visualize
/ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To form a mental picture of (something); to picture (something) in the mind; to envisage.
Transitive verb
verb
To make (a hidden or unclear body part, process, or object) visible by optical methods (such as endoscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, or X-rays), or other techniques.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Be sure to find an area far away from the city or street lights, the darker the better. Lean back or lie flat on your back with your feet facing south and visualize as much of the sky as possible. Most meteors appear as faint streaks in the sky."
- "to visualize data using a chart"
- "When [Vincent] van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment in time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can. The vision on the canvas is a third thing, utterly intangible and inexplicable, the offspring of the sunflower itself and van Gogh himself."
- "The black male model in the hoodie references the trope of the urban black menace so clearly visualized in the ghetto action films of the early 1990s as well as in contemporary music videos."
- "By becoming a male-to-female crossdresser, Chan-Hyo BAE gains insight into his identity under dual oppression. Out of the desire to know himself better, he boldly breaks into the regional differences between the East and West, the time differences between the past and present, and the gender differences between man and woman. […] Bae visualizes such differences and exposes the fallacy through his deviant, transgressional work, Existing in Costume."
- "In our own poetry we get from [Geoffrey] Chaucer the first instance of self-analysis and description, the first case of visualising self."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/
- British English: /ˈvɪʒʊəlaɪz/