visualize-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: imagine; form a mental picture of something

Commentary:
NOTE: Compare to sense 2. In this sense the thing being visualized does not actually exist in concrete form in the same place as the visualizer.

Examples:
Visualize a nice meadow by a babbling brook, it helps relieve stress.
I can visualize my daughter as the president of the US someday.
Visualize your way to health and a new life.
The psychic had a talent to visualize events before they happened.

Mappings:
VerbNet: characterize-29.2-1-1
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: visualize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 3

Sense Number 2: MEDICAL: make visible with the help of machinery

Commentary:
NOTE: Compare to sense 1. In this sense the thing being visualized is a concrete object somewhere near the visualizer.

Examples:
The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver in the X-rays.
This machine visualizes ultrasound.
We visualized the density of the distribution of C2.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 4