visualize

CEFRB1

/ˈvɪʒʊəlaɪz/

verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
verb
To imagine or show something as a picture.
02
verb
Extra detail
To depict (something) in a way which can be seen.

Examples

Positron Emission Tomography uses a radioactive tracer to visualize metabolic activity within the human body.
Sami was trying really hard to visualize that.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/ˈvɪzjʊəlaɪz/
/ˈvɪʒəwəˌlaɪz/

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verb

Extra meanings

To form a mental picture of (something); to picture (something) in the mind; to envisage.
To perceive (something) visually; to see.
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.

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In context

It's difficult to visualize four dimensions.
to visualize data using a chart
In our own poetry we get from [Geoffrey] Chaucer the first instance of self-analysis and description, the first case of visualising self.

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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.
2023 December 13, Carrie Hodgin, Brian Slocum, “When is the Best Time to View the Meteor Shower? Everything to Know about the Geminids Meteor Shower”, in WXII-TV, Winston-Salem, N.C., archived from the original on 14 Dec 2023
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.
1925, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “[Literature and Art.] Morality and the Novel.”, in Edward D[avid] McDonald, editor, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, London: William Heinemann, published 1936, →OCLC, page 527
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.
2005, Nicole R. Fleetwood, “Hip-hop Fashion, Masculine Anxiety, and the Discourse of Americana”, in Harry J. Elam, Jr., Kennell Jackson [Jr.], editors, Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, part 4 (Trafficking in Black Visual Images: Television, Film, and New Media), page 336
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.
2018, Kim Hong-hee, “Chan-Hyo BAE: Living on the Borderlines”, in Chan[-]hyo Bae, Existing in Costume, Seoul, South Korea: Museum of Photography, Seoul, →ISBN
In our own poetry we get from [Geoffrey] Chaucer the first instance of self-analysis and description, the first case of visualising self.
1899, F. F. Leighton, “‘In My Mind’s Eye, Horatio’”, in Life and Books, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, page 13

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Origin

verb

From visual + -ize (suffix forming verbs denoting the doing or making of what is denoted by the adjectives or nouns to which it is attached).

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Before the exam, she closed her eyes to blank— the answers she had studied.

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verb

Before the exam, she closed her eyes to blank the answers she had studied.