单词 | visualize |
释义 | visualizev. 1. transitive. To form a mental vision, image, or picture of (something not visible or present to the sight, or of an abstraction); to make visible to the mind or imagination.Frequently in recent use, sometimes in connection with special branches of psychology or psychical research. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)] seeOE thinkOE bethinkc1175 devise1340 portraya1375 imagec1390 dreama1393 supposea1393 imaginea1398 conceive?a1425 fantasyc1430 purposea1513 to frame to oneselfa1529 'magine1530 imaginate1541 fancy1551 surmit?1577 surmise1586 conceit?1589 propose1594 ideate1610 project1612 figurea1616 forma1616 to call up1622 propound1634 edify1645 picture1668 create1679 fancify1748 depicture1775 vision1796 to conjure up1819 conjure1820 envisage1836 to dream up1837 visualize1863 envision1921 pre-visualize1969 1817 [see visualized adj. at Derivatives]. 1834 [see visualized adj. at Derivatives]. 1863 J. Tyndall Heat x. 350 We can hardly help attempting to visualise the atoms themselves. 1899 J. Smith Christian Char. 165 Bunyan, in his immortal allegory, visualised the progress from justification to glory. 2. absol. or intransitive. To form a mental picture of something not visible or present, or of an abstract thing, etc.; to construct a visual image or images in the mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (intransitive)] areachc1220 supposea1393 thinka1400 framea1529 to conceive of1570 humour1605 imagine1631 conceive1658 realize1658 visualize1871 1871 J. A. Symonds in H. F. Brown Biog. (1895) II. 52 For numbers I have..no head. I do not visualise except in the most rudimentary way. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 485 This answers to the way in which I visualize for them. 1897 A. Lang Bk. Dreams & Ghosts ii. 58 A novelist of my acquaintance can ‘visualise’ so well that [etc.]. 3. transitive. To render visible. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be or make visible [verb (transitive)] > make visible wisec1400 show1532 reveal1590 unbosom1610 unveil1656 visualize1912 1912 Moving Picture World 17 Aug. 646/2 The printed volumes of ancient history have been carefully preserved and why not the film, which is more accurate and which, supplementing the printed story, would visualize the actual occurrences so that all may readily understand? 1925 D. H. Lawrence in Cal. Mod. Lett. Dec. 269 And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than Van Gogh can. 1938 Q. Jrnl. Med. 31 462 Inflating the stomach with gas by means of an effervescing drink, a procedure we have found of great help in visualizing the apex [of the heart in radiography]. 1958 A.M.A. Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 79 59/1 The dorsal root axons..may then be stained and visualized. 1971 Daily Tel. 18 Nov. 5 (advt.) Research has led to the building of an ultra-sensitive Schlieren apparatus, in which pulsed ultrasound may be visualised both in water and in solids. Derivatives ˈvisualized adj. made visual or visible to the mind; formed in the mind.Carlyle's use of visualized was objected to by Sterling (see Carlyle Life Sterling ii. ii). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > imagined or visualized presenta1393 conceivedc1425 imaginate1533 conceited1543 imaginedc1550 surmised1578 coined1582 brain-spun1595 brain-born1596 fustian1601 brain-bred1606 humoured1613 imaged1718 visual1817 visualized1817 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. ii. 48 (note) The images are at least consistent, and it was the intention of the writers to mark the seasons by this allegory of visualized puns. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. viii. 19/1 A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance;—some embodied, visualised Idea in the Eternal Mind? 1883 F. Galton Inquiries into Human Faculty (1910) 112 A third..abiding fantasy of certain persons is invariably to connect visualised pictures with words. ˈvisualizing n. (also attributive) and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > act of imagining imagination1340 conceptiona1387 imaginingc1430 suppositiona1529 conceiving1559 picturing1562 conceiting1563 fancy1581 forgery1582 surmise1592 imagery1595 imaging1648 ideation1818 envisagement1877 visualizing1880 envisaging1883 visualization1883 envisioning1938 projecting1960 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [adjective] > exercising imagination conceiving1592 imaginous1606 coining1630 representative1814 imaginant1840 visualizing1880 ideoplastic1883 fanciful- 1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 43 A pictorial visualizing imagination, which can faithfully depict the scenes recorded. 1881 Sat. Rev. 30 July 142/1 Mr. Francis Galton's interesting illustrations of the power of visualizing. a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. p. xli It involves at least a great increase in his ordinary visualising power. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1817 |
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