visionn.
/ˈvɪʒn/, U.S. /ˈvɪʒən/ 1.
a. Something which is apparently seen otherwise than by ordinary sight; esp. an appearance of a prophetic or mystical character, or having the nature of a revelation, supernaturally presented to the mind either in sleep or in an abnormal state. beatific vision: see beatific adj. b.In early texts a vision cannot always be clearly separated from avision.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > a vision > [noun]
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > vision > [noun]
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bethphanya1634
theophanya1634
beatific vision1702
Christophany1843
theophanism1849
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > vision or apparition
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] > an inspired prophecy
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destiny1602
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c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 52 Seint Edward cam al-so aniȝht ase in a visioun To an holi man þat þere was neiȝ.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 65 Who so lokes his life, & redis his vision, What vengeance ordeyned was on Inglond to be don.
c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4369 Þis was þat Iohan saw in a vision Of hym þat semed þe virgyn son.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 113 Þat ȝere byfel þe secounde siȝt and visioun of Daniel, of þe aungel þat delyuerede þe children out of þe ouene.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4454 Als þai lai in þat prisun, A-naght þam mete a visiun.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 98 This prophete.. Be a visioune so hevenly and divyne, Toke a chalice.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 17 When he had told þe kyng of þys vysion, þe kyng made preche hit ouer all þe reme.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bi The seruant of god Moyses, had moste hye reuelacions and visions.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxv Secrete teachers that fayned them selues to see visions, and to haue talke with God.
1584 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao iv. iii. 56 I haue had many phantastical visions, for euen now slumbring by your beddes side, mee thought I was shadowed with a clowd.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 227 But behold an accident, which I rather thought at the first to haue bene a vision, then (as I found it) reall.
1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love i. i. 4 Char... What did the Vision shew? Placid... A Town besieg'd; and on the neighb'ring Plain Lay heaps of visionary Souldiers slain.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 159. ¶8 I then turned again to the Vision which I had been so long contemplating.
1757 T. Gray Ode II iii. i, in Odes 19 Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
1802 J. Leyden Mermaid xxvi Like one that from a fearful dream Awakes,..Yet fears to find the vision true.
1849 T. De Quincey Vision Sudden Death in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 751/1 On the ocean,..the unknown lady from the dreadful vision and I myself are floating.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 80 In the vision, God is understood to have represented things to come, as a picture to the prophet's mind.
b. Without article. (Cf. avision n. 2.)
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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxxxviii. 19 When þou sayd þat, þou spak in visyon, þat is, in pryue reuelacioun til prophetis.
a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 3809 Als he lay opon a nyght In a dreme, than thoght him right That he was warned in visiowne [etc.].
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1621 To vndyrstand..the mater of Morpheus hys shewyng As he hath the ledde aboute in vysyon.
1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 210 Ȝit of new tressone I can tell the tailis, That cumis on nycht in visioun in my sleip.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 256 Just Simeon and Prophetic Anna, warn'd By Vision, found thee in the Temple. View more context for this quotation
1723 A. Pope Corr. 26 Sept. (1956) II. 202 I could wish you tryd something in the descriptive way on any Subject you please, mixd with Vision & Moral.
1732 D. Waterland Scripture Vindicated iii. 52 Upon the Foot of this Construction, it is supposed, that Isaiah in prophetic Dream or Vision, heard God speaking to him.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. 131 Not do I boast the art renowned, Vision and omen to expound.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 132 Such, not in vision, but in the most certain reality, was that double view of Jerusalem from Mount Olivet.
c. A mental concept of a distinct or vivid kind; an object of mental contemplation, esp. of an attractive or fantastic character; a highly imaginative scheme or anticipation.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun]
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1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers E iv In the sayde hypocriticall Pharisei then, we see a certaine phantasticall vision, shewing that in forme which it hath not in trueth.
1668 W. Temple Wks. (1720) II. 60 I wish some of his Visions may not give it another Face than what it ought..to receive from the true present State of the Spanish Affairs.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 451 Upon the ship's tall side he stands, possess'd With visions prompted by intense desire.
1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming iii. 5 And, in the visions of romantic youth, What years of endless bliss are yet to flow.
1855 Poultry Chron. 2 582/2 Visions of success floated before me all day.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 212 The Dutch were not excited by those visions of American gold and silver which had inflamed the imagination of the Spaniards.
1879 W. E. Gladstone Gleanings Past Years II. vi. 314 The splendid visions which his fancy shaped had taken possession of his mind.
d. A person seen in a dream or trance.
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1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. xvii. 4 Sadde visions appeared vnto them with heauie countenances. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 367 The vision bright, As with a smile more bright'nd, thus repli'd. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 404 A more than Mortal Sound Invades his Ears; and thus the Vision spoke.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iv. 107 Ali..fail'd not to ask the Vision how he should obtain his promis'd Assistance in the like Cases of Difficulty.
1817 W. Scott Harold vi. xi. 187 And thou, for so the vision said, Must in thy Lord's repentance aid.
e. transferred. A person, scene, etc., of unusual beauty. (Cf. dream n.2 5.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person
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1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. ii. 38 Dost thou think it makes thee fit to be the husband of that beautiful vision?
1896 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 2/1 The big dining room is..a vision of walnut and mahogany.
1901 Daily Chron. 29 June 8/3 One girl was a remarkable vision in a creamy white cloth Empire coat.
2.
a. The action or fact of seeing or contemplating something not actually present to the eye; mystical or supernatural insight or foresight.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > a vision > [noun] > act of seeing
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > vision > [noun] > action or fact of seeing or contemplating
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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. iii. 1 In tho dais was noon opyn visioun.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 2512 Þe same nyȝt þat seynt Dunstone to Salesbury come, He saw by vysione alle þat he saw here, & myche more.
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) xviii. sig. Divv/2 In ye thirde vision yt is callid Intellectuel.
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) xviii. sig. Div/1 The seconde kynde of vysion. is callid a spyrytuell vysion, or Imagynatyf.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. xxviii. 7 Thei faile in vision: thei stomble in iudgement.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xi. 82 The first..beginning here with a weake apprehension of things not sene, endeth with the intuitiue vision of God in the world to come.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vii. xxiii. 567 It may be, that what the laborer reported, had happened vnto him by imaginary vision.
1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee 153 Ministers..neither have vision to foretell, nor power to confer, blessing.
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe i. 12 If Love be Vision, mine has all the fire Which, in first Dreams, young Prophets does inspire.
1745 J. Swift Further Thoughts in Misc. X. 240 Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt i. 18 That truths faithfully extracted from the book of nature are alone calculated to enlarge the sphere of mental vision.
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iii. 97 It needed, let us say, the divine vision of a Peter, and the inspired eloquence of a Paul, to burst the intolerable yoke.
1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism i. 14 Ecstasy or vision begins when thought ceases, to our consciousness, to proceed from ourselves.
b. Ability to conceive what might be attempted or achieved, esp. in the realm of politics; statesmanlike foresight.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [noun] > possession of > in politics or business
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forward thinking1961
1904 G. K. Chesterton Napoleon of Notting Hill ii. iii. 107 I fight for your royal vision, for the great dream you dreamt of the League of the Free Cities.]
1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 695/2 Vision, in the sense of statesman~like foresight or political sagacity, is enjoying a noticeable vogue.
1960 M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye v. 86 ‘How do you find Weedin?’ ‘Totally,’ Dougal said, ‘lacking in vision. It is his fatal flaw. Otherwise quite sane.’
1965 A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 xvi. 593 Truman, the new president, had none of Roosevelt's vision as international leader.
1973 E. F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful i. 243 A lack of vision on the part of the socialists themselves.
1982 D. Fraser Alanbrooke ix. 217 Churchill had enormous vision. He could and often did impressively surpass his supporters in his imaginative span.
3.
a. The action of seeing with the bodily eye; the exercise of the ordinary faculty of sight, or the faculty itself. Also transferred (quot. 1854).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun]
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun]
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1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) xviii. sig. Div/2 The fyrst is callyd corporal [vision] bi cause it is seen outwarde, bi bodely eye wittes.
?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. e.viv Bi cause yt our felicite is fulfilled in the visione and fruition of the humanite of crist.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxiii. sig. G4v For it [sc. my eye] no forme deliuers to the heart..Nor his owne vision houlds what it doth catch. View more context for this quotation
1645 H. Hammond Pract. Catech. i. iii. 41 Faith here is turned into Vision there.
1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 71 A means whereby he might be restored..to blessedness and the vision of his Creator.
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. iii. 201 Vision in itself is the having or perceiving an idea representatively material in consequence of a certain impression made by light upon that expansion of the optick nerve which is at the bottom of the eye.
1721 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher (new ed.) I. xii. xxv Whether he ever..consider'd the manner how Vision is perform'd.
1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. 58 The Distance of the Eye and the Thickness of the Lines should, be previous Trial, be suited to distinct Vision.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iii. 48 Even the vision of natural objects presents to us insurmountable difficulties.
1854 D. Brewster More Worlds xi. 180 The globular nebulæ of Sir W. Herschel have disappeared as globes under the sharp vision of Lord Rosse's telescope.
1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight iii. 31 To understand anything of the physiology of vision, it is necessary to have a general idea of the way in which images of objects are formed by refracting surfaces.
b. An instance of seeing; a look.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun]
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1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. ii. 189 With the blind the case must be different;..their visions of the surfaces of all things are visions of touch.
a1861 T. Woolner Tolling Bell in My Beautiful Lady ix Our visions met, when pityingly she flung Her passionate arms about me.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > dress, garb > [noun] > for face or head
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1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Excess of Apparel sig. Ggg iiij b As thoughe a wyse, and a christian husband, should delyte to see his wife in such paynted, and florished visions [1623 visages], which common harlots mostly do vse.
a1701 C. Sedley Tyrant of Crete v. ii Methinks, till this day the times had Likewise a vision on, and look'd not with A true face before.
5. A thing actually seen; an object of sight.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun]
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > vision or apparition > of person
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 272 Ha' not you seene Camillo? (But that's past doubt: you haue,..For to a Vision so apparant, Rumor Cannot be mute.) View more context for this quotation
6. The visual part of a television broadcast, television images collectively; the transmission or reproduction of such images; also, the signal corresponding to them.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun]
vision1910
video1935
visual1951
1910 H. N. Casson Hist. Telephone ix. 287 Some future Carty..may transmit vision as well as speech.
1930 S. A. Moseley & H. J. B. Chapple Television i. 9 On 9th February, 1928, the public were startled to learn that the Atlantic had been spanned by vision.
1934 J. H. Reyner Television x. 109 The radio transmission of sound or vision is usually accomplished by modulating a high-frequency carrier-wave.
1939 Jrnl. Television Soc. 3 8/1 Vision is amplified at an intermediate frequency of 13.2 m.c. (vision carrier).
1955 ‘J. Christopher’ Year of Comet i. 5 He had followed the usual practice of leaving sound switched on as well as vision.
1959 G. Freeman Jack would be Gentleman i. 8 The sound came on a full minute before the vision.
1973 E. G. M. Alkin Sound with Vision i. 3 In any entertainment medium in which sound and vision are combined there is a tendency to consider sound as the poor relation.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
vision-field n.
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1880 Academy 3 July 7 Vision-field contraction is illustrated by the case of a patient [etc.].
vision-literature n.
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1929 T. S. Eliot Dante 67 The Vita Nuova,..a sequence of beautiful poems connected by a curious vision-literature.
vision machinery n.
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1895 A. Nutt Voy. Bran I. x. 250 Early Christian literature likewise supplies similar descriptions without employing the Vision machinery.
vision-monger n.
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1718 Entertainer Ded. sig. A iij The Atheist and the Infidel..are reinforc'd by the Quaker, the Vision-monger and the Seeker.
vision poem n.
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1961 A. Clarke Later Poems 91 The Aisling, or Vision poem, in which Ireland was personified, reached its pitch in the eighteenth century.
vision-world n.
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1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow xi. 267 In the vision-world He spoke of Jerusalem, something that did not exist in the everyday world.
b.
vision-haunted adj.
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1829 F. D. Hemans Valkyriur Song in Forest Sanctuary (ed. 2) 121 The Sea-king woke from the troubled sleep Of a vision-haunted night.
vision-seeing n.
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1827 E. B. Pusey Let. in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) I. vi. 131 A half-distracted, visionary and vision-seeing mystic.
vision-seeking n.
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1922 W. B. Yeats Trembling of Veil ii. xiv. 129 Politics, for a vision-seeking man, can be but half achievement.
vision-struck n.
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1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm 77 Whether the matter of Apparition be true or false, the Symptoms are the same..in the Person who is Vision-struck.
C2.
vision quest n. North American the attempt to achieve a vision traditionally undertaken by mature men of the Plains Indian peoples, usually through fasting or self-torture.
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1922 R. Benedict in Amer. Anthropologist 24 3 Three patterns of wide distribution are sometimes taken to characterize the vision quest of the Plains.
1966 D. Aberle Peyote Relig. among Navaho xx. 340 Anthropologists have been impressed by the similarities between peyotism and the Plains vision quest.
1971 E. Shorris Death of Great Spirit iv. 40 He is a Uwipi, a medicine man and practitioner of the traditional vision quest, and there is not a Sioux Indian within two hundred miles of Pine Ridge who does not regard him with a certain amount of awe.
vision splendid n. the dream of some glorious imagined time.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > pleasant or happy
summer dream?1793
vision splendid1807
1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 151 The Youth, who..still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended. View more context for this quotation
1895 A. B. Paterson Man from Snowy River (1896) 21 And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.
1959 X. Herbert Seven Emus x. 110 Such was his acting that he took in his audience along with himself, made them share his optimism, his vision splendid.
1972 I. Moffitt U-Jack Soc. xii. 199 I sat obediently and listened, and Sir Philip spread his vision splendid of electricity extended—with nuclear power.
vision-telephone n. = videophone n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of
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autophone1922
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viewphone1932
videophone1944
mobile phone1945
car phone1946
video telephone1947
speaker-phone1955
picture telephone1956
princess phone1959
touchtone telephone1961
touch-tone1962
touchtone phone1963
picture phone1964
Trimphone1965
princess telephone1966
vision-telephone1966
visiophone1971
princess1973
warbler1973
landline1977
cardphone1978
feature phone1979
smartphone1980
mobile1982
cell phone1983
Vodafone1984
cellular1985
mobile device1989
brick1990
satphone1991
celly1992
burner phone1996
keitai1998
burner2002
1966 Guardian 22 Dec. 3/3 The Post Office is exploring the possibility of..a vision-telephone for calls between individuals.
1969 New Scientist 16 Oct. 146/3 Big industrial concerns might..find vision telephones helpful for conferences between executives.
C3. (In sense 6.)
vision-mixer n. a person whose job is to switch from one camera to another in television broadcasting or recording.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > people involved in television production > others
production director1915
production manager1927
television engineer1930
production assistant1932
vision-mixer1938
TV engineer1946
lighting cameraman1947
floor manager1960
helmer1974
showrunner1989
1938 Times 7 Jan. 13/6 Behind him is the key-man, the vision-mixer.
1972 D. Lees Zodiac 30 Zodiac's director, vision mixers, audio~men and camera men were obviously tops.
1982 A. Road Doctor Who: Making of TV Series 45/2 To the director's..right [in the gallery] are the vision mixer, the producer..and..the technical manager.
vision-mixing n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > switching cameras
vision-mixing1935
1935 Illustr. London News 23 Feb. 307/1 (in figure) Vision control [of a television receiver].
1937 Discovery Nov. 330/1 The incoming vision signal..carries the time~sequence of light-and-shade in the original image.
1951 I. Asimov Stars like Dust (1958) i. 7 He jabbed at the vision control and the small screen was alive with light.
1953 S. W. Amos & D. C. Birkinshaw Television Engin. I. i. 17 The composite signal obtained by combining a picture with a synchronising signal is known as a vision [1957: video] signal.
1956 B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 59 This unit..has its own VHF sound and vision transmitters.
1960 Daily Tel. 17 June 13/4 The present [television] centre runs more than 100 vision and 400 sound circuits.
1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production xvi. 296 The television director is his own editor. He may himself carry out the mechanical operation of the video switching console (vision mixing desk), or have..a switcher (vision mixer), follow his instructions.
1979 Zarach & Morris Television Princ. & Pract. ii. 8 The signal from the camera, together with the synchronising pulses.., modulate the vision carrier.
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visionv.
/ˈvɪʒn/, U.S. /ˈvɪʒən/ 1.
a. transitive. To show as in a vision; to display to the eye or mind. Also with out.
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society > communication > manifestation > [verb (transitive)]
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1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K3v Euen as the age of goates is knowen by the knots on their hornes, so think the anger of God apparently visioned or showne vnto thee in the knitting of my browes.
1802 H. Martin Helen of Glenross III. 254 Should I return and behold the tomb you have affectingly visioned.
1887 H. R. Haggard She 192 Mankind asks ever of the skies to vision out what lies behind them.
b. To call up a vision of.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > a vision > experience visions [verb (transitive)] > cause to appear
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1902 Academy 25 Jan. 100/1 Those eyes, that hair, vision up Spanish princes.
2. To see as in a vision; to bring before the eye of the mind. Also with forth.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
thinkOE
bethinkc1175
devise1340
portraya1375
imagec1390
dreama1393
supposea1393
imaginea1398
conceive?a1425
fantasyc1430
purposea1513
to frame to oneselfa1529
'magine1530
imaginate1541
fancy1551
surmit?1577
surmise1586
conceit?1589
propose1594
ideate1610
project1612
figurea1616
forma1616
to call up1622
propound1634
edify1645
picture1668
create1679
fancify1748
depicture1775
vision1796
to conjure up1819
conjure1820
envisage1836
to dream up1837
visualize1863
envision1921
pre-visualize1969
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc viii. 135 We in the morning eyed the pleasant fields Vision'd before.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. i. 63 I too am his brother, though his face Was only vision'd sweetly in my soul.
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 47 That we may be able to vision forth the ministry of angels beside us.
1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. xiv. 256 Gentlemen of an unpractised imaginative capacity cannot vision for themselves exactly what they would.
3. intransitive. To take a view; to look.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look or behold
belookeOE
lookeOE
beseec1000
stareOE
showOE
beholdc1175
seec1225
heedc1275
witec1320
advisec1325
to see to ——a1375
rewarda1382
to cast an eye, glance, lookc1385
blush?a1400
glift?a1400
visea1400
considerc1400
vizy1513
regard1523
spectate1709
to have a see1839
look-see1862
vision1898
screw1905
shufti1943
to take (or have) a shufti1943
1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 6 Up that midway We vision for new ground.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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