Verb

(en verb)

(label) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

* 1611 , (w) 1:9:

And Godthe dry land appear .

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

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(label) To come before the public.

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(label) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.

* 1611 , 5:10:

We must all appear before the judgment seat.

* (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay):

One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear .

(label) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.

* 1611 , 3:2:

It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

* (rfdate) (John Milton):

Of their vain contest appeared no end.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]?  Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, magazine=(American Scientist)

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To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

* 1611 , (w) 6:16:

They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}

Verb

(realiz)

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish.

* (rfdate) (w)

We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth.

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:

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.

* (rfdate), (Benjamin Jowett).

Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us.

* (rfdate),

We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment.

(business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get

* (rfdate) (Macaulay)

Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate.

(transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares, bonds, etc.

* (rfdate) (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.

(transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.