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visualize, visualise [ˈvɪʒʊəˌlaɪz -zjʊ-] vb
1. (Psychology) to form a mental image of (something incapable of being viewed or not at that moment visible) 2. (Medicine) Med to view by means of an X-ray the outline of (a bodily organ, structure, or part) visualizer , visualiser n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
visualize verb picture, imagine, think about, envisage, contemplate, conceive of, see in the mind's eye, conjure up a mental picture of He could not visualize her as a child. Translations visualize [ˈvɪzjʊəlaɪz] VT 1. (= imagine) → imaginarse he tried to visualize the scene → intentó imaginarse la escena he could not visualize her as old → no podía hacerse una idea de ella or no podía imaginársela de mayor she visualized him working at his desk → se lo imaginó trabajando en su mesa try to visualize yourself sitting calmly on a plane → imagínate que vas tranquilamente sentado en un avión 2. (= call to mind) [+ person, sb's face] → recordar he found it difficult to visualize her now → ahora le resultaba difícil recordarla 3. (= foresee) → prever we do not visualize any great change → no prevemos ningún cambio de importancia that is not how we visualized it → eso no corresponde a lo que nosotros preveíamos visualize [ˈvɪʒuəlaɪz ˈvɪzjuəlaɪz] visualise (British) vt (= have a visual image of) [+ face, image] → visualiser He found he could visualise her face quite clearly → Il s'aperçut qu'il pouvait visualiser son visage assez clairement. to visualize how → visualiser comment to visualize o.s. → se visualiser visualize vt (= foresee) → erwarten; we do not visualize many changes → wir rechnen nicht mit großen Veränderungen; he visualizes some changes (= intends) → er hat einige Veränderungen im Auge; that’s not how I’d visualized things → so hatte ich mir das nicht vorgestellt visualize [ˈvɪzjʊəˌlaɪz] vt (imagine) → immaginare, immaginarsi; (foresee) → prevedere to visualize sb doing sth → immaginare qn che fa qc visualize [ˈvɪzjʊəˌlaɪz] vt (imagine) → immaginare, immaginarsi; (foresee) → prevedere to visualize sb doing sth → immaginare qn che fa qc How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Almost, it seemed, she could visualize the women who had kept their pretties and their family homespun in its drawers--the women of those wandering generations who were grandmothers and greater great grandmothers of her own mother. I can visualize the entire scene--the apelike Grimaldi men huddled in their filthy caves; the huge pterodactyls soaring through the heavy air upon their bat-like wings; the mighty dinosaurs moving their clumsy hulks beneath the dark shadows of preglacial forests--the dragons which we considered myths until science taught us that they were the true recollections of the first man, handed down through countless ages by word of mouth from father to son out of the unrecorded dawn of humanity. Her voice trembled again as she spoke the last two words, and it was possibly this that caused Mr Pickering to visualize Percy as a sort of little Lord Fauntleroy, his favourite character in English literature. |
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