Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Visualize \Vis"u*al*ize\, v. t.
To make visual, or visible. [Written also visualise.]
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to see in the imagination; to form a mental image of.
No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly visualize them.
--Lubbock.
Visualize \Vis"u*al*ize\, v. i. To form a mental image of something not present before the eye at the time.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817, first attested in, and perhaps coined by, Coleridge ("Biographia Literaria"); see visual + -ize. Related: Visualized; visualizing.
Wiktionary
vb. (context American spelling English) (alternative spelling of visualise English)
WordNet
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: visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]
view the outline of by means of an X-ray; "The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver" [syn: visualise]
for a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract; "Mathematicians often visualize" [syn: visualise]
make visible; "With this machine, ultrasound can be visualized" [syn: visualise]
Wikipedia
Visualize is a video release by Def Leppard. A compilation of promo videos, interviews, and concert footage. On DVD, it is bundled with Video Archive. It won a 1993 Metal Edge Readers' Choice Award for "Best Home Video."
Usage examples of "visualize".
It is easy to visualize the acetylcholine as coating the membrane and altering its properties.
Placing both hands on the sheet, he visualized the artistry he wanted on the certificate.
If I close my eyes, I can easily visualize the movement of the Barracuda through the water.
I visualized the basto as an enormous boar with horns, or a buffalo with the jaws and teeth of a carnivore, and judged that its twelve hundred pounds of weight would render it a most formidable beast.
She closed her eyes and visualized the individual components of the bras Ballantyne currently manufactured.
Himself, Sir Gerald Tarrant no less, master of a Secret Service department, huddled in that wardrobe with his bloody bowler and brolly, sweating cobs, visualizing ghastly consequences.
But he was already beginning to visualize into hypnogogic revery and sleep was coming.
With fresh anguish she visualized her father on his haunches before the petunias, the pansies he loved so much.
But he could not even visualize this country as it must have been in pluvial times.
He visualized erosion by the sting of saltating sand grains, driven by the wind.
Reminded by the birth date in the passport that he had now reached the age of forty, Sanders tried to visualize himself ten years ahead, but already the latent elements that had emerged in his face during the previous years seemed to have lost momentum.
The pilots could visualize the plane as it sped toward the sea, gaining speed, reaching for the go-no-go point.
I wove an entire network of those connections, a kind of visualized rope ladder over the gorge of the two people in my life I still feared and hated most: Jack Speight and Tony Price.
Visualizing Barvale as a hidden crime master, there was good reason why Pointer Trame, the actual field general, should retain these important documents.
I exhaled loudly and squeezed my eyes shut, trying not to visualize the thirty-one unreturned phone calls as thirty-one crooked tombstones in snow.