Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To form a mental picture or image of.
- intransitive verb To think or suppose; conjecture.
- intransitive verb To have a notion of or about without adequate foundation; fancy or believe.
- intransitive verb To employ the imagination.
- intransitive verb To have a belief or make a guess.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form a mental image of; produce by the imagination; especially, to construct by the productive imagination.
- To conceive in the mind; suppose; conjecture.
- To contrive in purpose; scheme; devise.
- = Syn. 1 and 2. Surmise, Guess, etc. (see
conjecture ), fancy, picture to one's self, apprehend, believe, suppose, deem. —3. To plan, frame. scheme. - To form images or conceptions; exercise imagination.
- To suppose; fancy; think.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.
- intransitive verb To think; to suppose.
- transitive verb To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.
- transitive verb To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See
Compass , v. t., 5. - transitive verb To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To form a
mental image of something; toenvision orcreate something in one's mind. - verb transitive To
believe in something created by one's own mind. - verb transitive To
assume . - verb transitive To
conjecture or guess. - verb intransitive To use one's
imagination . - verb intransitive To
guess or conjecture.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb expect, believe, or suppose
- verb form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Simply because in the first case you imagine that it is easy to go to the end of this plank, while in the second case you _imagine_ that you _cannot_ do so.
Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English Emile Cou�� 1891
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I noticed a sign advertising some kind of jalapeno burger with the words "sezur na ostro" which I can only imagine is Polish for blow your bowels up.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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The stryker scene, I imagine is in every print, to keep you interested.
How many “Wolverine” endings are there? Let’s find out. » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Now all I can imagine is this scene revised for contemporary times, in which our heroes are fined for illegal consumption of alcohol, fishing without a license, and probably a trespassing charge thrown in for good measure.
Sharing a bottle of wine with the park rangers is strictly forbidden 2010
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Perhaps equally difficult to imagine is being within a few blocks or or a couple miles of Ground Zero and surviving to escape the city — to go to Nagasaki, which would be struck by an even larger weapon three days later, and once again survive.
Book Review: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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Accept for her rather ... post-modern garb, that's like exactly as I imagine from the book.
Stick 'Em With the Pointy End grrm 2010
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David, as you can imagine, is unimpressed with this state of affairs, but still doing really rather well.
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All I can imagine is that she was absolutely, positively proper not to play into any televised escalation that would not be to her benefit, but might be to ABC's.
'Dancing with the Stars' Week 5: We watch so you don't have to Lisa de Moraes 2010
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The only thing you can imagine is that he was talking about how big the monuments are?
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Whiteness in those towels I would imagine is a mask.
hernesheir commented on the word imagine
Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for "How soon can you obtain the information?" --US Railroad Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 26, 2013