REALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does realise mean? 

• REALISE (verb)
  The verb REALISE has 6 senses:

1. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages

2. convert into cash; of goods and property

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

4. make real or concrete; give reality or substance to

5. be fully aware or cognizant of

6. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally

  Familiarity information: REALISE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they realise    ... he / she / it realises   
Past simple: realised   
Past participle: realised   
-ing form: realising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

He clears $5,000 each month

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Convert into cash; of goods and property

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

realise; realize

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 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

realise; realize

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 4

Meaning:

Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

actualise; actualize; realise; realize; substantiate

Context example:

our ideas must be substantiated into actions

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 5

Meaning:

Be fully aware or cognizant of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

agnise; agnize; realise; realize; recognise; recognize

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 6

Meaning:

Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

realise; realize; see; understand

Context example:

I don't understand the idea

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)

 Context examples 

Which I can and will realise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

White Fang could scarcely realise that he was free.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My brain seemed to become cool again, and I realised where I was. I heard the dogs bark behind our house, but not where He was!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My heart beat quick; this was the hour and moment of trial, which would decide my hopes or realise my fears.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“I suppose you realise, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” said he, “that if your government bears you out in this treatment it becomes an act of war.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But here, by carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realised.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Only now are scientists realising that transposons are not junk at all but actually play an important role in the evolutionary process, and in altering gene expression and the physical characteristics of plants.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)

The coincidence was too great, and they realised that p1 must lie within the supernova remnant itself.

(Dead Star Circled by Light, ESO)

Detectors in Europe picked up the waves and experts realised this would be impossible if the core was liquid, as it was thought to be in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

(Earth's Core Confirmed to Be Solid After 80 Years of Study, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)