different between conclude vs realize

English

Etymology

From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin concl?dere (“to shut up, close, end”), present active infinitive of concl?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n.?klu?d/

Verb

conclude (third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded)

1. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.

   The story concluded with a moral.
2. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.

3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

   to conclude a bargain
4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

   From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies

     No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.

5. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
   • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses

     But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.

6. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.

   The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

   A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.

   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.

7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.

8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
9. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

Antonyms

• (to end): begin, initiate, start, commence

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

conclude

1. third-person singular present indicative of concludere

Latin

Verb

concl?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of concl?d?

English

Alternative forms

• realise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

Attested since 1610, from French réaliser, from Middle French real (“actual”), from Old French reel, from Latin re?lis, from r?s (“thing, event, deed, fact”); as if real +? -ize.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??i.?.la?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.la?z/
• Hyphenation: re?al?ize

Verb

realize (third-person singular simple present realizes, present participle realizing, simple past and past participle realized)

2. (formal, transitive) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into reality; to bring into real existence

   Synonyms: accomplish, actualize, materialize

   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

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

3. (transitive) To become aware of (a fact or situation, especially of something that has been true for a long time).
   • 2002, The Flaming Lips, Do You Realize??

     Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?

4. (transitive) To cause to seem real; to sense vividly or strongly; to make one's own in thought or experience.
   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds

     Over the mind of the tourist, visiting the Old World for the first time,—countries where have transpired thrilling events recorded in history, what an immensity of thought and feeling sweeps! It was thus with Natalie; she could not realize that she was treading in the footsteps of royalty, who living in long past days, had held sway over this land, had looked upon this land of "merrie England" as their home.

   • 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.

   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides Translated into English

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

   • 1996, Alan Brown, Audrey Hepburn's Neck

     Drawings appear fully realized in his mind's eye at a furious rate, before he even picks up his pencil.

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

6. (transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, such as shares, bonds, etc.
   • 1855, Washington Irving, Wolfert's Roost

     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.

7. (transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
8. (transitive, linguistics) To turn an abstract linguistic object into actual language, especially said of a phoneme's conversion into speech sound.
   • 2016, Martin Maiden, The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 297:

     Many (probably most) speakers realize it as [ø] or [œ] in other contexts as well. In Midi French, schwa is realized more frequently than in northern varieties, including in word-final position, where it generally (but not always) corresponds to […]

Derived terms

• realizable
• realization
• realizer

Related terms

• real
• realism
• realistic
• reality

Translations

References

• realize in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• realize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ealize/

Etymology

From French réaliser.

Verb

realize (medial form realiz)

1. to realize.

Related terms

• realizasion
• realizater

Portuguese

Verb

realize

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of realizar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of realizar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of realizar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of realizar