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How to sign: being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; not ghosts"
"real objects"; "real people; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow;
See also: concrete, genuine, echt, realistic, sincere
Similiar / Same: existent
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: very, rattling, really
How to sign: any rational or irrational number
Similiar / Same: real number
Categories: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number
Within this category: irrational number, rational number, scalar product
How to sign: 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";
