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Meaning of "literalize" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LITERALIZE

literalize  [ˈlɪtərəlˌaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LITERALIZE

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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Literalize is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb literalize in English.

WHAT DOES LITERALIZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of literalize in the English dictionary

The definition of literalize in the dictionary is to make literal or interpret literally.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO LITERALIZE

PRESENT

Present
I literalize
you literalize
he/she/it literalizes
we literalize
you literalize
they literalize
Present continuous
I am literalizing
you are literalizing
he/she/it is literalizing
we are literalizing
you are literalizing
they are literalizing
Present perfect
I have literalized
you have literalized
he/she/it has literalized
we have literalized
you have literalized
they have literalized
Present perfect continuous
I have been literalizing
you have been literalizing
he/she/it has been literalizing
we have been literalizing
you have been literalizing
they have been literalizing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I literalized
you literalized
he/she/it literalized
we literalized
you literalized
they literalized
Past continuous
I was literalizing
you were literalizing
he/she/it was literalizing
we were literalizing
you were literalizing
they were literalizing
Past perfect
I had literalized
you had literalized
he/she/it had literalized
we had literalized
you had literalized
they had literalized
Past perfect continuous
I had been literalizing
you had been literalizing
he/she/it had been literalizing
we had been literalizing
you had been literalizing
they had been literalizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will literalize
you will literalize
he/she/it will literalize
we will literalize
you will literalize
they will literalize
Future continuous
I will be literalizing
you will be literalizing
he/she/it will be literalizing
we will be literalizing
you will be literalizing
they will be literalizing
Future perfect
I will have literalized
you will have literalized
he/she/it will have literalized
we will have literalized
you will have literalized
they will have literalized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been literalizing
you will have been literalizing
he/she/it will have been literalizing
we will have been literalizing
you will have been literalizing
they will have been literalizing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would literalize
you would literalize
he/she/it would literalize
we would literalize
you would literalize
they would literalize
Conditional continuous
I would be literalizing
you would be literalizing
he/she/it would be literalizing
we would be literalizing
you would be literalizing
they would be literalizing
Conditional perfect
I would have literalize
you would have literalize
he/she/it would have literalize
we would have literalize
you would have literalize
they would have literalize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been literalizing
you would have been literalizing
he/she/it would have been literalizing
we would have been literalizing
you would have been literalizing
they would have been literalizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you literalize
we let´s literalize
you literalize
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to literalize
Past participle
literalized
Present Participle
literalizing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LITERALIZE


aerosolize
ˈɛərəsɒlˌaɪz
archaize
ˈɑːkɪˌaɪz
atheize
ˈeɪθɪˌaɪz
citizenize
ˈsɪtɪz ənˌaɪz
diphthongize
ˈdɪfθɒŋˌaɪz
fetishize
ˈfɛtɪʃˌaɪz
ghettoise
ˈɡetəʊˌaɪz
Hebraize
ˈhiːbreɪˌaɪz
jasperize
ˈdʒæspərˌaɪz
Judaize
ˈdʒʊdeɪˌaɪz
kaolinize
ˈkeɪəlɪnˌaɪz
linearize
ˈlɪnɪərˌaɪz
masculinise
ˈmæskjʊlɪnˌaɪz
nomadize
ˈnəʊmædˌaɪz
orthogonalise
ɔːˈθɒɡənəlˌaɪz
orthogonalize
ɔːˈθɒɡənəlˌaɪz
restabilize
ˌriːˈsteɪbɪlˌaɪz
rhetorize
ˈretərˌaɪz
riotise
ˈraɪətˌaɪz
rivalize
ˈraɪvəlˌaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LITERALIZE

literal
literal error
literal-minded
literal-mindedness
literalisation
literaliser
literalism
literalist
literalistic
literalistically
literality
literalization
literalizer
literally
literalness
literarily
literariness
literary
literary agency
literary agent

WORDS THAT END LIKE LITERALIZE

Belize
capitalize
contextualize
crystalize
finalize
generalize
immortalize
initialize
legalize
localize
marginalize
materialize
neutralize
normalize
personalize
realize
revitalize
socialize
specialize
vandalize
visualize

Synonyms and antonyms of literalize in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «literalize» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LITERALIZE

Find out the translation of literalize to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of literalize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «literalize» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

literalize
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

literalizar
570 millions of speakers

English

literalize
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

literalize
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

literalize
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

literalize
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

literaliza
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

literalize
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

literalize
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Literalis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wörtlich zu
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

literalize
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

literalize
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Literalize
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

literalize
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

literalize
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Literalize
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

literalize
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prendere le cose alla lettera
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

literalize
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

literalize
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

literalize
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

literalize
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

literalize
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

literalize
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

literalize
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of literalize

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LITERALIZE»

The term «literalize» is used very little and occupies the 182.095 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LITERALIZE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «literalize» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «literalize» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about literalize

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITERALIZE»

Discover the use of literalize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to literalize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Data ...
The program consists of three parts: literalize statements (1), (2) defining the data structures; a rule (production) (3) - (10); and initialization of the fact-base (working memory in OPS5 jargon) (11) - (15). (1) (literalize assignment name priority ...
Catriel Beeri, Umeshwar Dayal, Joachim W. Schmidt, 1988
2
Proceedings of the Workshop on AI and Distributed Problem ...
OPS-style productions are easily modified by adding partitioning information to literalize declarations (see the OPS5 manual [Forgy 1981]). The declarations for PHYSICAL-OBJECT in our first example (when a small finite domain of attribute ...
‎1985
3
Logic Programming '88: Proceedings of the 7th Conference, ...
The order of the arguments except the built-in arguments are determined by " literalize" command as follows; literalize(man,[name,weight]) where the first argument defines the class name of the pattern. The second argument is a list in which ...
Koichi Furukawa, Hozumi Tanaka, Tetsunosuke Fujisaki, 1989
4
Artificial Intelligence Handbook: Applications
declaration section for rule-based simulator (vector-attribute to-list) (literalize block block-num block-type) (literalize from origin to-list) (literalize state-var-at time-stamp block-num output) (literalize input-var-at time-stamp block-num value)  ...
A. Eli Nisenfeld, 1989
5
Methods and Tools for Applied Artificial Intelligence
The class name and the attribute names are also symbolic atoms, so that each element class in OPS-5 is declared by • (liberalise class name attribute 1 attribute 2 attribute n) where literalize is the OPS-5 command and CLASS-NAME, attribute  ...
Popovic, 1994
6
Nuclear Madness: Religion and the Psychology of the Nuclear Age
But as long as we literalize every image in order to avoid dealing with its deeper mythic meaning, we must also literalize Hades and perceive it only as literal extinction. We must act like waking people dealing with our nuclear images, which ...
Ira Chernus, 1991
7
What's the Truth About Heaven and Hell?:
... God might be like. If heaven were a literal city with golden streets, of course that would be beautiful. There is no need to literalize this detail in order to be faithful to the text, any more than we need to literalize other details of the Apocalypse.
Douglas A. Jacoby, 2013
8
Rhetorics of Display
The study in this chapter shows that the adversarial ethic of Anglo-American legal procedures makes it difficult to literalize metaphors, through verbal or visual means, since they always are potentially open to rebuttals and, thus, refiguration;  ...
Lawrence J. Prelli, 2006
9
Revelation Revolution
The law of hermeneutics does not allow us to spiritualize one thing and then literalize something else. Jesus had something to say about man's doctrine called a literal, physical rapture, a literal, physical catching away, and we can find it in our ...
Kay Fairchild, Lisa Perdue, 2003
10
Language and the Distortion of Meaning
That is, they all depend upon our ability (having defined the self with words) to literalize the self as a thing, and to then (for example) feel the need to belong as being a function of reified tokens of acceptance. If children may be mortified by a  ...
Patrick De Gramont, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LITERALIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term literalize is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Little-Known Engineer Who Made the First Abstract Paintings in …
But its signal forms are cut from pieces of wood that literalize the spatial effects that Dawson had earlier achieved strictly in paint. At the same ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
2
Penny Dreadful postmortem: Showrunner John Logan breaks down …
Now in Penny Dreadful, we get to literalize those flaws, if you will, because we can have monsters. We can have werewolves and vampires and ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jul 15»
3
Penny Dreadful: Vanessa to Face Off Against...Vanessa?
Something she could literalize as the demon within." And as for the sad fate of Sembene, Logan clarified that there was a big reason why the ... «IGN, Jul 15»
4
Broadway San Jose's BOOK OF MORMON is Heavenly Now thru …
... mistake - it's also a ringing condemnation of religion's tendency to literalize their particular stories and focus on the afterlife instead of this life. «Broadway World, Jul 15»
5
Magic Mike sequel a strip off the old block
... by Ginuwine — and proceeds to boogie in his own workshop, at one point employing an industrial grinder to literalize his bump-and-grind. «Winnipeg Free Press, Jul 15»
6
In England, Glenn Ligon Brings Together the (American) Works that …
Farquharson prompted Ligon to consider how “it could be quite interesting to literalize things that I had thought about or written about, make ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
7
Summer movie cage match
The box office has always been a battleground. We thought we'd literalize it, pitting a few characters from this summer's movies against one ... «NOW Magazine, Jun 15»
8
Dope: Comedic challenge to typical African-American stereotypes is …
Malcolm's underworld entanglements literalize that notion and underscore its absurdity. The added punchline is that Malcolm's deep-Web ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
9
How Ryan Sheckler Went From Skateboarding Prodigy to Celebrity
I literalize all my tricks, I close my eyes and visualize, the landing, how I want it to look to the people, you know. This is where it all started, ... «ABC News, Jun 15»
10
'Inside Out' packs an emotional journey for kids and adults
The ways in which director Pete Docter (Up) and the Pixar animation team literalize parents' worst fears regarding their child's loss of ... «Las Vegas Weekly, Jun 15»

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