'Realize' definitions:
Definition of 'realize'
From: WordNet
verb
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
- absorb,
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- act,
- actualize,
- adumbrate,
- appreciate,
- apprehend,
- assimilate,
- attain,
- author,
- be acquainted with,
- be apprised of,
- be aware of,
- be cognizant of,
- be conscious of,
- be conversant with,
- be informed,
- be productive,
- be sold,
- be with one,
- bear,
- beget,
- body forth,
- breed,
- bring,
- bring about,
- bring forth,
- bring in,
- bring into being,
- bring off,
- bring to effect,
- bring to fruition,
- bring to pass,
- call to mind,
- call up,
- capitalize on,
- cash in on,
- catch,
- catch on,
- catch on to,
- cause,
- clean up,
- clear,
- cognize,
- coin money,
- commercialize,
- commit,
- compass,
- comprehend,
- conceive,
- conceptualize,
- conjure up,
- constitute,
- consummate,
- create,
- deal with,
- demonstrate,
- dig,
- digest,
- discern,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- distinguish,
- do,
- do the job,
- do the trick,
- do to,
- earn,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- embody,
- enact,
- engender,
- engineer,
- envisage,
- envision,
- establish,
- execute,
- exemplify,
- fancy,
- father,
- fathom,
- feature,
- fetch,
- figure,
- follow,
- foreshadow,
- form,
- found,
- fulfill,
- gain,
- gain by,
- generate,
- gestate,
- get,
- get hold of,
- get the drift,
- get the idea,
- get the picture,
- give birth to,
- give occasion to,
- give origin to,
- give rise to,
- go and do,
- grasp,
- gross,
- have,
- have information about,
- have it taped,
- have knowledge of,
- identify,
- illustrate,
- image,
- imagine,
- impersonate,
- inaugurate,
- incarnate,
- incept,
- industrialize,
- inflict,
- install,
- institute,
- just see,
- ken,
- knock off,
- know,
- know again,
- learn,
- make,
- make a killing,
- make money,
- make money by,
- make out,
- manage,
- mass-produce,
- master,
- materialize,
- mirror,
- nail,
- net,
- objectify,
- occasion,
- organize,
- originate,
- overproduce,
- pay,
- peg,
- perceive,
- perform,
- perpetrate,
- personate,
- personify,
- picture,
- place,
- polish off,
- possess,
- prefigure,
- prehend,
- pretypify,
- produce,
- profit,
- project,
- pull off,
- put away,
- reach,
- read,
- realize on,
- recall knowledge of,
- recognize,
- reflect,
- reidentify,
- render,
- represent,
- return,
- savvy,
- score,
- see,
- seize,
- seize the meaning,
- sell,
- sell for,
- sense,
- set afloat,
- set on foot,
- set up,
- shadow,
- shadow forth,
- sire,
- spot,
- succeed,
- summon up,
- take,
- take and do,
- take care of,
- take in,
- tell,
- turn a penny,
- turn the trick,
- turn to account,
- turn to profit,
- twig,
- understand,
- up and do,
- vision,
- visualize,
- volume-produce,
- win,
- work,
- work out,
- wot,
- wot of,
- wreak