envision en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɪnˈvɪʒn̩/
Etymology
From en- + vision, from Latin visionem (“a thing or sight seen”).
Meanings
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(transitive) To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.
Miller famously tried to use as little CGI as possible in Fury Road. Instead, he got people to make the freaky, impossible cars he’d envisioned—the spike-covered scavenger-mobiles, the monster-truck hot rod, the enormous War Rig that really serves as a main character in itself—into functional vehicles.
2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| envisions | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| envisioned | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| envisioned | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| envisioning | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Deriveds
envisioner · envisionment · reenvision
Synonyms
envisage · think up · imagine · dream · visualize
Translations (21)
es imaginar (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · cmn 想象 (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · it immaginare (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · es concebir (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · fr envisager (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · cmn 展望 (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · ro întrevedea (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · pt visualizar (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · fi nähdä mielessään (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · eo vizii (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · fi kuvitella (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · es fraguar (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · es discurrir (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · it prevedere (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · es idear (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · fi visioida (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · de sich vorstellen (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · sv föreställa sig (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · it pensare (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · it sognare (to conceive or see something within one's mind) · es visualizar (to conceive or see something within one's mind)