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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
actualize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Sometimes mistakes are necessary steps toward actualizing your goals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, male and female is not a relationship; there must exist love or desire to actualize and sustain the relationship.
▪ The difficulty in actualizing this ambiguity in script form is the reason I initially turned down the job.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Actualize

Actualize \Ac"tu*al*ize\, v. t. To make actual; to realize in action. [R.]
--Coleridge.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
actualize

1810, first attested in Coleridge, from actual + -ize. Related: Actualized; actualizing.

Wiktionary
actualize

alt. 1 (context transitive English) To make real; to realize. 2 (context intransitive English) To become actual or real. 3 (context reflexive English) To realize one's full potential. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make real; to realize. 2 (context intransitive English) To become actual or real. 3 (context reflexive English) To realize one's full potential.

WordNet
actualize
  1. v. make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions" [syn: realize, realise, actualise, substantiate]

  2. represent or describe realistically [syn: actualise]

Usage examples of "actualize".

No doubt the eternally self-identical may have potentiality and be self-led to self-realization, but even in this case the being considered as actualized is of higher order than the being considered as merely capable of actualization and moving towards a desired Term.

Kosmos that produced the human brain are being, to some degree, recognized by that brain: in this special sense, they are discoveries, un-coveries, recognitions, anamnesias, recollections, apprehensions of patterns and worldspaces present as potentials but only now being actualized or apprehended in individual cases.

For if it were actually something, that actualized something would not be Matter, or at least not Matter out and out, but merely Matter in the limited sense in which bronze is the matter of the statue.

The source of power, according to the doctrinaire democrats was in the broadest, most undifferentiated mass of the population, and not in the spiritually differentiated strata born with the mission of accomplishing the life-task of the Nation, and actualizing the national Idea.

The convergence of struggles posed on an international scale the problem of transforming laboring cooperation into revolutionary organization and actualizing the virtual political unity.

This is the power of your tzaddik, but it is not fully realized until you actualize it.

For example, the carceral architecture of the panopticon, which makes inmates constantly visible to a central point of power, is the diagram or virtual design that is actualized in the various disciplinary dispositifs.

Under the thick layer of game-theory was another level, a submarginal syndrome of hate and desire and terrible fear: jealousy of Benteley, a ceaseless terror of death, involved schemes and plans, a complicated gestalt of need and goal-oriented drive actualized in an overpowering sledge-hammer of ambition.

Kosmos that produced the human brain are being, to some degree, recognized by that brain: in this special sense, they are discoveries, un-coveries, recognitions, anamnesias, recollections, apprehensions of patterns and worldspaces present as potentials but only now being actualized or apprehended in individual cases.

Although we have a lower unconscious that contains mainly images and fantasies, says Plotinus, all of the higher levels of being are for most people merely potentials waiting to be actualized in their own case and manifested in their own being.

Though society, or the communion of man with his Maker through his kind, is not all that man needs in order to live, to grow, to actualize the possibilities of his nature, and to attain to his beatitude, since humanity is neither God nor the material universe, it is yet a necessary and essential condition of his life, his progress, and the completion of his existence.

However well that does indeed describe aspects of mythic dissociation, it has precisely nothing to do with one's own transpersonal potentials, vertical potentials that if they aren't actualized are merely projected horizontally into utterly futile schemes to turn this finite world into a Utopian world of infinite wonderment: an infinite above collapses into an infinite ahead, and whether that infinite ahead be endless scientific progress or boundless material possessions or political utopianisms as ultimate salvation, they are all fundamentally ways of fussing about in the finite looking for the infinite, and doing irreparable harm to the finite world in the process by placing demands upon it which it could never fulfill.

She used the alla to create a little aquarium, then projected into the water a bright-line disk-shape that actualized into a clear bell of jelly-which began steadily beating.

Shimmer used her body's internal alla to project a bright-line cube that actualized itself into a knee-high block of imipolex.

Second, he actualized a golf-ball-sized sphere that resembled perhaps a goldfish bowl with luminous fish in it.