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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

real world en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of real-world.
    alt of real-world

real world en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The realm of human experience comprising physical objects, and excluding theoretical constructs, hypotheses, artificial environments, and "virtual" worlds such as the Internet, computer simulations, or the imagination.
    • And again, real-world poker makes demands on a player that Internet poker does not. [...] Stamina, then, is an asset to your play in the real world. 2003, John Vorhaus, Killer Poker Online:
    • If you’re not in business yet, but plan to launch an Internet business, you’ll ignore the real world at your peril. Notice that all the large Web businesses advertise in the real world. 2001, Peter Kent, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet, page 243:
    • Near-synonym: real life
    • It's time to relocate this experiment from the laboratory into the real world.
    • Bureau of Ordnance's first reaction when they learned of this was to recommend disciplinary action against any U.S. Navy officer who'd made alterations, ostensibly for "improper maintenance" of the Mark 14, which, they continued to insist, was absolutely fine. Meanwhile, back in the real world, the newly-promoted Rear Admiral Lockwood had taken over command of U.S. submarine efforts in the most active part of the Pacific Campaign. With summer of 1942 approaching, his forces had fired off more than a year's production of Mark 14s in around six months, and had precious little to show for it. 2020 February 12, Drachinifel, 15:22 from the start, in The Mark 14 Torpedo - Failure is Like Onions, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2022:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
real worlds Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

real-world time · real-worlder

Relateds

real-world

Synonyms

real life · reality · real reality

Translations (18)

fi tosimaailma (realm comprising physical objects) · ja 実世界 (realm comprising physical objects) · pl real (realm comprising physical objects) · fr vraie vie (realm comprising physical objects) · ar عَالَم وَاقِعِيّ (realm comprising physical objects) · cmn 真實世界 /真实世界 (realm comprising physical objects) · ca món real (realm comprising physical objects) · ru реа́л (realm comprising physical objects) · ko 실세계 (realm comprising physical objects) · es mundo real (realm comprising physical objects) · fi todellisuus (realm comprising physical objects) · pl prawdziwy świat (realm comprising physical objects) · ru реа́льный мир (realm comprising physical objects) · uk реа́льний світ (realm comprising physical objects) · pt mundo real (realm comprising physical objects) · fi tosielämä (realm comprising physical objects) · fr monde réel (realm comprising physical objects) · de reale Welt (realm comprising physical objects)

wikidata: Q9510