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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
envision
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He envisions a day when every household will have access to the Internet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Developing confidence, people handling and positive personality, seeking opportunities and envisioning.
▪ Kids, who are circumstantial outsiders, tend to identify with such creatures and envision them as their vengeful protectors.
▪ Moreover, funding organizations may be less inclined to support projects that envision long periods of field research.
▪ Puype said he could envision going straight from the Florida Derby to the Kentucky Derby.
▪ What they envision is nothing short of a new corporate structure, in which accounting and other functions are outsourced.
▪ When I first tried to envision this tiny woman trying to hold off a mob of angry right-wingers, I almost laughed.
▪ You can envision graphic sound charging around like square pixels on a vintage Atari video game.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
envision

1914, from en- (1) "make, put in" + vision (n.). Related: Envisioned; envisioning. Earlier (1827) is envision'd in sense "endowed with vision."

Wiktionary
envision

vb. (context transitive English) To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.

WordNet
envision
  1. v. 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" [syn: visualize, visualise, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]

  2. picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President" [syn: foresee]

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Envision

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Usage examples of "envision".

And think about it: Jonas wanted her voluntarily, which meant that he either had no wish to drag her into the alembic with him or, more likely, he could not envision the necessity.

It kept Romans and outlanders from ever having the complete and amicable integration that the king had envisioned for his diverse peoples.

Because we previously envisioned all matter particles and all force particles to be pointlike objects with literally no spatial extent, we were obligated to consider properties of the universe on arbitrarily short distance scales.

So did he envision himself counseling and educating Weed Atman, a dialogue in which together they might explore American realities in the light of this low-hanging Eastern lamp but Weed, much to his dismay, turned out to be all but silent.

All mothers-to-be daydream about life with their babies, but few envision the consuming nature of full-time motherhood.

I imagined, for a moment, that I had the powers of a cetic and that I could see the wrinkled, ancient Soli through the taut olive skin of his new body, in the same manner one envisions a fireflower drying to a brittle black, or the skull of death beneath the pink flesh of a newborn baby boy.

It was if he climbed those handholds he had envisioned, clambering from the pit toward the hope of light, driven by hope and fear together to ignore the pain and grip where no grip was possible, only the frail strength of himself and his own hope, which was no less fear.

As envisioned by Brooks and implemented by the FBI with his assistance, VICAP is a nationwide data information center designed to collect, collate, and analyze specific crimes of violence.

Hydrogen Economy concept envisions nuclear power plants that simultaneously desalt water for drinking and electrolyze water for its hydrogen-oxygen fuel content.

In the Persian Zoroastrian eschatological myth, which appears to have been the first in which such a prospect was seriously envisioned, the day of the great transformation was to be in the nature of a cosmic crisis, when the laws of nature would cease to operate and an eviternity of no time, no change, no life as we know life then come into being.

Aahz and Frumple, and even the Imps, had referred to this phenomenon, I had never actually sat back and tried to envision it.

But I must tell you that it is extremely difficult to envision a hairdresser as a cold-blooded murderer-for-hire.

Whatever happens during the Final Transcendence, I know my segment of the world-soul will pay close attention to what Helion envisions!

All that day, as I sat watching my animals, I tried to convince myself that marriage might not be so bad, and envisioned myself living with Jamah, the way my mother and father lived together.

A small hope flickered that maybe my father would be waiting with Jamah, and I envisioned his smooth handsome face.