visualize

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++vi·su·al·ize (also visualise British English) /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪz/ AWL verb [transitive] IMAGINEto form a picture of someone or something in your mind 设想，想象 SYN imagine I tried to visualize the house while he was describing it. 我一边听他描述，一边想象那房子的样子。visualize somebody doing something Somehow I can’t visualize myself staying with this company for much longer. 不知为什么，我想象不出自己还会在这家公司待很久。visualize how/what etc It’s hard to visualize how these tiles will look in our bathroom. 很难想象这些瓷砖铺在我们浴室里会是什么样子。► see thesaurus at imagine —visualization /ˌvɪʒuəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ -lə-/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

visualize• To write a scene is to visualize.• An architect can look at a drawing and visualize a three-dimensional shape.• While many still visualize cruises as sedentary, today they are far from that.• I could visualize him in one of Mr Wells's romantic fantasies.• She visualized it as a movie.• How dare I visualize myself like them?• David could still visualize Polly, even though he had not seen her for ten years.• I tried to visualize the house as he described it.• He closed his eyes, trying to visualize where he had put his watch.visualize how/what etc• He tried to visualize what he would have done with them.• It taxes the minds of determined embryologists to try and visualize what is going on.• It is quite entertaining to attempt to visualize what the intermediates may have looked like.

vi·su·al·ize verbChineseSyllable

form of or to something a someone Corpus picture

visualize
vi‧su‧al‧ize AC

(also visualise British English) /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪz/ verb [transitive]
to form a picture of someone or something in your mind
SYN imagine:

I tried to visualize the house while he was describing it.
visualize somebody doing something

Somehow I can’t visualize myself staying with this company for much longer.
visualize how/what etc

It’s hard to visualize how these tiles will look in our bathroom.
—visualization /ˌvɪʒuəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ -lə-/ noun [uncountable]

THESAURUS

   ▪ imagine to form a picture or idea in your mind about what something might be like: When I think of Honolulu, I imagine long white beaches and palm trees. | I can’t really imagine being a millionaire.
   ▪ visualize to form a picture of someone or something in your mind, especially something that is definitely going to happen or exist in the future: Anna visualized meeting Greg again at the airport. | The finished house may be hard to visualize.
   ▪ picture to form a clear picture of something or someone in your mind: I can still picture my father, even though he died a long time ago. | The town was just how she had pictured it from his description.
   ▪ envisage /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/ especially British English, envision to imagine something as possible or likely to happen in the future: How do you envisage your career developing over the next ten years? | They had envisioned the creation of a single armed force, small but efficient.
   ▪ conceive of something formal to imagine a situation, especially one that is difficult to imagine: For many people, music is so important that they cannot conceive of life without it.
   ▪ fantasize to imagine something exciting that you would like to happen, but that is very unlikely to happen: I used to fantasize about becoming a film star.
   ▪ daydream to imagine pleasant things, so that you forget where you are and what you should be doing: Mark began to daydream, and didn’t even hear the teacher’s question.
   ▪ hallucinate to imagine that you are seeing things that are not really there, especially because you are ill or have taken drugs: The drug that can cause some people to hallucinate. | When I saw the walls moving, I thought I must be hallucinating.

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