visualize

To form a picture of someone or something in your mind.

• Close your eyes and visualize a beach.
• She visualized herself winning the race.
• Can you visualize how the room will look?

How to use it: visualize doing something (Try to visualize walking calmly onto the stage.)

Similar words: imagine, picture, envision

Common phrases: visualize something, visualize success, visualize the scene

To show information or ideas in a picture, chart, or other visible form.

• Use a chart to visualize the data.
• The software visualizes changes in air temperature.
• We visualized the process with a simple diagram.

How to use it: visualize something as something (We visualized the spending figures as a bar chart.)

Similar words: illustrate, depict, represent

Common phrases: visualize data, visualize the results, visualize a process

To see something, often with equipment that shows parts normally hidden from view.

• The scan allows doctors to visualize the heart.
• We visualized the cells through a microscope.
• Can this camera visualize tissue beneath the skin?

Similar words: see, view

Common phrases: visualize blood vessels, visualize the organ, visualize the tissue