visualize

visualize (someone or something) as (something)

To create an image in one's mind of someone or something being a particular thing or looking a certain way. I can't help but laugh visualizing my brother the hippie as some straight-laced police officer. Growing up, whenever my mom talked about my cousin being in the Navy Seals, I always visualized him as a literal seal wearing a military uniform.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

visualize someone or something as someone or something

to imagine or envision someone as someone or something or something as something. I can almost visualize you as the president. I visualize this room as a meeting place for everyone.
See also: visualize
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • visualize (someone or something) as (something)
  • visualize as
  • chortle
  • laugh until you cry
  • split a gut
  • split a/(one's) gut
  • raise a laugh
  • raise a laugh/smile
  • get in bad
  • get in bad with (one)
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They also learned that if homeowners could visualize the air quality in their home, they always stayed on top of labeling and looking at the data.
Using a connected mobile device, supervisors and maintenance personnel can visualize the problem remotely and quickly determine how to respond.
VISUALIZE...what a world, this could, would and should truly be.
Her method was to make me sit back with my eyes closed and to visualize what the paper looked like.
Splunk software and cloud services enable organizations to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine-generated big data coming from websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors and mobile devices.
They visualize the many trees in their back and front yards as robust and deeply rooted, and strong enough to withstand the mightiest gust of wind the typhoon would bring with it.
I have used it to visualize better future scenarios.
What's lacking is the ability to visualize with "depth perception," the ability to "look around" objects and to "interact" with them.
Since trying to visualize and make the same apparent and trying to concretize the same assist the children to make different associations and to connect with daily life easier, may assist them to use more words and express themselves more easily.
South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT), responsible for 62 percent of South Carolina roads, selected Intergraph's GeoMedia[R] 3D to visualize three-dimensional (3D) surface models in pre-construction project planning, resulting in a more accurate estimate of expenditures associated with the engineering of project alternatives.
ISLAMABAD, November 27, 2011 (Frontier Star): In a bid to improve development aid impact, World Bank and Partners call for Open Collaborative Maps and announced their endorsement of the Open Aid Partnership to visualize their development assistance through innovative technologies.
To help visualize demographic changes from 2000 to 2010, the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York updated its interactive maps of Houston and other major U.S.
Abstract: In this article a numerical MATLAB algorithm is presented to visualize the workspace of serial and parallel kinematics.
But with the help of computers it is easy and takes less than a couple of hours to draw and visualize. The result of this computerized process, the final object, will be accurate, precise and three dimensional.