Visualize Meaning
/ˈvɪʒʊəlaɪz/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo perceive (something) visually; to see.
verbTo depict (something) in a way which can be seen.
Sentence Examples
Positron Emission Tomography uses a radioactive tracer to visualize metabolic activity within the human body.
It's difficult to visualize four dimensions.
Sami was trying really hard to visualize that.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Before the exam, she closed her eyes to ____ the answers she had studied.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He tried to ____ the final result of the project to help him stay focused on the many difficult tasks today.
Word Origin & History
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).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
Before the exam, she closed her eyes to ____ the answers she had studied.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He tried to ____ the final result of the project to help him stay focused on the many difficult tasks today.