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envision

[en-vizh-uhn]

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verb (used with object)

to picture mentally, especially some future event or events: to envision a bright future.

Origin:
1920–25; en-¹ + vision

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But eventually they become completely invested in the profession, unable to envision themselves doing anything else.

He must have been a good teacher if one took his subject seriously, but it is hard to envision him suffering fools gladly.

But spaceport proponents envision a world destination bustling with space tourists and frequent rocket launches.

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But eventually they become completely invested in the profession, unable to envision themselves doing anything else.

He must have been a good teacher if one took his subject seriously, but it is hard to envision him suffering fools gladly.

But spaceport proponents envision a world destination bustling with space tourists and frequent rocket launches.

She might envision the adventures and mishaps she will share with her child along the way.

Envision chartreuse and burgundy, or peach and blue-violet, for example.

Or they envision baby farms where emotionless scientists steal organs for wealthy patients.

It empowered him to call this world into question and to envision another.

But it is hard to envision obvious ways to spend that money.

Have students ask their parents how they envision each family member's territory at home.

Tellingly, not only can he not recall the past, he can't envision the future.

The two designers envision a production facility on every desktop.

We can envision various sabbatical scenarios that would not justify deduction of travel expenses.

Many still envision them as loners toiling in their garrets, perhaps with a nasty cough.

Government planners envision a subsequent hotel boom to accommodate eventual jetloads of new tourists.

With graphene, researchers envision stamping out circuits from large wafers, much as they already do with silicon.

The company does not envision users plunking quarters into the device, however.

Most of us probably envision our courses as helping students acquire both knowledge and skills.

It's harder to envision a commodity vendor such as a gas station making money with this concept.

The hotel lover in me begins to envision possibilities.

Maybe when we've made further advances in solar cells would the lot you envision be able to provide it's own power.

Envision the wiki's purpose if you're setting one up or administrating one.

But the reality is, the kind of imagination necessary to really envision a working society without those programs is rare.

So if you don't envision accessorizing with plain black, it would be a good choice.

We envision some force pulling on us to keep us from floating away from this spinning earth.

So it is difficult to envision nationalism thriving.

As a good mental exercise try to envision money as deleted from a mental image of the problem.

Your users can only envision what they already have.

Asking hard questions about freedom helps scholars envision emancipation as a process rather than a shotgun moment of liberation.

Instead, these students envision dual-career families with both parents sharing in child raising.

Causes one to envision the life it may have held many years ago.

The teen successes envision a place for techie kids and.

Say you want to be a furniture designer and envision the future on casters.

It is hard to envision a bright future for an educational model whose total societal costs.

But it will be hard to prevent adults from returning to the sect if they want to, or are unable to envision another way of life.

It is easy to envision what might have happened next:.

Then envision your next birthday party and recall your previous one.

The goal is to envision possible futures, which will serve as guideposts to the path forward.

Very few people could envision a successful outcome.

Engineers envision a range of products made of graphene, such as ultrahigh-speed transistors.

Don't worry if you can't envision every little anatomical flourish in.

Many-layered mapmaking is helping scholars recreate vanished landscapes and envision history.

They envision a transfer of wealth from the rich to themselves.

And, one can envision using solar or wind power to power the splitting of the liquid ammonia into the two components.

Others envision the hottest ticket in urban theater.

We can relive events that happened long ago or envision ourselves in the future.

The department's faculty members may envision three vacancies:.

Researchers envision the emotion-sensing robot serving military personnel on the battlefield.

When you try to envision how the politics of hope would play out in the real world, things go a bit fuzzy.

Moral imagination means the capacity to envision new ways to live your life.

Vacco said he could envision prosecuting parents whose children failed to attend school for long periods of time.

It is easy to envision a well off student buying the entire package.

It is difficult to envision the region making a significant positive contribution to world economic growth over this period.

Even the biggest radio fans envision a grim future for the medium.

Going forward, space-travel entrepreneurs envision two principal scenarios for public space treks.

Actually, the sort of meetings you envision do take place on a fairly regular bases.

We have only begun to envision a world where mythological beliefs are unnecessary.

He added that he could envision a prototype suit in three years.

They must envision the unknown and make it knowable, and their stories can live or die on the strength of their creatures.

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World English Dictionary

envision (ɪnˈvɪʒən)

—vb
	(tr) to conceive of as a possibility, esp in the future; foresee

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Word Origin & History

envision

1921, from en- "make, put in" + vision (q.v.).

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"So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish."

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