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realize
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)
- (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.
- (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?
- 2002, The Flaming Lips, Do You Realize??
- (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.
- 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
- (transitive, business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get
- (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.
- 1855, Washington Irving, Wolfert's Roost
- (transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
- (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 […]
- 2016, Martin Maiden, The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 297:
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)
- to realize.
Related terms
- realizasion
- realizater
Portuguese
Verb
realize
- First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of realizar
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of realizar
- Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of realizar
- Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of realizar
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execute
English
Etymology
From Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor, from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ks??kju?t/
Verb
execute (third-person singular simple present executes, present participle executing, simple past and past participle executed)
- (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
- (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
- (transitive) To perform.
- (transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
- (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run
- Synonyms: start, launch, run, open
- (intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.
Related terms
Translations
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.se?ku?.te/, [?ks???ku?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.se?ku.te/, [??z??ku?t??]
Participle
exec?te
- vocative masculine singular of exec?tus
Portuguese
Verb
execute
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of executar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of executar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of executar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of executar
Spanish
Verb
execute
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of executar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of executar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of executar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of executar.
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