What's the difference between real and tangible?

Real


Definition:

  • (n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
  • (a.) Royal; regal; kingly.
  • (a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
  • (a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
  • (a.) Relating to things, not to persons.
  • (a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
  • (a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.
  • (n.) A realist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a plot based around fake (or real?)
  • (3) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
  • (4) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
  • (5) The light intensity profile for any desired cell can be examined in "real time", even during acceleration of the rotor.
  • (6) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
  • (7) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
  • (8) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
  • (9) 75 min: Real Madrid substitution: Angel Di Maria off, Ricky Kaka on.
  • (10) It is clear that the linking of the naming rights to West Ham United generates real cash value for the LLDC and the taxpayer.
  • (11) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
  • (12) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
  • (13) Zidane is the 15th manager Real Madrid have had since 2003.
  • (14) Further studies are required to show whether these differences are real and, if so, whether they have any relevance for the pathogenesis of migraine attacks.
  • (15) Real Labour would not just meddle with a cosmetic charge on rich London mansions .
  • (16) Thus, luciferase transcriptional fusions can detect subtle variations in initial rates of gene expression in a real-time, nondestructive assay.
  • (17) Thus, 10 degrees should be subtracted from the ultrasound values in order to obtain the real AV angles.
  • (18) It was not certain whether the association was real or what the explanation might be.
  • (19) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
  • (20) The resulting corner is dealt with easily by Real, who scoot upfield through Di Maria.

Tangible


Definition:

  • (a.) Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
  • (a.) Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
  • (2) These incentives provided employees with evidence of tangible support for continuing education.
  • (3) In what is being hailed as one of the first tangible signs in a change of outlook for Greece, the European Investment Bank has also agreed to inject up to €750m into the cashed-starved Greek economy with immediate effect.
  • (4) Tony Abbott and Barack Obama: the Australian PM hopes the G20 can achieve something tangible under his presidency.
  • (5) This week, Shenhua Australia chairman, Liu Xiang, turned up the pressure on Hunt, telling Guardian Australia that, after eight years, “Shenhua has spent $700m and has little tangible progress to show for this investment in NSW.” If Hunt gives the green light, Shenhua will begin work on the first of three pits covering 3,500 hectares, from which it will export nearly 270m tonnes of coal over the next 30 years.
  • (6) The tangible, emotional and informational functions of social support were measured as aggregate values across support sources.
  • (7) She is, like a lot of women are, supported by organizers working to keep momentum going for tangible, systemic change, even in the wake of such collective, ongoing pain.
  • (8) One procedure employed a tangibly reinforced operant-conditioning paradigm for pure tones, and the other test was based on a modification of operant conditioning for obtaining speech-reception thresholds.
  • (9) We're asking you to test this thing which is less tangible and less transactable, which is your privacy."
  • (10) Recent work of the Health Education Project (HEP) at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, has demonstrated tangible ways of eliminating some of the barriers that limit consumers in receiving health services in an out-patient setting.
  • (11) I haven't seen Good Morning Britain because it's on in the morning, a time of day I dismiss as mere myth, as tangible as the eighth dimension, but it had a controversial debut.
  • (12) The focus is on how commissioning can add tangible value and make positive changes for our healthcare clients.
  • (13) Park has repeatedly said the door to dialogue with Pyongyang is open, but insists the North must first take tangible steps towards abandoning its nuclear weapons programme.
  • (14) If it is to be successful, any behaviour change approach that aims to encourage the take-up of a product or service will have to provide real, personal and tangible advantages for today’s new consumers.
  • (15) Tangible, emotional and information support did not change pre- and postnatally for women who breastfed.
  • (16) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
  • (17) Examples of social marketing are then provided from developing countries and are analyzed in groupings defined as tangible products, sustained health practices, and service utilization.
  • (18) For longer-term planning, make sure you have tangible, realistic objectives.
  • (19) This paper discusses in qualitative terms these tangible and intangible benefits and the factors that impact their realization and maximization.
  • (20) Kiir and Machar met last weekend in the Kenyan capital Nairobi for the latest push to strike a peace deal, but rebel spokesman Mabior Garang said they “failed to bear any tangible results”.