional, redisplayed, reestablish, regimentals, registrable, regularizes, reinstalled, relativizes, relegations, relevancies, reliquaries, repolarizes, requalifies, rereleasing, residential, resocialize, restabilize, restimulate, reticulates, revalidates, revalorizes, revelations, reversional, revitalised, revitalises, revitalizes, ringleaders, salinometer, secretarial, secularised, secularises, secularized, secularizer, secularizes, seigneurial, semitrailer, sempiternal, serviceable, serviceably, severalties, silverwares, sphalerites, streamlined, streamliner, streamlines, subliterate, superlative, terrestrial, tetralogies, thermalizes, timepleaser, trailerites, triathletes, undesirable, unrealities, varicoceles, verbalizers, versatilely, villageries, vulneraries, wearilessly, wearisomely, wheelchairs.
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