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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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: visualize, 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: visualize, visualise]
3: form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract; "Mathematicians often visualize" [syn: visualize, visualise]
4: make visible; "With this machine, ultrasound can be visualized" [syn: visualize, visualise]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-ized; -izing) Date: 1817 transitive verb to make visible: as a. to see or form a mental image of ; envisage <trying to visualize the problem> b. to make (an internal organ or part) visible by radiographic visualization intransitive verb to form a mental visual image

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Derivatives: visualizable adj. visualization n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Visualize Vis"u*al*ize, v. t. To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy. [Written also visualise.] No one who has not seen them [glaciers] can possibly visualize them. --Lubbock.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(visualizes, visualizing, visualized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'visualise' If you visualize something, you imagine what it is like by forming a mental picture of it. Susan visualized her wedding day and saw herself walking down the aisle on her father's arm... He could not visualize her as old... She visualized him stomping to his car, the picture of self-righteousness... It was hard to visualize how it could have been done. = imagine VERB: V n, V n prep, V n -ing, V wh • visualization (visualizations) ...a perfect visualization of reality. N-VAR

Moby Thesaurus

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