Synonyms:
understand, realize, realise, see
Meaning: perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea"
Synonyms:
recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise
Meaning: be fully aware or cognizant of
Synonyms:
realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
Meaning: make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions"
Synonyms:
realize, realise
Meaning: expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
Synonyms:
realize, realise
Meaning: convert into cash; of goods and property
Synonyms:
gain, take_in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull_in, bring_in
Meaning: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month"
Usage examples
An old fright ought to realise she is a fright!"
But how to make him realise this, is the puzzle.
I began to realise what its presence meant, and the tide of my courage flowed.
It is really wonderful to realise the amount of work which has been got through of late.
"Look here, Godfrey," I said, "do you realise that what we're about to do is pretty serious?
But as hour after hour passed without improvement, it was impossible not to realise that the poor beast was dangerously ill.
The shorter duration of the average voyage made by the sail-and-oil power vessels had the effect of enabling shippers to realise upon the goods carried more speedily than would have been possible under the old system of sail-power alone.
'No scare-crow would accept this coat: Such boots as these you seldom see. Ah, Paul, a single five-pound-note Would make another man of me!' Said Paul 'It fills me with surprise To hear you talk in such a tone: I fear you scarcely realise The blessings that are all your own!
I had no more doubt in my own mind and heart that he was he than I have in my mind that I--am I. We do in some mysterious way, you'll own at once, grow so accustomed, so inured, if you like, to each other's faces (masks though they be) that we hardly realise we see them when we are speaking together.
He held his mind steady enough to realise that it was akin to what men call a "descent" of some "spiritual movement" that wakens a body of believers into faith--a race, an entire nation; only that he experienced it in this brief, concentrated form before it has scattered down into ten thousand hearts.