realize
English
/ˈɹi.ə.laɪz/, /ˈɹɪə.laɪz/
verb
Definitions
- (formal) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into reality; to bring into real existence
- (transitive) To become aware of (a fact or situation, especially of something that has been true for a long time).
- (transitive) To cause to seem real; to sense vividly or strongly; to make one's own in thought or experience.
- (transitive) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get
- (transitive) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, such as shares, bonds, etc.
- (transitive) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
- (transitive) To turn an abstract linguistic object into actual language, especially said of a phoneme's conversion into speech sound.
Etymology
Borrowed from French réaliser (make real, realize) derived from Middle French real (actual) derived from Old French reel derived from Latin reālis (actual, real) suffix from English real.
Origin
English
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Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antireal English
- cyberreal English
- derealization English
- derealize English
- disrealize English
- hyperreal English
- nonreal English
- nonrealizability English
- nonrealization English
- photoreal English
- prerealization English
- real English
- real reality English
- realism English
- realist English
- reality English
- realizability English
- realizable English
- realization English
- realizational English
- realizer English
- realizest English
- realizeth English
- really English
- realness English
- realsome English
- realspace English
- realtime English
- realtone English
- self-realization English
- superreal English
- unreal English
- unrealizability English
- unrealizable English
- unrealize English
- realis Latin
- realitas Latin
- reālis Latin
- reālitās Latin
- rēs Latin
- Realien German
- real German
- realisieren German
- reale Italian
- realiseren Dutch, Flemish
- réalisable French
- réalisateur French
- réalisation French
- réaliser French
- réel French
- real Spanish, Castilian
- realisere Norwegian Bokmål
- real Portuguese
- realisere Norwegian Nynorsk
- real Middle English
- reall Middle English
- realle Middle English
- realisere Danish
- reálný Czech
- real Old French
- reel Old French
- reala Esperanto
- real Catalan, Valencian
- reāls Latvian
- reala Ido
- réel Norman
- реален Bulgarian
- Montreal Middle French
- real Middle French
- reel Middle French
- 리얼 Korean
- realize Mauritian Creole
- real Crimean Tatar
- realizm Crimean Tatar
- real
- unreal
- really
- nonreal
- realist
- reality
- realism
- realtime
- antireal
- realness
- realsome
- realizer
- realtone
- hyperreal
- realizest
- photoreal
- superreal
- unrealize
- realizeth
- realspace
- derealize
- cyberreal
- realizable
- disrealize
- realization
- unrealizable
- real reality
- realizational
- realizability
- derealization
- prerealization
- nonrealization
- unrealizability
- self-realization
- nonrealizability