Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The faculty of sight; eyesight.
- noun Something that is or has been seen.
- noun Unusual competence in discernment or perception; intelligent foresight.
- noun The manner in which one sees or conceives of something.
- noun A mental image produced by the imagination.
- noun The mystical experience of seeing something that is not in fact present to the eye or is supernatural.
- noun A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
- transitive verb To see in a vision.
- transitive verb To picture in the mind; envision.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To see as in a vision; perceive by the eye of the intellect or imagination.
- To present in or as in a vision.
- noun The act of seeing external objects; sight.
- noun The faculty that perceives the luminosity, color, form, and relative size of objects; that sense whose organ is the eye; by extension, an analogous mental power. As noting one of the five special senses of the body, vision is correlated with olfaction, audition, gustation, and taction. See
sight . - noun That which is seen; an object of sight; specifically, a supernatural or prophetic appearance; something seen in a dream, ecstasy, trance, or the like; also, an imaginary appearance; an apparition; a phantom.
- noun Anything unreal or imaginary; a mere creation of fancy; a fanciful view.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To see in a vision; to dream.
- noun The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
- noun (Physiol.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.
- noun That which is seen; an object of sight.
- noun Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter.
- noun Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
- noun (Astron.) the arc which measures the least distance from the sun at which, when the sun is below the horizon, a star or planet emerging from his rays becomes visible.
- noun (Theol.) the immediate sight of God in heaven.
- noun (Opt.) vision when the image of the object falls directly on the yellow spot (see under
Yellow ); also, vision by means of rays which are not deviated from their original direction. - noun field of view. See under
Field . - noun (Opt.) vision when the rays of light from an object fall upon the peripheral parts of the retina.
- noun vision by rays reflected from mirrors, or refracted by lenses or prisms, respectively.
- noun (Physiol.) See Visual purple, under
Visual .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The sense or ability of
sight . - noun countable Something
imaginary one thinks one sees. - noun countable An
ideal or agoal toward which oneaspires . - noun countable A
religious ormystical experience of asupernatural appearance. - noun countable A person or thing of extraordinary
beauty . - verb transitive To
imagine something as if it were to be true.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ability to see; the visual faculty
- noun a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance
- noun a vivid mental image
- noun the perceptual experience of seeing
- noun the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term vision had better be restricted to mean a dream during trance-sleep.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various
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The term vision 2020 has virtually disappeared from the local lexicon.
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She wrote, At The White House Project we tell women that our vision is a place where women can be judged on their agenda, not their gender.
Marcia G. Yerman: Women and the Political Landscape: Unraveling Perplexing Issues Marcia G. Yerman 2010
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Oh, my vision is a guy with a 12 Str and 14 Dex, not a guy with a 13 Str and a 13 Dex.
Player Empowerment or Player Entitlement? « Geek Related 2010
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She wrote, At The White House Project we tell women that our vision is a place where women can be judged on their agenda, not their gender.
Marcia G. Yerman: Women and the Political Landscape: Unraveling Perplexing Issues Marcia G. Yerman 2010
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She wrote, At The White House Project we tell women that our vision is a place where women can be judged on their agenda, not their gender.
Marcia G. Yerman: Women and the Political Landscape: Unraveling Perplexing Issues Marcia G. Yerman 2010
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But by all means, continue to insist that your vision is the right one, facts be damned.
Think Progress » Profit-Seeking Palin Reportedly Rips CPAC As A Profiteering Convention 2010
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So your vision is as bad as your reading comprehension, huh?
Think Progress » Gingrich: Hoekstra’s Campaign Got A ‘Boost’ From Failed Airline Bomber 2010
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Instead, Miliband believes his vision is actually centrist, if he only had the chance to explain it.
Ed Miliband leadership: 'Red Ed' yearns to put forward his centrist vision Allegra Stratton 2010
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She wrote, At The White House Project we tell women that our vision is a place where women can be judged on their agenda, not their gender.
Marcia G. Yerman: Women and the Political Landscape: Unraveling Perplexing Issues Marcia G. Yerman 2010
bilby commented on the word vision
We are at
The Nile's end.
We are carrying particles
From every continent, creature, and age.
It has been raining on the plains
Of our vision for millions of years.
- Hafiz, 'The Gift', translated by Daniel Ladinsky.
October 27, 2008
brobbins commented on the word vision
to feel, felt, descent
July 24, 2009