realise vs realize
Definitions
verb
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- be fully aware or cognizant of
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
- convert into cash; of goods and property
Examples
Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
In the end, though, Smith was beginning to realise the futility of trying to liberate a proletariat that seemed quite content to remain unliberated.
And I'm not too stupid to realise this is all transference.
Definitions
verb
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- be fully aware or cognizant of
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
- convert into cash; of goods and property
Examples
Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality.
This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
After a little while the bellboy realized that there was a special on rooms that night and the price for the men's room should have been $25.
