to visualize
- verb
- /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/
- US
- To help with my goal, I often visualize myself succeeding and achieving my dreams.
- help students visualize
- visualize what you read
- students visualize
Well, let me just dream and let's visualize all of it.
- Well, let me just dream and let's visualize all of it.
- The, the, the, how do you visualize those two spaces?
- So, So I think that with me, visualizing became a normal thing.
- Everybody could, you know, sort of visualize what this meant, right?
- No, this is just another trick to help visualize the unvisualizable.
- But you yourself won't visualize yourself doing that.
- We can delude ourselves into thinking we can visualize it, but we can't.
- You know, make us visualize things that can't happen, right?
- The exact house that I live in, I visualize something similar to it.
- But the first step is just, you know, verbalize it, visualize it and then say it.
- You and I could visualize this overnight.
- And then for some reason, I can help visualize and create systems to capture that.
- That's just shut my eyes, visualise, you know, rehearse this, this race.
Examples
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Before we do the problem, let's try to visualize what's going on.
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Students can be shown the drawing first before being asked to visualize what it would look like.
Academic text (2011) -
Everybody could, you know, sort of visualize what this meant, right?
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Now visualize a light of the color associated with your goal.
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Just try to visualize it.
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As I enter the school for the first time, I will visualize what it will be like on the last day of my senior year.
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Jake, visualize where you want the ball to go and drill it.
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Passage was easier to complete and understand because I could visualize what the author described.
Academic text (2015) -
When exploring the human hand, consider the best way to visualize the parts for discussion.
Academic text (2011) -
Concept Mapping: Concept maps demonstrate how people visualize relationships between various concepts.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
To picture something in your mind
To form a picture in your mind of something not real
To imagine how something looks
To picture something in your mind, often a possible future
To imagine something as possible
To imagine something as possible or real
To form a picture in your mind of something not present
How Vivid
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Morphology
Etymology
Visualize also uses the same parts visual 'related to seeing' and -ize 'make', so a helpful way to remember it is 'to make a picture' in your mind. That's why to visualize can mean to imagine or to 'see' something inside your head.