2. to see in the imagination; to form a mental image of.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly visualize them. --Lubbock. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Visualize — Vis u*al*ize, v. i. To form a mental image of something not present before the eye at the time. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
visualize — index compose, conceive (comprehend), conjure, discern (detect with the senses), invent (produce for the first time) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton … Law dictionary
visualize — 1817, first attested in, and perhaps coined by, Coleridge; see VISUAL (Cf. visual) + IZE (Cf. ize). Related: Visualized; visualizing … Etymology dictionary
visualize — (Amer.) vis·u·al·ize || vɪʒʊəlaɪz v. picture, envisage, conjure up, imagine; make image of internal organs by means of x rays (also visualise) … English contemporary dictionary
visualize — [v] make a picture of in the mind anticipate, apprehend, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, conceive of, conjure up, create, divine, dream up, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, foresee, get the picture*, image, imagine, object, picture,… … New thesaurus
visualize — (also visualise) ► VERB ▪ form a mental image of; imagine. DERIVATIVES visualization noun … English terms dictionary
visualize — [vizh′o͞o əl īz΄] vt. visualized, visualizing [ VISUAL + IZE] to form a mental image of (something not present to the sight, an abstraction, etc.); envision vi. to form a mental image visualization n … English World dictionary
visualize — v. 1) (d; tr.) to visualize as (I cannot visualize him as a famous star) 2) (J) I cannot visualize him becoming a famous star 3) (K) I cannot visualize his becoming a famous star * * * [ vɪʒʊəlaɪz] (J) I cannot visualize him becoming a famous… … Combinatory dictionary
visualize — vi|su|al|ize also visualise BrE [ˈvıʒuəlaız] v [T] to form a picture of someone or something in your mind = ↑imagine ▪ I tried to visualize the house while he was describing it. visualize sb doing sth ▪ Somehow I can t visualize myself staying… … Dictionary of contemporary English
visualize — also ise BrE verb (T) to form a picture of someone or something in your mind; imagine: Try to visualize a successful future. | visualize sb doing sth: Somehow I can t visualize myself teaching adults. | visualize how/what etc: It s hard to… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
