Realize

Verb

 * 1)  To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish.
 * The objectives of the project were never fully realized.
 * 1) * Joseph Glanvill
 * We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth.
 * 1)  To become aware of a fact or situation.
 * He realized that he had left his umbrella on the train.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, II:
 * That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
 * , Benjamin Jowett.
 * Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us.
 * , Sir William Hamilton
 * We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment.
 * 1)  To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get
 * to realize large profits from a speculation.
 * 1) * Macaulay
 * Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate.
 * 1)  To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares, bonds, etc.
 * Profits from the investment can be realized at any time by selling the shares.
 * By realizing the company's assets, the liquidator was able to return most of the shareholders' investments.
 * 1) * Washington Irving
 * 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.
 * 1)  To convert into real property; to make real estate of.

Synonyms

 * accomplish, actualize

Related terms

 * real
 * realism
 * realistic
 * reality

Derived terms

 * realizable
 * realization

Adverbs for Realize
sickeningly; nervously; instinctively; emphatically; dimly; speedily; vividly; vaguely; faintly; gloriously; partially; feebly; happily; piteously; stabbingly; shockingly.

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

Alternative forms

 * realise

Etymology
c 1610, from réaliser:, from  real:, from  reel:, from  realis:, from res:; as if.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Catalan: adonar-se
 * Chinese: 醒腔 (xǐngqiāng)
 * Czech: uvědomit si
 * Dutch: beseffen, zich realiseren, inzien
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French: se rendre compte (that: que)
 * German: erkennen (that: dass)
 * Greek: συνειδητοποιώ (siniditopio), αντιλαμβάνομαι (antilamvanome)


 * Hungarian:, ráébred,  ,  ráeszmél,  ,  eszébe jut,
 * Italian: rendersi conto (that: che),
 * Japanese: 悟る (さとる, satoru)
 * Polish: spostrzec, uświadamiać, zdać sobie sprawę
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: представлять себе (predstavlját’ sebé)
 * Spanish: darse cuenta (that: de que), comprender
 * Swedish: inse (that: att)


 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 實現, 实现 (shíxiàn)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: realigi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: realisieren (mainly used together with project)
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 実現する (じつげんする, jitsugén surú)
 * Korean: 실현하다 (silhyeonhada)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: реализовать (realizovát’)
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian: ,


 * Polish:
 * Russian: реализовать (realizovát’)


 * German: realisieren (only a gain in stock exchange)
 * Italian:
 * Polish:


 * Russian: реализовать (realizovát’)
 * Slovene: