verb
visualise
Visualise (verb) means British spelling of visualize, used outside Oxford-style spelling conventions. Example: “Try to visualise the finished room before you pick a paint colour.”
verb
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British spelling of visualize, used outside Oxford-style spelling conventions.
"The humanitarian, frequently ignoring hard reality, visualises one cosmopolitan community where justice and social sympathy measured in terms of some one set of units reign supreme."
— Lynden Macassey, Labour and the League of Nations […] [book reviews] (1921)
"Possible developments such as electric or diesel suburban services may be visualised when the town has grown sufficiently to justify them."
— R. A. Marshall, Kuala Lumpur, an Important Malayan Railway Centre (1950)
"Try to visualise the finished room before you pick a paint colour."
"Trains have increased in weight far beyond anything visualised when the bridge was designed, but it has never undergone any major structural alterations, and continues to carry main-line traffic without weight restriction."
— , Centenary of the Royal Border Bridge (1950)
How to use visualise
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishSame word and meaning as visualize — just the common British spelling.
UK vs US
Both -ise and -ize spellings are accepted in British English; -ize is standard in American English.
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Word forms
- Third person singular
- visualises
- Past tense
- visualised
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Try to _____ the finished room before you pick a paint colour.
Etymology
From visual + the suffix -ise, the everyday British alternative to -ize.
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Rhymes for visualise
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What does “visualise” mean?
The word “visualise” means british spelling of visualize, used outside Oxford-style spelling conventions. In plain terms, same word and meaning as visualize — just the common British spelling.
How do you use “visualise” in a sentence?
Here is “visualise” used in a sentence: “Try to visualise the finished room before you pick a paint colour.”
What part of speech is “visualise”?
“Visualise” is a verb.
What is the meaning of visualise?
"visualise" (verb) means british spelling of visualize, used outside Oxford-style spelling conventions.
