Verb

(realiz)

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

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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.

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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.

Verb

(lb) To be aware of the meaning of.

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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I understand not what you mean by this.

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To believe, based on information.

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To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.

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:In this sense, the word is usually used in the past participle:

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*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.

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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

To stand under; to support.

:(Shakespeare)