Imagine
[ɪ'mædʒɪn]
Definition
(verb.) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; 'Can you conceive of him as the president?'.
Checked by Darren--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.
(v. t.) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.
(v. t.) To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.
(v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.
(v. i.) To think; to suppose.
Inputed by Enoch
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Conceive, image, fancy, picture, picture to one's self, figure to one's self.[2]. Think, apprehend, suppose, believe, deem.[3]. Devise, contrive, plot, scheme, project, frame.
v. n. Suppose, think, opine, fancy, dream, take it into one's head, have a notion.
Typist: Winfred
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Conceive, suppose, Surmise, understand, fancy, fabricate, deem, presume, think,apprehend
ANT:Represent, exhibit, demonstrate, prove, substantiate, verify, depict
Checker: Salvatore
Definition
v.t. to form an image of in the mind: to conceive: to think: (B.) to contrive or devise.—v.i. to form mental images: to conceive.—adj. Imag′inable that may be imagined.—n. Imag′inableness.—adv. Imag′inably.—adj. Imag′inary existing only in the imagination: not real: (alg.) impossible.—n. Imaginā′tion act of imagining: the faculty of forming images in the mind: that which is imagined: contrivance.—adj. Imag′inātive full of imagination: proceeding from the imagination.—ns. Imag′inātiveness; Imag′iner; Imag′ining that which is imagined.
Typist: Rex
Examples
- In both, as I should imagine, he replied. Plato. The Republic.
- None can imagine her ferocious cruelty who has not witnessed her daily acts for over half a year. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You may imagine something of my present state. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But, she added, looking at Mr. Casaubon, I can imagine what he has written to you about. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But you can imagine how surprised I was, Mr. Holmes, when, on my return on the Monday, I saw the same man on the same stretch of road. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We are not apt to imagine our posterity will excel us, or equal our ancestors. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I cannot imagine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yes, so I imagined. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This gentleman, as may be imagined, was not kept long in ignorance of the secret. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A more hard-favored set, perhaps, could not be imagined. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If I had but most distantly imagined such a possibility---- Mrs. Yorke would still have beaten you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Otherwise they could not have imagined that I had returned to my rooms. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She looked at him from that distance in some trouble, imagining that there might have been an offence in her words. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He lent it fruitful direction, a different impetus, and the results are beyond his imagining. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Seeing bad signs, one, with fear, imagines an end for himself and one thinks that imagining comes by divination, Robert Jordan concluded. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Therefore, no one thought of imagining that he cared more for her than for the others. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Sir Percival Glyde, she repeated, imagining that I had not heard her former reply. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Her heart beat fast, she flew away on wings of elation, imagining a future. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She went on imagining the scene at the church, which he had by this time approached with his bride. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Really, it's like one of the reaches of the Nile--as one imagines the Nile. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Seeing bad signs, one, with fear, imagines an end for himself and one thinks that imagining comes by divination, Robert Jordan concluded. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There is a restlessness in all disorders of the mind, which the sufferer imagines can be best relieved by exercise. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- When a student imagines that philosophy gives him a headache, he never does anything; he is always unwell. Plato. The Republic.
- After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Murray