imagine

1 عمومی:: تصور كردن‌، حدس‌ زدن‌، فرض‌ كردن‌، انگاشتن‌، پنداشتن‌

شبکه مترجمین ایران

1 general:: verb pretend: Imagine you are the King of England.

Simple Definitions

2 general::   verb form a picture of sth in your mind ADV. clearly, easily, readily I could clearly imagine the scene in the office. | hardly, scarcely I could hardly imagine living in such a remote and desolate spot. | just She could just imagine her mother's look of horror. | actually I can't actually imagine her falling for that trick. | always I always imagined him following in his father's footsteps. | fondly, naively I had fondly imagined that riding a mule would be easy. VERB + IMAGINE can/could (well) I can well imagine the atmosphere at home at this moment. | can/could not (possibly) There's more at stake here than you can possibly imagine. | try to | be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to It is difficult to imagine Blackpool without its famous Tower. | be easy to PHRASES let us imagine Let us imagine what really might have happened. see/hear/think sth that is not true/does not exist ADV. really, seriously You don't seriously imagine I'll agree to that? | almost I could almost imagine you were jealous. | actually | fondly, naively VERB + IMAGINE be easy to PHRASES be imagining things Had I really heard a noise, or was I just imagining things? | real or imagined He was always keen to avenge insults, real or imagined.

Oxford Collocations Dictionary

3 general:: imagine to form a picture or idea in your mind about what something might be like: • When I think of Honolulu, I imagine long white beaches and palm trees. • I can’t really imagine being a millionaire. visualize to form a picture of someone or something in your mind, especially something that is definitely going to happen or exist in the future: • Anna visualized meeting Greg again at the airport. • The finished house may be hard to visualize. picture to form a clear picture of something or someone in your mind: • I can still picture my father, even though he died a long time ago. • The town was just how she had pictured it from his description. envisage especially British English , envision to imagine something as possible or likely to happen in the future: • How do you envisage your career developing over the next ten years? • They had envisioned the creation of a single armed force, small but efficient. conceive of something formal to imagine a situation, especially one that is difficult to imagine: • For many people, music is so important that they cannot conceive of life without it. fantasize to imagine something exciting that you would like to happen, but that is very unlikely to happen: • I used to fantasize about becoming a film star. daydream to imagine pleasant things, so that you forget where you are and what you should be doing: • Mark began to daydream, and didn’t even hear the teacher’s question. hallucinate to imagine that you are seeing things that are not really there, especially because you are ill or have taken drugs: • The drug that can cause some people to hallucinate. • When I saw the walls moving, I thought I must be hallucinating.

Longman-Thesaurus

4 general:: imagine phrases be easy to imagine • It’s easy to imagine how the change in the law caused a lot of confusion. be hard/difficult to imagine • It’s hard to imagine the suffering she must have gone through. can easily imagine • I can easily imagine how frightening the accident must have been. can well imagine (= can easily imagine ) • I can well imagine how delighted you were with the news. can hardly/scarcely imagine (= find it difficult to imagine ) • He could scarcely imagine what living in such poor conditions must have been like. can’t/couldn’t imagine • He couldn’t imagine life without his wife. what somebody had imagined (= what someone thought something would be like, before they saw it or experienced it ) • The office was not what he had imagined. be bigger/smaller/worse etc than you had imagined • The job interview proved to be much worse than I had imagined it would be. let us imagine … (= used to encourage someone else to think about a possibility ) • Let us imagine that you are an employer who wants to recruit some new staff. somebody is imagining things (= someone has a false or wrong idea about something ) • She’s imagining things if she thinks she has a chance of winning the prize. naively imagine (= to imagine something without realizing how complicated the situation is ) • She had naively imagined that marriage would solve all her problems. fondly imagine (= to believe something that is untrue ) • He had fondly imagined that she was in love with him.

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