visualize
verb[T]
(UKusuallyvisualise)uk/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl.aɪz/us/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl.aɪz/toformapictureof someone or something inyourmind, inordertoimagineorrememberthem:
I was sosurprisedwhen heturnedup - I'd visualized someone mucholder.他出现的时候我非常惊讶——我想象中他应该老得多。
Write downyourgoalsand visualiseyourselfachievingthem.
Sometimes youcanvisualize what youwantto do but you just can't do it.
to imagine something
- imagineYou can just imagine her storing up these anecdotes for her dinner parties.
- think ofI want you to think of a time when you felt happy.
- pictureCan you picture yourself at the age of 60 doing what you do now?
- pictureWhen I say 'your car' you have a picture of that in your head.
- in your mind's eyeIn my mind's eye, I'm still a uni student and not a middle-aged worker.
- conceiveI can't conceive why anyone would want to hurt her.
sciencespecialized
to make somethingableto beseen:
An echocardiogram canaccuratelyvisualise themotionof the heart'swalls.
Enzymeactivitywas visualized as ayellowishstainingon agreenbackground.
- First of all, before I havebeguntopaint, I visualise how thepaintingwillappear.
- He could visualise asuccessfulfuturefor himself.
- Sheexplainedthat goodreadersvisualize what they'rereading.
- Significantimprovementinresolutionwasachievedoncethecrystalswere visualized by cryoelectronmicroscopy.
- It wasn't until the 1920s that afeasibletechniquecould bedevisedforadequatelyvisualizing the urologicaltract.
Imagining and conceiving
- assume
- beyondyourwildest dreamsidiom
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceivably
- guess
- imagine
- imputesomethingtosomeone
- inyourmind's eyeidiom
- inconceivably
- lay the foundation(s) of/foridiom
- look on/uponsomeone/somethingassomething
- reach
- regard
- retheorize
- revisualization
- riot
- run riotidiom
- theorize
- throw
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