(transitive) To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
Used in a Sentence
realizes
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for realizes.
Editorial note
However, after rushing to get to the studio, he realizes that he is early — by 3 hours.
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Quick take
(transitive) To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of realizes gathered in one view.
(transitive) (business, finance) Of an asset or property: to generate (a specific amount of money or interest) when invested or sold.
(transitive) (reflexive) To achieve (one's) potential.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for realizes.
verb
(transitive) To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
verb
(transitive) (business, finance) Of an asset or property: to generate (a specific amount of money or interest) when invested or sold.
verb
(transitive) (reflexive) To achieve (one's) potential.
verb
(intransitive) To become aware of or understand a fact or situation.
Example sentences
However, after rushing to get to the studio, he realizes that he is early — by 3 hours.
This changes when a generation after realizes the cons of one thing and seeks out the pros in another.
Or, when a generation who flocked to it, realizes it wasn't all that instrumental to their formation..
Want a song to play and lights to flicker when your smart fridge realizes your milk is almost bad?
Every true professional realizes 100% code coverage is a fool's errand for this exact reason.
Eventually someone looks at the board and realizes that they've won.
Imagine building a house - that the house needs plumbing should be something the architect realizes upfront, not something that should be discovered half way through.
Say a contact realizes you know your stuff.
He learned his lesson and realizes his mistake.
I look forward to the day that the tech industry realizes not everyone is on (or can get access to) an unlimited broadband connection.
I hope her employer realizes how lucky they were to find her, and does whatever it takes to make her happy enough to stay.
I hopefully won't be there when she hits bottom and realizes that what killed both of her grandmas and poisoned her mom could possibly hurt her.
Quote examples
I just saw another article her eabout "PR for startups," more useful than anyone realizes.
"Too much jargon, falsely claimed software engineering practices and overly zealous object oriented mentality" I used to hate all the jargon too but then I realizes it gives programmers a vocabulary to discuss things.
Yes, but I think the author realizes that, which is why (s)he wrote above "this will produce an error, since running a generator function twice is not allowed, and this would not re-use the same items in memory anyway, which is kind of the main point with stream processing ".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use realizes in a sentence?
However, after rushing to get to the studio, he realizes that he is early — by 3 hours.
What does realizes mean?
(transitive) To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
What part of speech is realizes?
realizes is commonly used as verb.