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REALISE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally

Example:

I don't understand the idea

Synonyms:

realise; realize; see; understand

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Verb group:

envision; fancy; figure; image; picture; project; see; visualise; visualize (imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind)

see (see and understand, have a good eye)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "realise"):

perceive (become conscious of)

appreciate; take account (be fully aware of; realize fully)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

realisation (coming to understand something clearly and distinctly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be fully aware or cognizant of

Synonyms:

agnise; agnize; realise; realize; recognise; recognize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "realise" is one way to...):

cognise; cognize; know (be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "realise"):

know (know the nature or character of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

realisation (coming to understand something clearly and distinctly)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to

Example:

our ideas must be substantiated into actions

Synonyms:

actualise; actualize; realise; realize; substantiate

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "realise" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "realise"):

incarnate (make concrete and real)

express (manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

realisation (something that is made real or concrete)

realisation (making real or giving the appearance of reality)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass

Synonyms:

realise; realize

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "realise" is one way to...):

harmonise; harmonize (write a harmony for)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Convert into cash; of goods and property

Synonyms:

realise; realize

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "realise" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

realisation (a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages

Example:

He clears $5,000 each month

Synonyms:

bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "realise" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Verb group:

make (act in a certain way so as to acquire)

clear; net; sack; sack up (make as a net profit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "realise"):

eke out; squeeze out (make by laborious and precarious means)

profit; turn a profit (make a profit; gain money or materially)

rake off (take money from an illegal transaction)

bring home; take home (earn as a salary or wage)

rake in; shovel in (earn large sums of money)

gross (earn before taxes, expenses, etc.)

bear; pay; yield (bring in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Now we’ve realised that it’s the diversity of this invisible world of organic molecules that’s important.

(Climate change could double greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater ecosystems, University of Cambridge)

As conventional semiconductor technologies approach their physical limitations, researchers need to explore new technologies to realise the most ambitious visions of a future networked global society.

(Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications, University of Cambridge)

The researchers looked at how aluminium and chromium were zoned in the crystals and realised that this pattern was telling them something exciting and new about magma storage time.

(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)

Smith realised this tablet told the same story as Noah and the Ark in the Biblical book of Genesis.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

Sick of ambitious and mercenary connexions, prizing more and more the sterling good of principle and temper, and chiefly anxious to bind by the strongest securities all that remained to him of domestic felicity, he had pondered with genuine satisfaction on the more than possibility of the two young friends finding their natural consolation in each other for all that had occurred of disappointment to either; and the joyful consent which met Edmund's application, the high sense of having realised a great acquisition in the promise of Fanny for a daughter, formed just such a contrast with his early opinion on the subject when the poor little girl's coming had been first agitated, as time is for ever producing between the plans and decisions of mortals, for their own instruction, and their neighbours' entertainment.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Whatever money he might come into when his father died, whatever his share of the family property, it is, I dare say, all afloat, all employed in his stock, and so forth; and though, with diligence and good luck, he may be rich in time, it is next to impossible that he should have realised any thing yet.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We soon realised that the remarkable collecting power of the VLT and the extreme stability of ESPRESSO made it a prime machine to study exoplanet atmospheres, says Pedro Figueira, ESPRESSO instrument scientist at ESO in Chile.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realised.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I think that it took me an effort and a little time to realise where I was, and that it was Jonathan who was bending over me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Little did I think how soon the words of Holmes would be realised, or how strange and sinister would be that new development which opened up an entirely fresh line of investigation.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)