1. visualize(v = verb.creation) envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise - 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"
is one way to conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine
Derived forms noun visualization1, noun visualizer1
Sample sentences:
Did he visualize his major works over a short period of time?
2. visualize(v = verb.perception) visualise - view the outline of by means of an X-ray; "The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver"
is one way to catch, see, take in, view, watch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
3. visualize(v = verb.creation) visualise - form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract; "Mathematicians often visualize"
is one way to conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
4. visualize(v = verb.change) visualise - make visible; "With this machine, ultrasound can be visualized"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
1. To make visual, or visible. [1913 Webster]
2. to see in the imagination; to form a mental image of. [1913 Webster]
"No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly visualize them." [1913 Webster]
To form a mental image of something not present before the eye at the time. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
visualize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 make visible esp. to one's mind (a thing not visible to the eye).
2 make visible to the eye.
Derivative:
visualizable adj. visualization n.
VB imagine, fancy, conceive, idealize, realize, dream, dream of, dream up, give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate, improvise, strike out something new, set one's wits to work, strain one's invention, crack one's invention, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains, excogitate, brainstorm, give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy, indulge in reverie, visualize, envision, conjure up a vision, fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself, vorstellen, float in the mind, suggest itself.