What's the difference between ensure and realize?

Ensure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make sure. See Insure.
  • (v. t.) To betroth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (3) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
  • (4) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
  • (5) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
  • (6) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (7) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (8) The method of preparative isotachophoresis in acrylamide gel ensuring a high yield of IgD and IgE with insignificant admixtures of IgG, etc.
  • (9) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (10) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
  • (11) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
  • (12) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
  • (13) For some proteins, properly folded protein may be obtained by secretion from E. coli; however, secretion does not ensure correct folding and protection from proteolytic degradation.
  • (14) Of course it is important to ensure shareholders enjoy the benefits of investing in the company, they are the owners.
  • (15) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
  • (16) The following 10 products were tested: Ensure Plus, Ensure, Enrich, Osmolite, Pulmocare, Citrotein, Resource, Vivonex TEN, Vital, and Hepatic Acid II.
  • (17) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
  • (18) It will be a slow process to ensure everything is in place, such as ensuring there is consistent fresh drinking water and a sewerage system, but they lived there very happily before.
  • (19) The different distribution and release of initiating enzymes for all these radical processes ensures the spatial and temporal control of their reactions.
  • (20) Santander's new mortgage range complements this, putting our relationship with our customers at the heart of our business and ensuring they get the right mortgage for them – one they can afford and which meets their needs."

Realize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.
  • (v. t.) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.
  • (v. t.) To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.
  • (v. t.) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.
  • (v. t.) To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.
  • (v. i.) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (2) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (3) The affect of mutations in chromosomal genes determining the realization of RecBC and RecF pathways of recombination in E. coli K12 on the frequency of transposon Tn5 precise excision from the genome of the conjugative plasmid pNM1 has been demonstrated.
  • (4) As a result of the information gained from these studies, together with the normal dose-response curve previously established (Fitzgerald, 1971), a satisfactory quantitative and reproducible method suitable for routine clinical use has been realized.
  • (5) Considering the construction of the bite, beside the two usual procedures: a direct and indirect method with the different steps of the laboratory, we can realize a mixed one which all the advantages without the defects of both.
  • (6) The results showed that the two groups differed greatly in their attitudes over a wide range of topics; many staff members did not realize how much and in what ways seclusion affects patients.
  • (7) Postoperative recovery after both operations was uneventful and the aim of reconstruction fully realized.
  • (8) On the background of this recognition it is also important to know, that prognosis too varies with age because of the coexistence of individually prognosticated disease states and moreover to realize, that elderly patients do not tolerate invasive and prolonged surgical procedures.
  • (9) If there is any advantage to a particular strategy for selecting the distance monovision eye, it must be realized in vision performance areas other than visual acuity.
  • (10) The involvement of phospholipids into the function of the hormonoreactive system realizing the catecholamine action on the skeletal muscle metabolism was studied at different stages of chicken ontogenetic development.
  • (11) The discovered statistical regularity was realized as a nomogram for calculating the degree of severity and individual optimal doses of ribonuclease and fluorofur.
  • (12) When such a strategy obviously failed, the association of elevated blood pressure with dyslipoproteinemia and impaired glucose tolerance attracted more attention, particularly when it was realized that many antihypertensive drugs affected risk in MCVS in a possible negative way.
  • (13) Early work showed a relationship between these two molecules, which we wished to further document, in particular because of the growing realization of the functional importance of CD28 in some T cell activation pathways.
  • (14) I realize it’s petty, but it’s like the Michael Bolton thing from Office Space.
  • (15) Morphometry of photographed semithin sections was realized after whole body glutaraldehyde perfusion with semiautomatic MOP AM 02 and MOP Videoplan.
  • (16) Research Institute of Endocrinology and Hormone Chemistry, Khar'kov It was shown that realization of a neoplastic process in the breast is determined, in particular, by the chemical structure of agents employed and their dosage.
  • (17) The most considerable realization of the hydrophobic interaction with the surroundings of the enzyme esteratic site was marked for n-butyl derivative (compound I).
  • (18) A reflex nature of the vegetative effects of opioid peptides and the role of both mu- and delta-receptors in their realization are suggested.
  • (19) These fiscal savings have been realized by our students and their parents.
  • (20) Technology assessment is becoming increasingly important in the area of critical care due both to the explosion of technology associated with this discipline and to the realization that future demand for these health care resources will undoubtedly exceed the ability to pay.