Visualize

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Visualize \Vis"u*al*ize\, v. t.
     1. To make visual, or visible. [Written also {visualise}.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. to see in the imagination; to form a mental image of.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]


  
              No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly
              visualize them.                       --Lubbock.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Visualize \Vis"u*al*ize\, v. i.
     To form a mental image of something not present before the
     eye at the time.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  visualize
       v 1: 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}]
       2: view the outline of by means of an X-ray; "The radiologist
          can visualize the cancerous liver" [syn: {visualise}]
       3: for a mental picture of something that is invisible or
          abstract; "Mathematicians often visualize" [syn: {visualise}]
       4: make visible; "With this machine, ultrasound can be
          visualized" [syn: {visualise}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "visualize":
     anticipate, apprehend, bring to mind, call to mind, call up,
     conceive, conjure up, contemplate, divine, envisage, envision,
     fancy, feature, foreknow, image, imagine, just see, look upon,
     objectify, picture, prevision, realize, regard, represent, see,
     summon up, view, vision