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REAL WORLD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The practical world as opposed to the academic world
Example:
a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world
Synonyms:
real life; real world
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("real world" is a kind of...):
reality; world (all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you)
Context examples:
The findings reveal major inconsistencies between what vehicles emit during testing and what they emit in the real world —a problem that's far more severe, said the researchers, than the incident in 2015, when federal regulators discovered Volkswagen had been fitting millions of new diesel cars with defeat devices.
(Diesel Pollutes More Than Lab Tests Detect, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
My world had for some years been in Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"We set out to test this in the real world. These systems don't know any other language but male or female, so for many gender identities it is not possible for them to be correct."
(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)
The study of 2.8 million people from anonymized patient records presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Glasgow gives an indication of the extent to which obesity can take a toll on people’s health in the real world – as opposed to clinical trials.
(Middle Age Severely Obese People More Likely to Die Early, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Apparently it was to be a rattling sea story, a tale of twentieth-century adventure and romance, handling real characters, in a real world, under real conditions.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
