realise

[ UK /ɹˈi‍əla‍ɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈɹiəˌɫaɪz/ ]
VERB
  1. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
    this merger brought in lots of money
    How much do you make a month in your new job?
    He clears $5,000 each month
    She earns a lot in her new job
  2. be fully aware or cognizant of
  3. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
    I don't understand the idea
    Now I see!
    I just can't see your point
    Does she realize how important this decision is?
  4. expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
  5. convert into cash; of goods and property
  6. make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
    our ideas must be substantiated into actions
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How To Use realise In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • When the matador realises the bull is weak and unable to charge much longer he will reach for his killing sword and seek to manoeuvre it directly in front of him with its head down, so that he can administer the death stroke.
  • I was watching the match in a pub without sound, and I had forgotten about it, so it was not until I got home that I realised that Langer had taken a hat trick, and that was why the West Indian fieldsmen all looked so pleased.
  • I just hadn't realised that so many straight men could be so selfish and unloving towards their offspring.
  • The second is to realise when the goal is unattainable and turn the envy towards an achievable outcome. Times, Sunday Times
  • I realised you don't need to make the most amazing sauce with ten layers of flavour: food can be simple and beautiful. Times, Sunday Times
  • All this material reveals Daley as a writer of more variegated talents than was previously realised.
  • It comes down in favour of a blueprint that for sound political and environmental reasons will prove impossible to realise. Times, Sunday Times
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