Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of forming images in the mind.
- noun That which is imagined.
- noun Scheming; plot; contrivance.
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- noun Something imagined.
- verb Present participle of
imagin . - verb Present participle of
imagine .
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Examples
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That an intervening level of "imagining" is involved in reading seems intuitively correct, although I guess I'd like to see some neuroscientific evidence that reading about violence is as different an experience from being confronted with it -- or its aesthetic representation -- directly in filmed images as Crain thinks it is.
Saying Something 2010
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But then you forget all about logic in "imagining" that school vouchers would be an improvement.
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Brain imagining (PET scans) shows that high-sugar and high-fat foods work just like heroin, opium, or morphine in the brain. (iii)
Mark Hyman, MD: Food Addiction: Could It Explain Why 70 Percent of Americans Are Fat? MD Mark Hyman 2010
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Indeed, in imagining a world in which costumed crimefighters really did exist, Moore developed quite a bit of different motives for each of the heroes to put on a mask.
The Moral Exemplars of Watchmen | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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Brain imagining (PET scans) shows that high-sugar and high-fat foods work just like heroin, opium, or morphine in the brain. (iii)
Mark Hyman, MD: Food Addiction: Could It Explain Why 70 Percent of Americans Are Fat? MD Mark Hyman 2010
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I've tried to be as broad as possible in imagining what top disappointments could be, so you'll have to forgive the length of the list.
Chris Weigant: To Lefties: How Does Obama Disappoint? Chris Weigant 2010
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Alan's thing is that he's delusional in imagining his future is brighter than it ever will be.
Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition' Stuart Jeffries 2010
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Imagining my way into the lives of the people who might have owned the painting through the centuries resulted in imagining my way out of my own dire circumstances.
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At a time when Bachardy was intermittently deserting him, this was Isherwood's experiment in imagining himself alone and self-sufficient, which for the novel's hero proves to be intolerable.
Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young' Peter Conrad 2010
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May 21st, 2010 at 10: 45 am no ts not cool, considering that its aimed at kids. i read on another blog a lot of commentors said that the female disney characters themselves were already very sexualised, so this re-imagining is kinda pointless in that regard. danny Says:
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