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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
real
adjective
1: being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified
existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people;
not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real
illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is
earnest!"- Longfellow [syn: {existent}] [ant: {unreal}]
2: no less than what is stated; worthy of the name; "the real
reason"; "real war"; "a real friend"; "a real woman";
"meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal"; "it's time
he had a real job"; "it's no penny-ante job--he's making
real money" [syn: {real(a)}] [ant: {unreal}]
3: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of
something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a
desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: {actual},
{genuine}, {literal}]
4: not synthetic or spurious; of real or natural origin; "real
mink"; "true gold" [syn: {true}]
5: not to be taken lightly; "statistics demonstrate that
poverty and unemployment are very real problems"; "to the
man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real"
6: possible to be treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his
brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to
the poor" [syn: {tangible}]
7: being value measured in terms of purchasing power; "real
prices"; "real income"; "real wages" [ant: {nominal}]
8: having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not
imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither
substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and
substantial things"- Shakespeare [syn: {substantial}, {material}]
[ant: {insubstantial}]
9: (of property) fixed or immovable; "real property consists of
land and buildings; real estate"
10: coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a
surprising resemblance to veridical perception"-
F.A.Olafson [syn: {veridical}]
11: founded on practical matters; "a recent graduate
experiencing the real world for the first time"
noun
1: any rational or irrational number [syn: {real number}]
2: an old small silver Spanish coin
adverb: used as intensifiers; 'real' is sometimes used informally
for 'really'; 'rattling' is informal; "she was very
gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable
evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good
yarn" [syn: {very}, {really}, {rattling}]
[also: {reis} (pl), {reales} (pl)]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Real \Re*al"\ (r[asl]*[aum]l"), adjective
Royal; regal; kingly. [Obs.] ''The blood real of Thebes.''
--Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Real \Re"al\ (r[=e]"al), adjective [LL. realis, fr. L. res, rei, a
thing: cf. F. r['e]el. Cf. {Rebus}.]
1. 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. --Milton.
2. 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. --Milton.
3. 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.
4. (Alg.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical
value or meaning; not imaginary.
5. (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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Real \Re"al\ (r[=e]"al), noun
A realist. [Obs.] --Burton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Real \Re"al\ (r[=e]"al), noun [Sp., fr. real royal, L. regalis.
See {Regal}, and cf. {Ree} a coin.]
A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of
account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
Note: A real of plate (coin) varied in value according to the
time of its coinage, from 121/2 down to 10 cents, or
from 61/2 to 5 pence sterling. The real vellon, or
money of account, was nearly equal to five cents, or
21/2 pence sterling. In 1871 the coinage of Spain was
assimilated to that of the Latin Union, of which the
franc is the unit.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
235 Moby Thesaurus words for "real":
Gaussian integer, absolute, actual, admitting no question,
algebraic number, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, almighty,
appreciable, ascertained, attested, authentic, authenticated,
awfully, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, cardinal,
cardinal number, categorically true, certain, certified,
complex number, concrete, confirmable, confirmed, corporeal,
corroborated, de facto, decimal, defective number, demonstrable,
demonstratable, demonstrated, determined, differential, digital,
dinkum, documentary, earnest, effectual, essential, established,
even, even number, exceedingly, existent, exponential, factual,
feodal, feudal, feudatory, figural, figurate, figurative, finite,
finite number, following the letter, for real, fraction,
fractional, genuine, good, heartfelt, historical, honest,
honest-to-God, imaginary, imaginary number, impair, impossible,
inappealable, inartificial, incontestable, incontrovertible,
indisputable, indubitable, infinite, infinity, integer, integral,
intrinsic, irrational, irrational number, irrefragable,
irrefutable, just, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, lifelike,
literal, logarithmic, logometric, loyal, manorial, material,
mightily, mighty, mixed number, natural, naturalistic, negative,
not in error, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric,
objectively true, odd, official, only too, ordinal, original, pair,
palpable, physical, polygonal number, ponderable, positive,
possible, powerful, powerfully, praedial, pretty, prime,
prime number, proper, provable, proved, pure, pure imaginary,
quite, radical, rational, rational number, real number, realistic,
really, reciprocal, rectangular number, right, rightful,
round number, seigneurial, seignioral, self-evident, sensible,
serial number, simon-pure, simple, sincere, so, solid, sterling,
submultiple, substantial, substantiated, substantive, surd,
sure-enough, tangible, terribly, terrifically, testable,
transcendental, transcendental number, transfinite number, true,
true as gospel, true to life, true to nature, true to reality,
trusted, trustworthy, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected,
unanswerable, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted,
unconfutable, unconfuted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeniable,
undenied, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, undoubted,
unerroneous, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfallacious, unfalse,
unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering,
unimagined, unimitated, unimpeachable, uninvented, unlikely,
unmistaken, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unquestionable,
unrefutable, unrefuted, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious,
unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, validated, veracious, verbal,
verbatim, veridical, verifiable, verified, verisimilar, veritable,
very, whole number, word-for-word
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
real adjective Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to {virtual}
in any of its jargon senses.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
real
1. Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to
{virtual} in any of its jargon senses.
2. {real number}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1997-03-12)
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Real -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 3047
Housing Units (2000): 2007
Land area (2000): 699.912987 sq. miles (1812.766238 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.130253 sq. miles (0.337354 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 700.043240 sq. miles (1813.103592 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.776707 N, 99.872864 W
Headwords:
Real
Real, TX
Real County
Real County, TX
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