REALIZING
Verb
realizing
present participle of realize
Source: Wiktionary
Re"al*i`zing, a.
Definition: Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality;
as, a realizing view of the danger incurred.
– Re"al*i`zing*ly, adv.
REALIZE
Re"al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Realized; p. pr. & vb. n. Realizing.]
Etym: [Cf. F. réaliser.]
1. To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the
actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish; as, to
realize a scheme or project.
We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single
grain against the globe of earth. Glanvill.
2. To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel
vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.
Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek
inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us. Jowett.
We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no
being at any past moment. Sir W. Hamilton.
3. To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to
realize his fortune.
4. To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of
plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from
a speculation.
Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent
thrift realize a good estate. Macaulay.
5. To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.
Re"al*ize, v. t.
Definition: To convert any kind of property into money, especially property
representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.
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. W. Irving.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition