Verb

(differentiat)

To show, or be the distinction between two things.

* Earle

The word "then" was differentiated into the two forms "then" and "than".

* {{quote-book, year=1933

, passage=The mass of the rich and poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. , author=George Orwell, title=Down and Out in Paris and London, chapter=Ch. XXII, page=120, publisher=Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition}}

To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.

* {{quote-book, title=, year=1964

, passage=he refused to instruct that actual intent to harm or recklessness had to be found before punitive damages could be awarded, or that a verdict for respondent should differentiate between compensatory and punitive damages.}}

(intransitive) To modify, or be modified.

(mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.

(mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.

(biology) To produce distinct organs or to achieve specific functions by a process of development called differentiation.

* {{quote-book, title=, year=1930, author=Robert Evans Snodgrass

, passage=In Chapter IV we learned that every animal consists of a body, or soma, formed of cells that are differentiated from the germ cells usually at an early stage of development.}}

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.