different between terminate vs realize

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin termin?tus, past participle of termin? (“I set bounds to, bound, limit, end, close, terminate”), from terminus (“a bound, limit, end”); see term, terminus. Doublet of termine.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?m?ne?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??m?ne?t/
• Hyphenation: ter?mi?nate

Verb

terminate (third-person singular simple present terminates, present participle terminating, simple past and past participle terminated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
   • 1857, John Scandrett Harford, The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti

     During this interval of calm and prosperity, he terminated two figures of slaves, destined for the tomb, in an incomparable style of art.

2. (transitive or intransitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
3. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.

4. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
5. Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or of a railway line, to reach its terminus.

Synonyms

• (to end incompletely): discontinue, stop, break off
• (to kill): See also Thesaurus:kill
• (to end the employment contract): axe, fire, sack; see also Thesaurus:lay off

Antonyms

• (to end incompletely): continue

Related terms

Translations

See also

• abort

Further reading

• terminate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• terminate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “terminate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Adjective

terminate (comparative more terminate, superlative most terminate)

1. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
2. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.

3. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “terminate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Marinette, antimeter, intermate, tetramine, tretamine

Italian

Verb

terminate

1. second-person plural present indicative of terminare
2. second-person plural present subjunctive of terminare
3. second-person plural imperative of terminare

Verb

terminate f pl

1. feminine plural of terminato

Anagrams

• attenermi
• meritante

Latin

Verb

termin?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of termin?

References

• terminate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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