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visualise

Visualize \Vis"u*al*ize\, v. t.

  1. To make visual, or visible. [Written also visualise.]

  2. to see in the imagination; to form a mental image of.

    No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly visualize them.
    --Lubbock.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
visualise

chiefly British English spelling of visualize. For suffix, see -ize. Related: Visualised; visualising; visualisation.\n

Wiktionary
visualise

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To (l en envisage), or form a mental picture (of something). 2 (context transitive English) To make (something) (l en visible).

WordNet
visualise
  1. v. view the outline of by means of an X-ray; "The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver" [syn: visualize]

  2. for a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract; "Mathematicians often visualize" [syn: visualize]

  3. 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, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]

  4. make visible; "With this machine, ultrasound can be visualized" [syn: visualize]

Usage examples of "visualise".

As I studied the map over the doors, I tried to visualise the destination boards on the buses which passed near my home.

Lundren visualised the screening machines, descendants of the ancient and clumsy electroencephalographs, but vastly refined.

He turned his back to the approaching men, fumbling hi his overtrousers, bending his head, visualising the picture he had taken.

Somehow he could not help but visualise those same hands holding a very sharp, thin knife Chorl shuddered, and his eyes flew without volition to his nephew.

A fault of his more serious efforts is that diffuseness and long-windedness which results from an excessively elaborate attempt, under the handicap of a somewhat bald and journalistic style devoid of intrinsic magic, colour, and vitality, to visualise precise sensations and nuances of uncanny suggestion.

And I'd have to speak to the Kent boys about their guarantee that their clearview screen wouldn't mist up under any conditions, but maybe that wasn't fair, maybe they'd never visualised conditions like this.

Each person can make a few very rough stitches, endowing each with a spoken hope or prayer for the sick person and visualising the stitches filled with light.

He could visualise the patterned patrol of his fingers on the fretboard of the mandolin, he could hear the disciplined notes ringing from the treble, singing the praise of Pelagia as they also portrayed her wrath and her resistance.

But most of all she longed to be transported back to the days of La Scale by hearing Torna a Surriento', the favourite song of the club and the one they would sing the most, and she would close her eyes in the most blissful state of melancholy as she heard its melody and visualised the boys outside under the olive, scarcely aware of the melodrama of their gestures as they poured their hearts and the full lust of their voices into the grippingly beautiful mordants and gracenotes of the final phrase, after which they would sit in a moment of nostalgic silence before sighing, shaking their heads, and wiping the tears from their eyes with their sleeves.

Once its mode of communication was understood, Chimborazo's immaterialism and transcendent qualities would set humankind upon a fresher and more vital path than could at present be visualised.

That gentle rhythmic breathing, perfectly but unconsciously timed from long practice, was the way of the Raja Yoga, which he had learned when young, and all the time he visualised himself, the others, the whole room as blue—.

But she was a tall ship, and I knew her well enough to visualise her lines and compare her to the ranks of ramrods, dirt-trackers and p-shifters which were parked closer to the tower.

Send your message of healing or visualised golden light, then blow out the candles deosil, sending the energies to where they are needed.

In less formal practices, either archangels or pillars of light may be visualised in the corners of the room to offer protection at a time when a person is opening then-psyche to the cosmos, to keep out all negativity, earthly or otherwise.

Phaid had imagined many ways in which he might meet his end, but he'd never visualised anything so horribly impersonal.