different between engender vs realize

English

Alternative forms

• engendre [14th–16th c.], ingender [15th–17th c.]

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?d??n.d?/, /?n?d??n.d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?d??n.d?/, /?n?d??n.d?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle French engendrer, from Latin ingener?re, from in- + gener?re (“to generate”).

Verb

engender (third-person singular simple present engenders, present participle engendering, simple past and past participle engendered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). [14th–19th c.]
2. (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). [from 14th c.]
   • 1891, Henry James, "James Russell Lowell", Essays in London and Elsewhere, p.60:

     Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him […].

3. (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. [from 14th c.]
   • 1928, "New Plays in Manhattan", Time, 8 Oct.:

     Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.

   • 2009, Jonathan Glancey, "The art of industry", The Guardian, 21 Dec.:

     Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.

4. (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex. [15th–19th c.]

Synonyms

• (to bring into existence): beget, conjure, create, produce, make, craft, manufacture, invent, assemble, generate
• (to copulate): do it, get it on, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Translations

Etymology 2

From en- +? gender.

Verb

engender (third-person singular simple present engenders, present participle engendering, simple past and past participle engendered)

1. (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. [from 20th c.]

Anagrams

• engendre, regenned

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