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REALIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something that is made real or concrete
Example:
the victory was the realization of a whole year's work
Synonyms:
fruition; realisation; realization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("realization" is a kind of...):
consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)
Derivation:
realize (make real or concrete; give reality or substance to)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Making real or giving the appearance of reality
Synonyms:
actualisation; actualization; realisation; realization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("realization" is a kind of...):
creating by mental acts (the act of creating something by thinking)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "realization"):
objectification (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)
Derivation:
realize (make real or concrete; give reality or substance to)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer
Synonyms:
realisation; realization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("realization" is a kind of...):
composing; composition (musical creation)
Derivation:
realize (expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained
Synonyms:
realisation; realization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("realization" is a kind of...):
cut-rate sale; sale; sales event (an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices)
Derivation:
realize (convert into cash; of goods and property)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
Example:
increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases
Synonyms:
realisation; realization; recognition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("realization" is a kind of...):
apprehension; discernment; savvy; understanding (the cognitive condition of someone who understands)
Derivation:
realize (perceive (an idea or situation) mentally)
realize (be fully aware or cognizant of)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer
Synonyms:
realisation; realization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("realization" is a kind of...):
composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)
Derivation:
realize (expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass)
Context examples:
When I walked alone in the fine weather, and thought of the summer days when all the air had been filled with my boyish enchantment, I did miss something of the realization of my dreams; but I thought it was a softened glory of the Past, which nothing could have thrown upon the present time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
What I missed, I still regarded—I always regarded—as something that had been a dream of my youthful fancy; that was incapable of realization; that I was now discovering to be so, with some natural pain, as all men did.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I do not think that the best embodiment of chivalry, the realization of the handsomest and most romantic figure ever imagined by painter, could have said this, with a more impressive and affecting dignity than the plain old Doctor did.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
