'Realize' definitions:

Definition of 'realize'

From: WordNet
verb
Be fully aware or cognizant of [syn: recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise]
verb
Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" [syn: understand, realize, realise, see]
verb
Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions" [syn: realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate]
verb
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" [syn: gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in]
verb
Convert into cash; of goods and property [syn: realize, realise]
verb
Expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass [syn: realize, realise]

Definition of 'Realize'

From: GCIDE
  • Realize \Re"al*ize\ (r[=e]"al*[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Realized (-[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Realizing (-[imac]`z[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. r['e]aliser.]
  • 1. To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project. [1913 Webster]
  • We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain against the globe of earth. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience. [1913 Webster]
  • Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us. --Jowett. [1913 Webster]
  • We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation. [1913 Webster]
  • Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Realize'

From: GCIDE
  • Realize \Re"al*ize\, v. i. To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize, a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'realize'

From: Moby Thesaurus