to make real
→
to understand
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | realize | |
| meaning 1 | to make something real | The objectives of the project were never fully realized. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to understand, to become aware of smth. | He realized that he had left his umbrella on the train. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | réaliser | |
| meaning 1 | to make something real | Libre et prince qui, s'il est soutenu dans la vie par une femme telle que vous, peut réaliser le rêve de Machiavel, reprendre les conquêtes de César Borgia et devenir le maître de l'Italie !… — (Michel Zévaco, Le Capitan, 1906, Arthème Fayard, collection « Le Livre populaire » no 31, 1907) Free and prince who, if he is supported in life by a woman like you, can realize Machiavelli's dream, resume the conquests of Cesar Borgia and become the master of Italy!… |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to become aware of | J’ai soudain réalisé la situation, prévu que Folcoche, sans paraître ridicule, ne pouvait organiser le siège de son propre fils dans sa propre maison. — (Hervé Bazin, Vipère au poing, Grasset, 1948, page 201)
J’ai été comme cela moi-même, mais j’ai eu bientôt réalisé qu’avant tout Il est bon d’avoir de l’argent à la banque . — (Paul Claudel, L’Échange, 1954, page 751) I suddenly realized the situation, foreseeing that Folcoche, without appearing ridiculous, could not organize the siege of his own son in his own house. I was like that myself, but I soon realized that first of all it is good to have money in the bank. |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | Second meaning from English | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | realisieren | |
| meaning 1 | to make something real | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to understand | |
| reference | Duden | |
| comment | Second meaning from English | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | realizar | |
| meaning 1 | to make something real | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (Belize) to come to comprehend | |
| reference | Hagerty 1996: 136 | |
| comment | Second meaning from English | |
In German, French and Spanish polysemy arose under the influence of the English language