Realized vs Known - What's the difference?
realized | known |
(realize)
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.
identified as a specific type; renowned, famous.
* He was a known pickpocket.
ed, accepted, familiar.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
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In algebra, a variable or constant whose value is already determined.
Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.
* 2012 , Thomas Dougherty, Antibiotic Discovery and Development (volume 1, page 39)
As verbs the difference between realized and known
is that realized is past tense of realize while known is past participle of lang=en.As an adjective known is
identified as a specific type; renowned, famous.As a noun known is
in algebra, a variable or constant whose value is already determined.realized
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Verb
(head)realize
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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.
Synonyms
* (to convert to actuality) accomplish, actualizeDerived terms
* realizable * realizationReferences
* * ----known
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Adjective
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Antonyms
* unknownVerb
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* (know)Noun
(en noun)- The biological dereplication tool may identify major knowns in a mixture, but it may miss novel minor components.