VISUALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visualise mean? 

• VISUALISE (verb)
  The verb VISUALISE has 4 senses:

1. view the outline of by means of an X-ray

2. form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract

3. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

4. make visible

  Familiarity information: VISUALISE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISUALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they visualise    ... he / she / it visualises   
Past simple: visualised   
Past participle: visualised   
-ing form: visualising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

View the outline of by means of an X-ray

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

visualise; visualize

Context example:

The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver

Hypernyms (to "visualise" is one way to...):

catch; see; take in; view; watch (see or watch)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "visualise"):

image (render visible, as by means of MRI)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

visualise; visualize

Context example:

Mathematicians often visualize

Hypernyms (to "visualise" is one way to...):

conceive of; envisage; ideate; imagine (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case)

Verb group:

envision; fancy; figure; image; picture; project; see; visualise; visualize (imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

visualisation (a mental image that is similar to a visual perception)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

envision; fancy; figure; image; picture; project; see; visualise; visualize

Context example:

I can see a risk in this strategy

Hypernyms (to "visualise" is one way to...):

conceive of; envisage; ideate; imagine (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case)

Verb group:

realise; realize; see; understand (perceive (an idea or situation) mentally)

visualise; visualize (form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make visible

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

visualise; visualize

Context example:

With this machine, ultrasound can be visualized

Hypernyms (to "visualise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

A simple non-quantitative form of interference microscopy of great utility in visualising live cells.

(Phase-Contrast Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

Visualising the molecular architecture of wood allows us to investigate how changing the arrangement of certain polymers within it might alter its strength, said Professor Paul Dupree, a co-author of the study in Cambridge’s Department of Biochemistry.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)

Small differences in optical path length due to differences in refractive index and thickness of structures are visualised as differences in light intensity.

(Phase-Contrast Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)