Conclude vs Realize - What's the difference?
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To end; to come to an end.
To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
* Francis Bacon
To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
* Shakespeare
To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
* Tillotson
(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
* Addison
To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
* Sir M. Hale
(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
* Hooker
(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
* Bible, Romans xi. 32
* Bible, Gal. iii. 22
(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish.
* (rfdate) (w)
To become aware of a fact or situation.
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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.
* 1887 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) , II:
* (rfdate), (Benjamin Jowett).
* (rfdate),
(business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get
* (rfdate) (Macaulay)
(transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares, bonds, etc.
* (rfdate) (Washington Irving)
(transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
In transitive terms the difference between conclude and realize
is that conclude is to come to a conclusion, to a final decision while realize is 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.As verbs the difference between conclude and realize
is that conclude is to end; to come to an end while realize is to make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish.conclude
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Verb
(conclud)- The story concluded with a moral.
- I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
- to conclude a bargain
- if we conclude a peace
- From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
- No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
- But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
- The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
- A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
- If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
- The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
- For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
- The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
Derived terms
* concluder * concludable * conclusion * conclusive * conclusibleAntonyms
* (to end) begin, initiate, startrealize
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Alternative forms
* realise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(realiz)- We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth.
- 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.
- Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us.
- We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment.
- Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate.
- 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.