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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vision
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
20/20 vision
a nightmare vision (=a very bad situation that might happen)
▪ The book gives us a nightmare vision of a family destroyed by one man's secrets.
binocular vision
breadth of vision
▪ a politician known for his breadth of vision
clarity of vision/purpose/thought etc
▪ Churchill’s clarity of vision impressed all who knew him.
cloud sb’s judgement/mind/vision etc
▪ Don’t let your personal feelings cloud your judgement.
▪ Fear had clouded his vision.
double vision
line of vision (=the direction I was looking in)
▪ A boat came into my line of vision.
stereoscopic vision
▪ stereoscopic vision
tunnel vision
▪ I’ve got tunnel vision when it comes to what I want to do.
vision...blurred
▪ His vision was blurred.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
binocular
▪ But their range of binocular vision is only about 30°.
▪ Ben possessed the kind of binocular vision I needed so badly.
▪ Ducks, too, have 360° vision, with eyes on the sides of their heads, but with limited binocular vision.
▪ For example owls and other predatory birds such as buzzards have binocular vision and acute hearing although they have a poor sense of smell.
▪ It has binocular vision for locating its prey and now rests motionless, waiting for the potential victim to come closer.
▪ The fish possesses a further adaptation to enhance its accuracy: binocular vision.
▪ Although it occurs among mammals and birds, few other fish possess binocular vision.
clear
▪ Namely, clear vision for the driver, whatever the conditions.
▪ But the history of New York development shows how haphazard such controls can be if there is no such clear vision.
▪ That view may be interpreted as a piece of self-delusion, or as a clear vision.
▪ But Welch demystified it by basing it on a clear, well-articulated vision and the right principles.
▪ My brain is filled full of vague images, but no clear vision of one necessary thing.
▪ They are able to do this be-cause they start out with a clear vision of where they want to go.
▪ The ring is virtually invisible around the central cornea which is the critical area for clear vision.
▪ Put simply, polarisation works like a venetian blind to cut reflection from above and below yet still allow clear vision.
defective
▪ These measures will show the distance at which the child with defective vision can be expected to discriminate visually presented material.
▪ In short, nearly one in three possessed physical defects, a figure which took no account of dental problems or defective vision.
▪ Should children with defective vision be resting their eyes?
▪ Small print, dense layout, footnotes and detailed diagrams can be very demanding for some pupils with defective vision.
▪ The ultimate aim must be to help pupils with defective vision to use as much standard material as possible in common with their classmates.
different
▪ The three Piper operas represent a different vision of musical dramaturgy to the rest of the Britten canon.
▪ Forgotten, perhaps, in this mini building boom, is a different vision.
▪ It was only a little local wrangle. Different strategic visions of the club and that sort of thing.
▪ But as in Las Vegas, the players are provided a different vision.
▪ A different vision of the company might draw upon the democratic ideal which inspires the relation of the citizen to the state.
▪ It is a case of same view, slightly different vision.
double
▪ Repeat prescription 16. Double vision 17.
▪ He can walk and his speech is not affected, but he suffers from poor concentration and intermittent double vision.
▪ Dizziness with blurred or double vision.
▪ Eyes Blurred vision, double vision, sensitivity to bright lights.
▪ Shakespeare's early poems sketch that double vision and later many of his heroes are plagued by it.
▪ The operation left Keith profoundly disabled, he's deaf, he walks with difficulty and suffers double vision.
▪ This double vision of the woman-goddess is said to be the mainspring of Shakespeare's tragedies.
▪ If the two eyes are not directed at the same object, double vision results.
grand
▪ The cap, then, falls within an overall grand vision of chanciness and risk.
▪ The pride, excitement, and extraordinary accomplishments Byrd refers to came in response to what was obviously a grand vision.
▪ Rank was a businessman who pursued a grander vision than Isidore Ostrer or John Maxwell had ever done.
▪ The grand vision of the position of Canterbury was reinforced by anxieties such as these.
new
▪ But by the middle of the twenties, when Ramsey began to study the matter, a new vision appeared.
▪ If you enlist them effectively these people will make extraordinary efforts to advance new visions and possibilities.
▪ Before November, the president may proclaim a new vision of government for a new age.
▪ The new monistic vision demands a different aesthetic expression from that appropriate to the dualistic vision.
▪ In his 1986 State of the City address, he summed up his new vision.
▪ This new vision of life is in marked contrast to the blindness and insensitivity of self-interest and pride.
▪ Many Democratic veterans believe the new liberal vision must necessarily include some government cutting.
normal
▪ We need additional, converging, evidence to show that the subcortical visual system contributes to normal vision.
▪ Without turning my head, I see them as clearly as though in my normal field of vision.
▪ This is recorded as normal vision.
▪ This two-stage account of his neglect is in accordance with recent two-stage characterizations of normal vision.
original
▪ Daimler will either be a monument to his original vision, or just another lame duck.
▪ Rice had a powerful and original vision, and the charisma to instill that vision in others.
▪ A major departure from his original vision was the rejection of a seven year course - but other concepts were accepted.
▪ They are always people with an original vision.
▪ Like the center of a dying fire, the Great Plains held that original vision longest.
▪ He or she is a pragmatic dreamer, a person with an original but attainable vision.
peripheral
▪ This allows them to maintain the same panoramic peripheral vision over a wide range of light levels.
▪ I held Ellie in my peripheral vision, watching her long neck and the swell of her chest from across the room.
▪ I was taking it slowly when I caught a flash of red on the edge of my peripheral vision.
▪ The sailor must have caught my sudden motion in his peripheral vision: he looked up suddenly, and dimensions shifted again.
▪ I made do with peripheral vision, which, after all, is the next best thing.
▪ Use your peripheral vision widely when moving from place to place.
▪ Tracers from our own guns flowed in my peripheral vision.
poor
▪ Justice for the Poor is a vision which can unite us all.
▪ The syndrome usually causes poor vision as well.
▪ This is the easy part, proving difficult only for those with unsteady hands, poor vision or failure to comprehend.
▪ A bird would need extremely poor vision to be fooled by it.
▪ Vague or inexact directions can be mystifying for pupils with poor vision.
▪ The letters should be sufficiently large and should be placed soas to cater for patients with poor vision.
▪ Perhaps each species of bird or monkey has poor vision and latches on to just one limited aspect of an insect.
powerful
▪ Basques, too, had a powerful vision of their own different identity and special history.
▪ Rice had a powerful and original vision, and the charisma to instill that vision in others.
▪ New organization designs can portray powerful visions to guide people to work together in new ways needed to deliver performance and change.
▪ A powerful enough vision can transform what would otherwise be loss and drudgery into sacrifice.
▪ Indeed, that event more than any other produced a powerful vision for Black &038; White.
■ NOUN
night
▪ I had killed the lights and my night vision was well adjusted when he arrived.
▪ Red lamps at night do not interrupt your night vision, it is true.
▪ Car headlamps are a different matter: they wreck night vision immediately.
▪ It was dark and my night vision was less than special.
▪ He decided to launch his attack right away, while the other man's night vision was still impaired.
▪ At night agents wear special night vision goggles.
▪ Cats have good night vision but can't see colour very well.
▪ I crept through the brush as only a boy with bad night vision can.
tunnel
▪ Something not unlike tunnel vision ensues in the case of black kids.
▪ Each group has its insular concerns and each is locked within the tunnel vision of its own experience and tangible self-interest.
▪ I just looked straight down the track, set my tunnel vision and climbed into my blocks.
▪ Such proposals are typical of the tunnel vision that has characterized most of our economic models.
▪ And many, surely, that our human tunnel vision is unable to perceive.
▪ But such thinking can produce temporal tunnel vision.
▪ Both had been disgracefully neglected till then. Tunnel vision and mutual incomprehension were natural reactions.
▪ I had three children, a home to run ... and tunnel vision as far as the Spencers were concerned.
■ VERB
blur
▪ She felt the anguished tears of motherhood blur her vision and blinked them away.
▪ After a few minutes of running through drills, the girls began to complain of headaches and blurred vision.
▪ Tears blurred her vision as she swung out, hammering on the horn.
▪ Frank slid into second base, wound up with blurred vision and missed the rest of the year.
▪ Instead of which she found herself having to blink away the sting of tears that blurred her vision.
▪ Sufferers also complain of headaches, intermittent blurred vision and vision sluggishness.
cloud
▪ He told me that there are good people about and not to let this incident cloud my vision.
▪ He had perhaps allowed hatred of the Hohenstaufer to cloud his vision.
▪ If the sheer quantity of information about 1992 is clouding your vision, look no further for the silver lining.
create
▪ In most cases, however, it would appear that leader and follower participate together in creating the vision.
▪ In yet other settings it means creating a schoolwide vision for a school in transition, as at Thayer.
▪ Overall perspective Linked to the notion of creating a vision is connecting that vision to the overall perspective of the organisation.
▪ My thanks to her and all the other women who have had the courage to create alternative visions.
▪ What we must do is to create the greatest visions of our lives and live them.
▪ The single defining quality of leaders is the capacity to create and realize a vision.
▪ Yet whenever they meet, they repeatedly fail to create the vision and the strategy they desire.
offer
▪ You need to offer a vision of what government can do to help.
share
▪ We share the same liberating visions and commitments as our biblical foremothers.
▪ Visualize what the company should be like, and share that vision.
▪ Thursday Met the lady who lives at the top of our road who shared the vision on Sunday night.
▪ Moreover his senior colleagues shared his vision for change in his division and in Southwest as a whole.
▪ The biggest difficulty has been sharing my vision with others.
▪ A fellow New Democrat, Gore shared the Clinton vision.
▪ It's the difference between putting across a point of view, and sharing a vision.
▪ The same shared vision guides us today.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
field of vision/view
▪ His head would explode, and his field of vision would contract until he was almost blind.
▪ It will be appreciated that the precise nature of the degree or defect in acuity or field of vision is highly individual.
▪ Mrs LaRue smiled and moved away from my field of vision.
▪ Some evidence for this point of view is given under validation - sensitivity across the field of view.
▪ The serious aerial photographer will be looking for adjustment through vertical and horizontal axes so that the field of view is precise.
▪ With astonishment, I saw distinct black specks dancing in the field of view.
▪ With increased power, the field of view becomes smaller, and with increased aperture the binoculars become heavier.
▪ Without turning my head, I see them as clearly as though in my normal field of vision.
peripheral vision
▪ I held Ellie in my peripheral vision, watching her long neck and the swell of her chest from across the room.
▪ I made do with peripheral vision, which, after all, is the next best thing.
▪ I was taking it slowly when I caught a flash of red on the edge of my peripheral vision.
▪ The sailor must have caught my sudden motion in his peripheral vision: he looked up suddenly, and dimensions shifted again.
▪ This allows them to maintain the same panoramic peripheral vision over a wide range of light levels.
▪ Tracers from our own guns flowed in my peripheral vision.
▪ Use your peripheral vision widely when moving from place to place.
twenty-twenty vision
▪ I hope that the account that follows will seem straight forward-but it is written with the twenty-twenty vision of hindsight.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As Martha grew older, her vision began to fail.
▪ Bernadette had a vision in which the Virgin Mary appeared before her.
▪ He complained that the new lenses gave him double vision and headaches.
▪ In her vision, Joan of Arc saw an angel telling her to go and fight for France.
▪ Many people claim to have had visions while praying at Lourdes.
▪ My aunt still has some vision in her left eye - she can make out colours and shapes.
▪ Three days before she died, Rita was blessed with a vision of Our Lord.
▪ Until she was eighteen she had 20-20 vision - now she has to wear glasses.
▪ When he woke up he had a splitting headache and his vision was blurred.
▪ When I have a migraine, I can't stand up without vomiting and my vision is distorted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the history of New York development shows how haphazard such controls can be if there is no such clear vision.
▪ Contact lenses sometimes give better visual acuity in these cases and the field of vision is nearly always improved.
▪ If your vision proves true, he said, I will be very rich.
▪ Reporters and producers have a public duty to speak out if their vision of truth is suppressed by government appointees.
▪ The Keeper of the Shrine of Asuryan plucked out his eyes but even this did not stop the terrible visions.
▪ This vision imposes severe social conditions, however.
▪ Through their photography Marcy and Muybridge opened up to vision things that the human eye could not perceive.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vision

Vision \Vi"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Visioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Visioning.] To see in a vision; to dream.

For them no visioned terrors daunt, Their nights no fancied specters haunt.
--Sir W. Scott.

Vision

Vision \Vi"sion\, n. [OE. visioun, F. vision, fr. L. visio, from videre, visum, to see: akin to Gr. ? to see, ? I know, and E. wit. See Wit, v., and cf. Advice, Clairvoyant, Envy, Evident, Provide, Revise, Survey, View, Visage, Visit.]

  1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

    Faith here is turned into vision there.
    --Hammond.

  2. (Physiol.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.

  3. That which is seen; an object of sight.
    --Shak.

  4. Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.

    The baseless fabric of this vision.
    --Shak.

    No dreams, but visions strange.
    --Sir P. Sidney.

  5. Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
    --Locke.

    Arc of vision (Astron.), the arc which measures the least distance from the sun at which, when the sun is below the horizon, a star or planet emerging from his rays becomes visible.

    Beatific vision (Theol.), the immediate sight of God in heaven.

    Direct vision (Opt.), vision when the image of the object falls directly on the yellow spot (see under Yellow); also, vision by means of rays which are not deviated from their original direction.

    Field of vision, field of view. See under Field.

    Indirect vision (Opt.), vision when the rays of light from an object fall upon the peripheral parts of the retina.

    Reflected vision, or Refracted vision, vision by rays reflected from mirrors, or refracted by lenses or prisms, respectively.

    Vision purple. (Physiol.) See Visual purple, under Visual.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vision

c.1300, "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural," from Anglo-French visioun, Old French vision "presence, sight; view, look, appearance; dream, supernatural sight" (12c.), from Latin visionem (nominative visio) "act of seeing, sight, thing seen," noun of action from past participle stem of videre "to see."\n

\nThis is from the productive PIE root *weid- "to know, to see" (cognates: Sanskrit veda "I know;" Avestan vaeda "I know;" Greek oida, Doric woida "I know," idein "to see;" Old Irish fis "vision," find "white," i.e. "clearly seen," fiuss "knowledge;" Welsh gwyn, Gaulish vindos, Breton gwenn "white;" Gothic, Old Swedish, Old English witan "to know;" Gothic weitan "to see;" English wise, German wissen "to know;" Lithuanian vysti "to see;" Bulgarian vidya "I see;" Polish widzieć "to see," wiedzieć "to know;" Russian videt' "to see," vest' "news," Old Russian vedat' "to know").\n

\nThe meaning "sense of sight" is first recorded late 15c. Meaning "statesman-like foresight, political sagacity" is attested from 1926.

Wiktionary
vision

n. 1 (label en uncountable) The sense or ability of sight. 2 Something seen; an object perceived visually. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To imagine something as if it were to be true. 2 (context transitive English) To provide with a vision.

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WordNet
vision

  1. n. a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death"

  2. the ability to see; the faculty of vision [syn: sight, visual sense, visual modality]

  3. the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" [syn: visual sensation]

  4. the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" [syn: imagination, imaginativeness]

  5. a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"

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Wikipedia
Vision (spirituality)

A vision is something seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy, especially a supernatural appearance that usually conveys a revelation. Visions generally have more clarity than dreams, but traditionally fewer psychological connotations. Visions are known to emerge from spiritual traditions and could provide a lens into human nature and reality. Prophecy is often associated with visions.

In simple words, it is a religious experience in which the experience can be seen and hence it is called a vision.

Vision (Timely Comics)
This article is on the original 1940s Vision. For the modern-day comic-book character, see Vision (Marvel Comics)

The Vision (Aarkus) is an American fictional comic book superhero who appeared in comic books published by Marvel Comics during the Golden Age of comic books. Created by the writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Marvel Mystery Comics #13 (Nov. 1940), published by Marvel predecessor Timely Comics.

Vision (comics)

Vision, in comics, may refer to:

  • Vision (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics android and member of the Avengers
  • Vision (Timely Comics), a Golden Age superhero and alien law enforcer
Vision (EP)

Vision is the first EP by Swedish melodic punk rock band No Fun at All, released on July 7, 1993. The EP's style is more hardcore than its followup No Straight Angles and other releases.

Originally, Vision was meant to be a 'hope-we-can-sell-all-of-them' release with an initial pressing of a thousand copies. The EP has since gone on to sell over 25,000 copies.

Vision (Marvel Comics)

Vision is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first Vision was an alien created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby who first appeared in Marvel Mystery Comics #13 (November 1940). The second Vision is an android and a member of the Avengers who first appeared in The Avengers #57 (October 1968) by Roy Thomas, Stan Lee and John Buscema. The third Vision was the time traveler previously known as Iron Lad, who was fused with the operating system of the second Vision. The second Vision was portrayed by Paul Bettany in the 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron; he reprised the role in the 2016 film Captain America: Civil War.

Vision (Italian think tank)

Vision is an independent, non-profit think tank based in Rome, Italy. Its main efforts are "dedicated to strategic thinking on the transformations triggered by technologies and globalisation." Research and analysis are conducted on public and social policies, focusing on the principles of democracy, open society and social reform. In addition to policy research and strategic analyses, one of Vision's primary aims is the promotion of open dialogue and cooperation between all sectors of society.

Vision is not aligned to any political party in Italy and the organisation has described itself as a non-partisan group.

Among the Visionaires: Francesco Grillo, Gianfilippo Emma, Flavius Stan, Asif Parvez, Oscar Pasquali, Valeria Sirabella.

Among the projects conducted by Vision in the last years, the most important ones are:

  • Italian and European Universities in the global market of Innovation: reforms and triggers of change

Which future for Italian and European Universities? An international conference to discuss triggers of change within the university system: merits and limits of rankings and power of internationalization.

  • The Politics and Economics of happiness

The project deals with the issue of measuring well being in modern societies. Among the questions we tried to address: Who can define what happiness is? Is “progress” still a valid notion towards which science and economy should be oriented?

  • Kyoto of the Cities

The scope of the project is to explore the possibility of engaging major cities in an international agreement on environment - related goals and explore strategies for CO2 emissions in housing, waste management and urban transportation.

Vision

Vision or The Vision may refer to:

  • In business, vision is foresight - the capacity to envisage future market trends and plan accordingly
  • Goal, a desired result
    • Vision statement
Vision (game engine)

Vision is a multi-platform 3D game engine that was first launched in 2003 by the Germany-based middleware developer, Trinigy. Now in its eighth version, the Vision Engine is currently available for Microsoft Windows ( DX9, DX10, DX11), Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and Wii U, iOS, Android, Sony's PlayStation Vita, and most major browsers ( IE6 and up, Firefox 2.0 and up, Google Chrome, Opera 9 and up).

Trinigy and its Vision Engine was acquired by Havok in 2011.

Vision (Shankar album)

Vision is an album by Indian violinist L. Shankar, featuring Jan Garbarek and Palle Mikkelborg. It was released on the ECM label in 1983.

Vision (festival)

Vision is the annual national-level technical symposium of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Anna University, Chennai. It was started in 1997 to promote technology and entrepreneurship in India. Vision 2013 was held April 10–12, 2013.

Vision (IRC)

Vision is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for BeOS.

Vision is a FOSS, and its source code is distributed and developed under the Mozilla Public License. The community is encouraged to contribute to the project.

Vision is the main IRC application in Haiku and IRC channels contribute the most in the development of Haiku. Development Discussions and other queries are discussed in these channels. Vision is bundled with Haiku and the Haiku version is set up in such a way that it automatically connects to the development channel when executed.

Vision (Alpha Blondy album)

Vision is a 2011 reggae album by the Ivorian artist Alpha Blondy.

Vision (magazine)

Vision magazine is a quarterly magazine published by Falcon and Associates, a strategic advisory concern working on behalf of the Dubai government. The magazine was first published in December 2010. The quarterly provides insights about business, music, culture, life and sports in the Emirate

Published by Falcon and Associates, the Vision brand portfolio comprises a quarterly print magazine, a digital edition for iPad and desktop and the vision.ae website, all published in English. A Chinese print magazine and website are also available, both in Mandarin.

Vision magazine is the second largest audited publication in the UAE with a BPA* audited figure of 61,986 copies. Its contributors include leading journalists and thought leaders from across the world. Previous cover stars have included Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Pelé and Kevin Spacey.

The brand’s print editions are distributed in airline lounges in all major cities, on board key international airlines, at exhibitions and conferences and in all Jumeirah Group properties around the world.

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Usage examples of "vision".

Panting, Abrim let his muscles go slack, black spots crowding the edge of his vision.

It matters not whether he is professional or amateur, so he is untouched by academicism and has not done so much reading or writing as to impair his mental digestion and his clarity of vision.

She tried to ignore the dizzying perspective plucking at her peripheral vision over the low sides of the pod and concentrated instead on the stress and acceleration vectors graphically represented on her screen.

At the edge of the field of vision, the Doppler telemeter and accelerometer spat out their little red numbers so rapidly that it was difficult to read the indicated speed.

His field of vision contracted until it embraced only the clock and the accelerometer, fifteen g, and four hundred and eighty seconds to go.

Then I suffered a vision of Acer Laidlaw piloting Eightball back to Roderick Station with a hold full of atoms that had once been mine, and gritted my teeth so hard I cracked a filling.

The world that you see in dim light is similar to the world of the achromat, that rare person who has no color vision at all.

Deaf people have always been remarkable for their acuteness of vision, touch, and smell.

Their substitutes for adaptability can sustain them only in the limited enclaves of civilization, not in the wide open spaces of the desert, or in the terrifying futures Paul opens himself to in his visions.

Who, soothed to false repose by the fanning plumes above And the music-stirring motion of its soft and busy feet, Dream visions of aereal joy, and call the monster, Love, And wake, and find the shadow Pain, as he whom now we greet.

Then the old woman rendring out like sighes, began to speake in this sort : My daughter take a good heart unto you, and bee not afeared at feigned and strange visions and dreams, for as the visions of the day are accounted false and untrue, so the visions of the night doe often change contrary.

The occupiers and their agenda hold pride of place in most accounts, whereas the vanquished country itself is located in the postwar context of a world falling into antagonistic Cold War camps and discussed in terms of a vision of that moment which was distinctly American.

Portugal and Holland were too small to cherish visions of European aggrandizement, and they naturally sought an outlet in Asia and Africa for their energies.

As often as he is pressed by the demands of the Koreish, he involves himself in the obscure boast of vision and prophecy, appeals to the internal proofs of his doctrine, and shields himself behind the providence of God, who refuses those signs and wonders that would depreciate the merit of faith, and aggravate the guilt of infidelity.

He does not see the different plants like an agriculturalist, nor the medicinal roots like a physician, but everything that he sees with his material eyes he secretly contemplates in his mind through spiritual vision.