The Collaborative International Dictionary
Real \Re"al\ (r[=e]"al), a. [LL. realis, fr. L. res, rei, a thing: cf. F. r['e]el. Cf. Rebus.]
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Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
Whereat I waked, and found Before mine eyes all real, as the dream Had lively shadowed.
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True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
Whose perfection far excelled Hers in all real dignity.
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Relating to things, not to persons. [Obs.]
Many are perfect in men's humors that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.
--Bacon. (Alg.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
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(Law) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.
Chattels real (Law), such chattels as are annexed to, or savor of, the realty, as terms for years of land. See Chattel.
Real action (Law), an action for the recovery of real property.
Real assets (Law), lands or real estate in the hands of the heir, chargeable with the debts of the ancestor.
Real composition (Eccl. Law), an agreement made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof.
--Blackstone.Real estate or Real property, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property in houses and land.
--Kent.
--Burrill.Real presence (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation.
Real servitude, called also Predial servitude (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor.
--Erskine.
--Bouvier.Syn: Actual; true; genuine; authentic.
Usage: Real, Actual. Real represents a thing to be a substantive existence; as, a real, not imaginary, occurrence. Actual refers to it as acted or performed; and, hence, when we wish to prove a thing real, we often say, ``It actually exists,'' ``It has actually been done.'' Thus its reality is shown by its actuality. Actual, from this reference to being acted, has recently received a new signification, namely, present; as, the actual posture of affairs; since what is now in action, or going on, has, of course, a present existence. An actual fact; a real sentiment.
For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.
--Dryden.Our simple ideas are all real; all agree to the reality of things.
--Locke.
Usage examples of "real assets".
I will not be able to reach that stage unless I can prove to them, with independently audited figures, that their loans are secured on real assets and a positive cash flow.
But the fact is that there are now more claims outstanding than real assets.
Since the real assets of the company in four years had increased in value sixfold to more than $200 million, not to mention the tremendous profits that were just beginning to roll in, Ripley Forte computed that he had been diddled out of a round $100 million.
Those things represent real assets -- factories, ships, bananas, software, gold, whatever.
Dorma has only a few real assets: the militia, which Caesare commands for me.
Irregulars are simply incapable of hurting the enemy where his real assets are.
You lived with what you did have and took pride in your real assets, not the ones you wished you possessed.