realize

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But guess what, once you're done with the hours of torture to get good, then you realize the fun.

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Quick take

be fully aware or cognizant of

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of realize gathered in one view.

verb

be fully aware or cognizant of

verb

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"

verb

make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for realize.

verb

be fully aware or cognizant of

See also: recognize, recognise, realise, agnize, agnise

verb

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"

verb

make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions"

See also: realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate

verb

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"

See also: gain, clear, make, earn, realise

verb

convert into cash; of goods and property

verb

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

Example sentences

But guess what, once you're done with the hours of torture to get good, then you realize the fun.

Until you realize that your work is for others, not yourself, you will continue to spin your wheels.

I realize it's trying to make a point, but all it's really doing is making me suspect that it's fibbing a bit.

When you talk to them you realize that on Stack Overflow, answering questions is about learning.

"To which the smart businessman replied, "Do you realize how much it would cost to park my Rolls Royce at the airport for a week?

But now, after trying to checkout on that site myself, I realize that it's fair to treat people who knowingly aid scammers, this way.

And realize youre part of historyNo, sorry, but you probably aren't.

So, what happens when you get the runtime error and realize that bar is defined in another package you forgot to import.

Maybe so, but I don't think it hurts to be a little more objective towards our heroes and realize that they can be prone to misjudgment too.

But for me this made me realize how vulnerable non-citizens are when it comes to US immigration and border patrol.

This talk of "right-brain" revolution has become so popular that no one even realizes the fundamental irony of it all.

Would you?Well, the first big thing Bezos realized is that the infrastructure they'd built for selling and shipping books and sundry could be transformed an excellent repurposable computing platform.

You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a shit about your day.#6, however, was quite real, so people went to work.

My story is just one datapoint of so many -- most of which are private, but easily discoverable by quietly asking around the Valley -- that should help you realize that Facebook is definitely not the company you want operating the world's social infrastructure.

Much in the same way, when you've crammed the ifs and elses, the fors and whiles, the variables and constants, the pointers and pointers to pointers, and pointers to functions, and pointers to pointers to pointers to functions, and then you go on to build that thingamabob or model that gene sequence or understand that earthquake, then you realize the true power of what you've been working with.