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visualize
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb visualize has 4 senses
- visualize(v = verb.creation) envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise - imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" is one way to conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine
- visualize(v = verb.perception) visualise - view the outline of by means of an X-ray; "The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver" is one way to catch, see, take in, view, watch
- visualize(v = verb.creation) visualise - form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract; "Mathematicians often visualize" is one way to conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine
- visualize(v = verb.change) visualise - make visible; "With this machine, ultrasound can be visualized" is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived forms noun visualization1, noun visualizer1
Sample sentence:
Did he visualize his major works over a short period of time?
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CIDE DICTIONARY
visualize, v. t.
- To make visual, or visible. [1913 Webster]
- to see in the imagination; to form a mental image of. [1913 Webster]"No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly visualize them." [1913 Webster]
visualize, v. i.
To form a mental image of something not present before the eye at the time. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
visualize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 make visible esp. to one's mind (a thing not visible to the eye).
2 make visible to the eye.
1 make visible esp. to one's mind (a thing not visible to the eye).
2 make visible to the eye.
Derivative
visualizable adj. visualization n.
THESAURUS
visualize
anticipate, apprehend, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, conceive, conjure up, contemplate, divine, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, foreknow, image, imagine, just see, look upon, objectify, picture, prevision, realize, regard, represent, see, summon up, view, visionROGET THESAURUS
visualize
Imagination
VB imagine, fancy, conceive, idealize, realize, dream, dream of, dream up, give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate, improvise, strike out something new, set one's wits to work, strain one's invention, crack one's invention, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains, excogitate, brainstorm, give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy, indulge in reverie, visualize, envision, conjure up a vision, fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself, vorstellen, float in the mind, suggest itself.
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