Realize

He realized that he had left his umbrella on the train.

She desperately yelled at her young daughter, frantic to make her realize what she had done.

[S]he cannot realize the change we must undergo. She has no idea of poverty but in the abstract: she has only read of it in poetry, where it is allied to love.

But Scott, unaccountable as it seems, evidently failed to realize how far superior is Clara Mowbray [in Saint Ronan's Well] to all his other heroines of the same rank or class.

Have faith in God! He shall dispose thy lot, / Nor weep for woe thou realisest not: / They shall precede thee to the better land, / And meet and greet thee on its joyful strand.

For so bight and placid was the farewell voyage of the little spirit [of a child], […] that it was impossible to realize that it was death that was approaching.

Utterly helpleſs, thou wert ſinking for ever, and realiſedſt not the fearfulneſs of thy poſition, for thus wert thou born and nurtured.

No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

Praise be to God! thou realizest that wine / is a juice that frees the heart from a hundred pains.

SHE wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

I realized at once that indescribable quiver in the air of momentous events.

And for the first time she realised what it was to escape from the smallish perfection of England, into the grander imperfection of a great continent.

[…] Uxbridge thought it could safely ignore the railway[…]. Like many other towns which adopted similar tactics, Uxbridge soon realised its mistake.

Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?

In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing – a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.

Over the mind of the tourist, visiting the Old World for the first time,—countries where have transpired thrilling events recorded in history, what an immensity of thought and feeling sweeps! It was thus with Natalie; she could not realize that she was treading in the footsteps of royalty, who living in long past days, had held sway over this land, had looked upon this land of "merrie England" as their home.

That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.

Its true that Faith may be ſaid, as you ſpeak, to Realize ſalvation to the Soul; that is, vvhen the Soul doubteth vvhether there be indeed ſuch a Glory and Salvation to be expected and enjoyed by Believers, as Chriſt hath promiſed, here Faith apprehendeth it as Real or Certain, and ſo reſolves the doubt.

[T]rue Faith is ſuch as realizeth Things abſent, remote and future. That it is not the nearneſs of a thing makes it real; but Faith ſeeth a Thing to be real, though afar off; vvhen vve are apt to judge many times of the reality of things, becauſe they are near.

[I]t vvas ſo vvarm in my Imagination, and ſo realiz'd to me, that to the Hour I ſavv them, I could not be perſuaded, but that it vvas or vvould be true; […]

[F]aith realiſeth the ſufferings of Chriſt; it looks upon Chriſt as the common treaſury of all grace, as the principle of life, and root of holineſs.

The terror they [apprehensions] gave me, ſeveral times avvakened me; but ſtill, as I cloſed my eyes, I fell into them again. VVhence, my dear, proceed theſe ideal vagaries, vvhich, for the time, realize pain or pleaſure to us, according to their hue or complexion, or rather according to our ovvn?

PUFF. But take care, my dear Dangle, the morning gun is going to fire. [Cannon fires.] / DANGLE. VVell, that vvill have a fine effect. / PUFF. I think ſo, and helps to realize the ſcene.— […]

All joy or ſorrovv for the happineſs or calamities of others, is produced by an act of the imagination, that realiſes the event hovvever fictitious, or approximates it hovvever remote, by placing us for a time in the condition of him vvhoſe fortune vve comtemplate; […]

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

The broken form in which the older Greek inscriptions have been preserved to us, though impairing, is far from destroying their value. […] Many coincidences, slight as well as important, soon begin to appear in them which realize ancient history to us.

Drawings appear fully realized in his mind's eye at a furious rate, before he even picks up his pencil.

Every action that realizes a dream or desire unrealizes it in reality.

We explore the theoretical possibilities of realizing a high-fidelity two-qubit quantum operation necessary for the purification protocol with the help of a postselective balanced homodyne photodetection.

Near-synonyms: implement, execute; actualize, materialize, embody; accomplish

The objectives of the project were never fully realized.

The Apoſtle ſaith, That by Adam ſinne entred into the vvorld. It ſufficeth to knovv; That God, by juſt imputation, realizeth the infection into the vvhole race of Adam; in vvhom vve vvere as in a common Lumpe, and in his leaven ſovvred: […]

[I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus.

[W]e realize vvhat Archimedes had only in Hypotheſis; vveighing a ſingle grain againſt the Globe of Earth.

Rich Death, that realizes all my Cares, / Toils, Virtues, Hopes; vvithout it, a Chimera!

The mention of his gentleman led us to talk of the VVeſtern Iſlands of Scotland, to viſit vvhich he expreſſed a vviſh that then appeared to me a very romantick fancy, vvhich I little thought vvould be aftervvards realized.

[…] I pleaſe myſelf vvith a viſionary anticipation of the future, vvhen my Charles vvill have finiſh'd his apprenticeſhip. […] I ſee him beloved and admired, by all; the honour and pattern of his juvenile contemporaries. O my ſon! hovv happy canſt thou make thy father! in vvhat an ecſtaſy vvilt thou transport him, if thou realizeſt this!

At this very moment when she had undergone her most sublimated allegorical evaporation, his instinct as poet, which never failed him, realized her into woman again in those scenes of almost unapproached pathos which make the climax of his Purgatorio.

By realizing the company’s assets, the liquidator was able to return most of the shareholders’ investments.

Profits from the investment can be realized at any time by selling the shares.

A dealer doing a large amount of business, and turning over his capital rapidly, has but a small portion of it in ready money at any one time. […] [W]hen he retires from business it is into money that he converts the whole, and not until then does he deem himself to have realized his gains: […]

[H]is client was willing to realize most of his assets in order to provide for his wife and eldest daughter.

to realize large profits from a speculation

The tvvo Perſons here mentioned vvere of Quality, each of vvhom in the time of the Miſſiſipi deſpis'd to realize above three hundred thouſand pounds.

Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realise a good estate.

Rodney explained that he knew I cared about the things, and was proud of them, but he'd always supposed I meant to "realize" on them, just as he did, and that it would come to money in the end.

The southern /v/ is realized as the voiced approximant [ʋ].

The phonetic realization of schwa varies; […] Many (probably most) speakers realize it as [ø] or [œ] in other contexts as well. In Midi French, schwa is realized more frequently than in northern varieties, including in word-final position, where it generally (but not always) corresponds to etymological /ə/.

[Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe never sculptured an Apollo, nor painted a Madonna. He gives us only sinful Magdalens and rampant Fauns. He does not so much idealize as realize.

A lucky purchase which he had made of shares in a copper-mine added very considerably to his wealth, and he realised with great prudence while this mine was still at its full vogue.

Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize, a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real.

The estate is expected to realize well as it comprises many valuable assets.