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Vision

Definition: Vision

Vision

Noun

1. A vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death".

2. The ability to see; the faculty of vision.

3. The perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light".

4. The power of imagination; "popular imagination created a world of demons".

5. A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vision" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Vision

DomainDefinition

Bible

Vision (Luke 1:22), a vivid apparition, not a dream (comp. Luke 24:23; Acts 26:19; 2 Cor. 12:1). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Computing

System which uses a digitised image from a video camera to provide a robot controller with information on parts location. Source: European Union. (references)

Medicine

The ability to see, and, sometimes, loosely, the acuity of vision. Source: European Union. (references)
 The appreciation of differences in the external world, resulting from the sensory impressions produced by radiation entering the eye. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang

Verb, noun. Source: Borrowed from common useage of word in English and integrated into speech community with their specifications of its meaning. Definition: To have an ended mind of what you want. To dream or have a goal for something. Context: Used in staff meetings, conferences and casual conversations. Social Source: Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Eye

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This article refers to the sight organ. For other usages of the word "eye", see Eye (disambiguation).

An eye is an organ which has evolved or may evolve (in the case of moles) for the purposes of detecting light - see blindness. The simplest eyes do nothing but detect whether the surroundings are light or dark. More complex eyes are used to provide the sense of vision.

Compound eyes are found among the arthropods (insects and kin), and are composed of many simple facets which give a pixelated image (not multiple images as is often believed).


Diagram of a human eye. Note that not all eyes have the same anatomy as a human eye.

Light from a distant object and light from a near object being brought to a focus


The human eye is said to be the window of the soul

In most vertebrates and some mollusks the eye works by projecting images onto a light-sensitive retina, where the light is detected and transmitted to the brain via the optic nerve. The eye is typically roughly spherical, filled with a transparent gel-like substance called the vitreous humour, with a focusing lens and often a muscle called the iris that controls how much light enters.

Focusing

In order for light rays to be brought to a focus they must be refracted. The amount of refraction required depends on the distance of the object which is being viewed. A distant object will require less bending of light than a nearer one. Most of the refraction occurs at the cornea which has a fixed curvature. The remainder of the required refraction occurs at the lens. The lens can be pulled flatter or rounder by muscles, which adjust the power of the lens.

Parts of the eye

Problems: See also:

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Vision

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The word vision can mean more than one thing:

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Vision (religion)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

(See also the article on one of the senses, vision.)

In religion, visions comprise inspirational renderings, generally of a future state, and may come from a deity, directly or via prophets, and serve to inspire or prod believers as part of a revelation or an epiphany.

Artistic inspiration may provide a special category of the ecstatic vision: traditionally in such cases the semi-divine Muses may transmit the visioning to their loyal followers.

Visions generally have more clarity than dreams, but traditionally fewer psychological connotations.

Certain hallucinogenic techniquess can traditionally assist in the divine-to-human communication of visions, and may also allegedly generate visions.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vision (religion)."

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Vision and prophecy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In literature, vision and prophecy are literary devices used to present a possible timeline of future events. They can be distinguished by vision referring to what an individual sees happen. The New Testament book of Revelation (Bible) thus uses vision as a literary device in this regard. It is also prophecy or prophetic literature when it is related by an individual in a sermon or other public forum.

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is also a significant utilizer of vision as a literary device. After Scrooge confronts the visions given to him by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, he asks whether the future he has seen can yet be changed. In other words, can he change the outcome of their prophecies? This question has also been handled by many science fiction works, particularly those dealing with time travel.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vision and prophecy."

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Visual perception

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

For the other meaning of the word "see", see episcopal see.

Vision or seeing is one of the senses, consisting of the ability to detect light and interpret (see) it as the perception known as sight or naked eye vision. Something is invisible if within one's line of sight; yet, unseen.

There is disagreement as to whether or not this constitutes one, two or even three distinct senses. Some people make a distinction between "black and white" vision and the perception of colour, and others point out that rod vision uses different physical detectors on the retina from cone vision. Some argue that the perception of depth also constitutes a sense, but others argue that this is really cognition (that is, post-sensory) function derived from having stereoscopic vision (two eyes) and is not a sensory perception as such.

The eye is the light-sensitive organ that performs the first stages of vision. The eye's retina performs the first stages of visual perception processing, with the remaining stages of visual perception occurring in the optic nerve and the visual cortex of the brain.

See also:

Reference: Rudolph Arnheim (1954). Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Visual perception."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Vision

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
VIMPEnglishVision based on-line inspection of manufactured partsN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Vision

Synonyms: imagination (n), imaginativeness (n), sight (n), visual modality (n), visual sensation (n), visual sense (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Vision

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Concealment

Behind the veil; beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil; hid from mortal vision; into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery.

Demon

Ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision; hobglobin, goblin, orc; wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures; evil eye.

Error

Heresy; (heterodoxy); hallucination; (insanity); false light; (fallacy of vision); dream; (fancy); fable; (untruth); bias; (misjudgment); misleading; Verb:

Hope

Castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne, le pot aut lait, Utopia, millennium; day dream, golden dream; dream of Alnaschar; airy hopes, fool's paradise; mirage; (fallacies of vision); fond hope.

Imagination

Visualize, envision, conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen.

Illusion; (error); phantom; (fallacy of vision); Fata Morgana; (ignis fatuus); vapor; (cloud); stretch of the imagination; (exaggeration); mythogenesis.

Conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare.

Unsubstantiality

Shadow; phantom;(fallacy of vision); dream; (imagination); ignis fatuus; (luminary); " such stuff as dreams are made of "; air, thin air, vapor; bubble; " baseless fabric of a vision "; mockery.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Vision

English words defined with "vision": achromatic visionbinocular visioncentral visiondaylight vision, Direct vision, distance visionfoveal visionIndirect visionmonocular visionnear visionperipheral vision, photopic visionReflected vision, Refracted visionstereoscopic visiontunnel vision. (references)
Specialty definitions using "vision": computer vision, cone visiondichromatic vision, dimness of visionhigh-level visionlow-level visionparafoveal vision, Peripheral vision loss, point visionsolid visionvision port, Vision Screening, Vision, Monocular. (references)
Etymologies containing "vision": Vitreous. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Vision" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (vision), French (look, outlook, see, seeing, view, vision), German (vision), Swedish (vision).

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Modern Usage: Vision

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an airplane, you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon? Atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right? Look, all I'm asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. You know, to just sit back for one minute and look at the big picture (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

A vision of perfection (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

The Dark Side has clouded their vision. Hundreds of senators are now under the influence of a Sith lord called Darth Sidious (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

Gentlemen, I have a vision. Your future (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino)

Mr. Reynolds, we are going to finsh this picture just the way I want it, because you cannot compromise an artist's vision! (Ed Wood; writing credit: Scott Alexander)

Lyrics

I had a vision of love (Vision of Love; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

And I'm beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis)

I see the sun breaking DOWN INTO dark clouds and a vision of you standing (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town)

I'm BDI, you could tell by the vision I use (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

I better check my vision (Can I Get Your Number(A Girl Like You); performing artist: No Authority)

Clever

Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be. (references; author: unknown)

1968: Passing the driver's test. 1998: Passing the vision test. (references; author: unknown)

Since I have smashed my denominational glasses, I have a better vision of who Christ is. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Golden Vision (1968)

Varia Vision (1965)

The Art of Vision (1965)

Democracy: The Vision Restored (1920)

The Vision of the Shepherd (1915)

Song Titles

Vision Of Love (performing artist: Mariah Carey)

They-Say Vision (performing artist: Res)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Vision

DomainTitle

References

  • Advanced Machine Vision Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Algo Vision Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Corporate Vision, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • BK Vision AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Insite Vision Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • A New Vision for Human Resources: Defining the Human Resources Function by Its Results (Crisp Management Library, 19) (reference)

  • Improve Your Eyesight : Vision Therapy Eye Exercises--Updates Bates Method (1 Hour & 30 Minute Video and Eye Chart Included) (reference)

  • The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy (reference)

  • The Vision of Piers Plowman: A Critical Edition of the B-Text Based on Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17 (Everyman's Library (Paper)) (reference)

  • The Impecunious House Restorer: Personal Vision and Historic Accuracy (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Art of Noise: Into Vision (reference)

  • Vision on Art: Pieter Brueghel the Elder - A Painter for All Time (reference)

  • Anathema: The Vision of a Dying Embrace (reference)

  • Caught Between Worlds - A Computer Animation Vision (reference)

  • Maya Lin : A Strong Clear Vision (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  • Night Owl Discovery Night Vision Monocular (reference)

  • Ott-Lite 13W Vision Saver Captiva Bed/Deskside Lamp (Matte Mocha Pearl) (reference)

  • HARMONIC VISION Music Ace 2 ( Windows / Macintosh ) (reference)

  • Ott-Lite L18336 Vision Saver Crane Lamp, 18-Watt (reference)

  • Nikon Night Search Night Vision Monocular (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Vision

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Photo Album: Vision

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This is Gordon Isaacs, the first patient treated with the linear accelerator (radiation therapy) for retinoblastoma in 1957. Gordon's right eye was removed January 11, 1957 because the cancer had spread. His left eye, however, had only a localized tumor that prompted Henry Kaplan to try to treat it with the electron beam. Gordon is now living in the east bay, and his vision in the left eye is normal. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Night Vision Goggles. Credit: NASA.

Stretching the Hubble telescope's vision farther across space and further back into time than ... Credit: NASA.

Pushing the limits of its powerful vision, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the ... Credit: NASA.

Vice Admiral H. Arnold Karo Expedition leader on OCEANOGRAPHER round the world cruise Karo was responsible for building the NOAA fleet of the 60's through early 90's Karo's vision was the multi-disciplinary ship OCEANOGRAPHER used for physical, geophysical, and meteorological oceanography. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Roman Vegetius' impractical vision of a leather helmet and umbilical for war. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Students try to perform an activity with simulated impaired vision. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

A questionnaire about how well a patient sees helps to determine how low vision affects a patient's quality of life. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Using an occluder, the patient covers one eye while reading with the uncovered eye. This test helps to measure reading vision. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

This booklet will help people make the most of their vision.

2 1/4 x 10. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Vision
 

"Drunk vision" by Peter Hamza
Commentary: "Looking through an empty glass."
"Night vision 6" by Myname Mylastname
Commentary: "Yop."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Vision

AuthorQuotation

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Author Unknown

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

Henry David Thoreau

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry Kissinger

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Joseph Edward Murphy

We go where our vision is.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Vision

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The scaffold is vision.

Absalom and Achitophel

John Dryden

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

But no vision of trim front gardens or of kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence upon him now.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface of things

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Vision

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Cloudy or blurry vision. (references)

Vision or hearing problems. (references)

Impaired vision or hearing. (references)

Business

Benpres has 62% equity in Sky Vision, which owns the brand "Sky Cable". (references)

Some 175,000 persons over the age of 16 require special vision aids in addition to regular spectacles. (references)

Many insiders blame the State's lack of vision and anemic financial support for the current state of affairs. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

An NGO reported that another brother, Rashid Bekzhon, lost vision in one eye as a result of torture. (references)

Cuba

The Government has used the government media and the schools to impose this vision on the public, particularly the youth. (references)

Congo

On March 16, security forces arrested La Vision newspaper journalist Kinyongo Saley for writing an article that accused Kakudji of profiting from the war. (references)

Economic History

Malaysia

The Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC) was formed to spearhead the development of the MSC as part of the Government's Vision 2020 agenda. (references)

Ireland

Sub-sectors include medical equipment, disposable and support products, interventional products, orthopaedics, implants, vision, dental and hearing products. (references)

Kenya

Stella Vision, a Nairobi-based private television network, in June 1996 started commercially broadcasting with an initial reception limited to a 20-mile radius. (references)

Human Rights

Chad

On May 19, two soldiers killed Jean Paul Kimtolnan, a sentry working for the nongovernmental organization (NGO) World Vision, in the southern city of Doba. (references)

Chad

They charged that he had used World Vision's resources to campaign on behalf of opposition candidates and to influence the local population in favor of these candidates; World Vision summarily denied these charges. (references)

Benin

In June a medical and dental delegation from a foreign nongovernmental organization (NGO) visited approximately 3,000 prisoners; they noted the prevalence of malaria, hypertension, and vision problems among the prison population. (references)

Political Economy

Sweden

Green Party - Has a basic vision of a society in ecological balance with nature. (references)

Panama

The hesitation is due, in part, to failed government promotion as well as a confusing, unclear GOP statement of economic objectives and vision. (references)

Travel

Chad

A third consulting firm, Tchad Vision 2000, represents De Chazal de Mie. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

Women in public spaces were required to wear a burqa, a loose, head-to-toe garment that has a small cloth screen for vision. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

World Vision estimated that there were 6.5 million children working. (references)

Indonesia

The State Bureau of Statistics (BPS) stated that 1.9 million children through age 14 were working in 1998. The ILO and the NGO World Vision argued that official estimates were too low, citing the fact that between 11 and 12 million school-age children (up to age 18) were not attending school, and a large number likely were involved in some form of work. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. He saw a ghost. It occupied -- that dismal thing! -- The path that he was following. Before he'd time to stop and fly, An earthquake trifled with the eye That saw a ghost. He fell as fall the early good; Unmoved that awful vision stood. The stars that danced before his ken He wildly brushed away, and then He saw a post. Jared Macphester Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of my own experience. There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Vision

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Bob Barker

Well I got up one morning and I realized that there was something wrong with my peripheral vision, and I got up very early and I thought, well, I'm going to call the doctor. I thought, he's not going to be open yet. I'll go work out.

Rush Limbaugh

Don't doubt for a minute that people like Clinton, Annan, Fuehrer Gerhardt Schroeder, and other Left-wing elites are trying to create their vision of a New World Order.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Vision

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Woodrow Wilson

1913-1921At last a vision has been vouchsafed us of our life as a whole.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961By their observance, an earth of peace may become not a vision but a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969A President does not shape a new and personal vision of America.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Government cannot solve our problems, it can't set our goals, it cannot define our vision.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Proverbs tell us, without a vision the people perish.

George Bush

1989-1993Fix your vision on a new century, your century, on dreams we cannot see, on the destiny that is yours and yours alone.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Guided by the ancient vision of a promised land, let us set our sights upon a land of new promise.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Vision

"Vision" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.15% of the time. "Vision" is used about 4,094 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.15%4,0592,424
Noun (proper)0.59%2471,196
Noun (common)0.27%11106,044
                    Total100.00%4,094N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Vision

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "vision".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
AhaziahN/ABiblical

Vision of the Lord

AhuzamN/ABiblical

Their taking or possessing vision

AreliN/ABiblical

The light or vision of God

IrN/ABiblical

Vision

JahaziahN/ABiblical

The vision of the Lord

JerielN/ABiblical

Vision of God

JeruelN/ABiblical

Vision of God

JerusalemN/ABiblical

Vision of peace

PenielN/ABiblical

Face or vision of God

PhanuelN/ABiblical

Face or vision of God

ReaiahN/ABiblical

Vision of the Lord

ReubenN/ABiblical

The vision of the son

TiberiasN/ABiblical

Good vision

RubenN/ADutch

The vision of the son

RubeN/AEnglish

The vision of the son

RubyN/AEnglish

The vision of the son

RuubenN/AFinnish

The vision of the son

ReuvenN/AJewish

The vision of the son

RubenN/AScandinavian

The vision of the son

RubénN/ASpanish

The vision of the son

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Vision

CountryNameCountryName
Australia

Vision Systems Limited

Belgium

ICOS Vision Systems Corp NV

France

Grand Vision

Germany

Isra Vision Systems AG

Hong Kong

Vision Century Corp. Ltd.

Japan

VISION OPT. Co., Ltd.

Sweden

Digital Vision AB

Switzerland

BK Vision AG

United Kingdom

Algo Vision Plc

USA

Advanced Machine Vision Corporation

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Vision

Expressions using "vision": a man of vision achromatic vision angle of vision arc of vision Beatific vision Binocular vision central vision chromatic vision color vision Color Vision Defects color vision deficiency colour vision colour vision deficiency computer vision cone vision daylight vision defect of vision dichromatic vision dimness of vision Direct vision distance vision double vision Ewing vision test chart fallacies of vision fallacy of vision false vision Field of vision foveal vision have double vision Indirect vision line of vision Low vision machine vision monochromatic vision monocular vision Mount Vision near vision night vision night vision aid night vision device Peripheral vision Peripheral vision loss photopic vision Pick vision point vision powers of vision range of vision red vision reflected vision refracted vision robotic vision scotopic vision sharpness of vision solid vision stereo vision stereoscopic vision true vision tunnel vision twilight vision vision defect Vision Disorders Vision Disparity Vision disturbances Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus vision mixer vision of the future vision port vision purple Vision Screening within our range of vision within range of vision within the range of vision. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "vision": vision-ghosts, vision-interpretation, Vision-of-hell-drug, vision-spirit, vision-spirits, vision-test, vision-thing, vision-ward, vision-wearing, vision-weaving.

Ending with "vision": Paw-o-vision, tunnel-vision.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vision

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vision

2,394

machine vision

197

night vision

1,277

home vision

195

pearle vision

1,066

night vision binoculars

184

world vision

659

vision care

184

pearl vision

559

vision fitness

178

vision quest

485

low vision

167

night vision goggles

460

new vision uganda

164

vision service plan

441

blurred vision

163

vision problem

411

cooper vision

162

davis vision

363

cole vision

162

ciba vision

359

wal mart vision center

160

vision correction

337

vision night club

154

vision statement

326

vision system

153

new vision

291

low vision aids

152

vision direct

278

cable vision

149

sound and vision

256

dental vision

147

vision insurance

247

night vision scope

146

uni vision

241

sprint pcs vision

145

double vision

235

eighteen vision

145

laser vision correction

225

vision electronics

143
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Vision

Language Translations for "vision"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vizion, vegim (daydreaming, dream, mirage, phantom), të pamë (run through, sight), shikim (eye, eyesight, eyewink, look, regard, sight, view), parashikim (anticipation, contemplation, dope, foreboding, forecast, foresight, precaution, prediction, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication), përfytyrim (fantasy, image, imagination, notion, phantasy, picture, reproduction), largpamësi (forecast, foresight, forethought). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حاسة البصر, ‏تصور (be photographed, conceive, conception, envisage, fantasy, ideation, imagination, imagine, phantasy, picture, project, see, suppose, visualization, visualize), ‏تخيل (conceive, dream up, envisage, fancy, feature, fiction, figure, figure to oneself, image, imagine, make believe, picture, project oneself, see, think, visualization, visualize), ‏طيف (ghost, idol, phantom, shade, shadow, spectrum, wraith), ‏الكشف عن الذات, ‏البصر (eyes, sight), ‏رؤية (seeing, sight, view, visibility), ‏رؤيا (dream), ‏شىء مرئي, ‏بصيرة (discernment, foresight, judgement, prevision, sagacity, sight). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гледка (outlook, prospect, scene, show, sight, view), въображение (fancy, fantasy, imagination, invention), видение (phantasm, wraith), откровение (eye opener, oracle, revelation), зрение (eyesight, seeing, sight), проникновение (discernment, insight, penetration, wisdom), привидение (boggard, eidolon, fetch, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shape, spectre, visitant), призрак (appearance, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, spirit, spook, wraith), поглед (blush, eye, eyewink, gaze, look, peek, regard, sight, view), далновидност (prescience, sagacity). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

视觉 (Ocular, Optic, Visual), 視力 , 眼光 , 目光 (sight, view). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vidina (pipe dream), vidìní (seeing), zrak (eye, eyesight, sight), zření, prozíravost (acumen, farsightedness, foresight, forethought, Providence, prudence, sagacity), přízrak (apparition, chimera, double, ghost, phantasm, phantom, spectre, spirit, wraith), jasnozřivost, iluze (illusion, mare's nest, pipe dream), fantazie (fancy, fantasy, imagination, phantasy, pipe dream). (various references)

   

Danish

  

vision (hallucination), synssans (visual sense), syn (appearance, aspect, look, sight, view), sceneanalyse (image interpretation, image understanding, machine vision, scene analysis, scene understanding). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

visioen, gezicht (expression, face, sight, view), droombeeld. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

vizio. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

sjón (show, spectacle), opinbering. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یانشان دادن(دررویا), منظره (Landscape, Object, Outlook, Perspective, Picture, Prospect, Scene, Scenery, Sight, Spectacle, View), وحی (Inspiration, Oracle, Revelation), تصور (Fancy, Idea, If, Image, Notion, Picture, Supposition), خیال (Design, Dump, Fancy, Fiction, Ghost, Humor, Idea, Ideology, Imaginary, Impression, Intention, Mind, Notion, Plan, Spectrum, Thought, Whim, Wraith), الهام (Apocalypse, Infusion, Inspiration, Prescience, Revelation, Sprite), رویا, دیدن (Behold, Coneive, Distinguish, Eye, Look, Notice, Observe, Perceive, See, Seeing, Sight, Twig, View), دید (Lookout, Perspective, Seeing, View, Viewpoint, Visibility), بیناءی (Eye, Perspective, Sight, Spectrum), بصیرت (Clairvoyance, Discretion, Foresight, Insight, Intuition). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

näky (sight). (various references)

   

French

  

vision (view), vue (view, vista). (various references)

   

German

  

Vision (hallucination), Sehkraft, Sehen (behold, glance, look, look at, see, see about, seeing, sight, spot, spy, to see, to spot, view, watch, witness), Gesicht (appearance, expression, face, look, sight, view), Erscheinung (apparition, appearance, aspect, emergence, figure, guise, manifestation, occurance, parameterization, phantom, phenomenon, sign, symptom, visitation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όραση (eyesight, sight), όραμα (phantom). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מאור עינים (eyesight), חלום (dream), חזיון (drama, phenomenon, revelation, sight, spectacle, visualization), חזון (prophecy, revelation), חזות (appearance, aspect, outlook), כושר ראיה, ראיה (evidence, looking, seeing, sight, testimony, visualization, witnesses). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

látomás (appearance, fantasy). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

wahyu (apocalypse, revelation), penglihatan (eyesight, sight), penampakan (appearance). (various references)

   

Italian

  

visione (apparition, show, sight, view), vista (eyesight, outlook, prospect, sight, spectacle, view, vista). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

幻像 (illusion, phantom), (dream, illusion, phantom), 夢想 (dream, reverie). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ビジョン , ヴィジョン , くうそう (daydream, fancy, fantasy, noncommissioned officer of the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces), しかく (assassin, blind spot, capabilities, dead space, qualifications, requirements, sense of sight, square, visual angle), まぼろし (dream, illusion, phantom), いしょう (alias, clothing, costume, design, dress, garment, nom de plume, outfit, pen name, pseudonym, strange phenomenon), むそう (a blank mind, dream, matchless, peerless, reverie, unparalleled), げんぞう (developing, illusion, original statue, phantom), げんえい (illusion, phantom), げんし (apparition, atom, capital, origin, original poem, phantom limb, primeval, principal, reduction of capital, silkworm egg sheet, stencil, strict order, thread for weaving, visual hallucination, your order). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

시각 (Visual). (various references)

   

Manx

  

reayrtys (aim, aspect, prospect, scene, scenery, survey, view, vista), ashlish (apocalypse, dream, illusion, make-believe, revelation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isionvay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

visão (eye, eyesight, intuition, point of view, shadow, sight). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

viziune, vis (chimera, dream, fancy, reverie), vedere (conception, eyesight, idea, outlook, prospect, seeing, sight, view, vista), vedenie (apparition, ghost, shape, wraith), spirit (apparition, crack, essence, genius, ghost, intellect, mind, quirk, score, shade, shadow, soul, spectre, spirit, spirituousness, sprite, wit), perspicacitate (acumen, flair, insight, perspicacity, sagacity), pãtrundere (acumen, acuteness, comprehensiveness, entrance, in-going, ingress, insight, intelligence, interpenetration, intromission, penetration, permeation, perspicacity, pervasion, understanding), apariţie (advent, apparition, appearance, arrival, birth, emergence, entry, ghost, issue, occurrence, peep, phantom, shape, sight, spectre). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

зрение (eyesight, sight). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

fradharc (eyesight, sight, view), aisling (a vision, dream). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vizija, vid (aspect, eyesight, sight), snoviđenje, moć vida, maštarija (dream, pipe dream). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

visión (picture, seeing, sight, view). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

syn (apparition, eye, eyesight, inspection, outlook, scene, show, sight, spectacle, view), vision. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vizyon, kuruntu (chimera, cobweb, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fears, hip, hypochondria, imagination, misgiving, phantasy, shyness, specter, spectre, the dismals, unfounded suspicion, vapor, vapour), ileriyi görme (prescience), hayal gibi görmek, hayal gücü (fantasy, imagination, imaginativeness, phantasy), hayal (bubble, castles in spain, castles in the air, day dream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy, illusion, illusiveness, imagination, phantasy, pink elephant, pipe dream, reflection, reverie, shadow, simulacrum, specter, spectre, waking dream), güzel kimse, görme gücü, görme (optical, seeing, sight, visual), görüntü ile ilgili, görülmeye değer şey, görüş (apprehension, argument, aspect, case, concept, conviction, estimation, eye, feeling, genius, horizon, idea, interest, notion, opinion, optical, outlook, position, sentiments, sight, thought, view, visual), önsezi (a hunch, foreboding, foresight, forethought, hunch, intuition, precognition, premonition, presage, prescience, presentiment, sixth sense). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

gцz (eye, glance), gцrью. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

уява (fancy, fantasy, imagination, thought, whimsey, whimsy), образ (character, depiction, eidolon, exemplar, image, imago, portrait, similitude), зір (eyesight, sight), проникнення (incision, incursion, ingress, insinuation, penetration, permeation, pervasion). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sức nhìn điều mơ thấy, sự sắc bén khôn ngoan về chính trị, sự nhìn (sight, view), cảnh mộng sự hiện hình yêu ma, bóng ma ảo tưởng, ảo mộng sức tưởng tượng, ảo cảnh (phantasmagoria), ảo ảnh. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

gweledigaeth. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Vision

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

somni, somnia, somnii, somnio, somniorum, somnium, spectrum, visa, visi, visio, visione, visionem, visiones, visionibus, visionis, visionum, viso, visu, visum, visus. (various references)

Avestan200-600

daenyå. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Vision

LanguageDateSourceActs Chapter 9, Verse 10
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintHn de tiV maqhthV en damaskw onomati ananiaV kai eipen proV auton o kurioV en oramati anania o de eipen idou egw kurie
Latin405VulgateErat autem quidam discipulus Damasci nomine Ananias et dixit ad illum in visu Dominus Anania at ille ait ecce ego Domine
Middle English1395WyclifAnd a disciple, Ananye bi name, was at Damask. And the Lord seide to hym in `a visioun, Ananye. And he seide, Lo!
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd ther was a certayne disciple at Damasco named Ananias and to him sayde the lorde in a vision: Ananias. And the he sayde: beholde I am here lorde.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
Basic English1964OgdenNow there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias! and he said, Here I am, Lord.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Vision

LanguageActs Chapter 9, Verse 10
AlbanianNë Damask ishte një dishepull me emër Anania, të cilit Zoti i tha në vegim: ''Anania!''. Dhe ai u përgjigj: ''Ja ku jam, Zot!''.
Cebuano¶ Ug didtoy usa ka tinun-an sa Damasco nga ginganlan si Ananias. Sa usa ka panan-awon ang Ginoo miingon kaniya, "Ananias!" Ug siya mitubag, "Ania ako, Ginoo."
CroatianU Damasku bijaše neki uèenik imenom Ananija. Njemu u viðenju reèe Gospodin: "Ananija!" On se odazva: "Evo me, Gospodine!"
DanishMen der var en Discipel i Damaskus, ved Navn Ananias, og Herren sagde til ham i et Syn: "Ananias!" Og han sagde: "Se, her er jeg, Herre!"
DutchEn er was een zeker discipel te Damaskus, met name Ananias; en de Heere zeide tot hem in een gezicht: Ananias! En hij zeide: Zie, hier ben ik, Heere!
FinnishJa Damaskossa oli eräs opetuslapsi, nimeltä Ananias. Hänelle Herra sanoi näyssä: "Ananias!" Hän vastasi: "Katso, tässä olen, Herra".
FrenchOr, il y avait à Damas un disciple nommé Ananias. Le Seigneur lui dit dans une vision: Ananias! Il répondit: Me voici, Seigneur!
GermanEs war aber ein Jünger zu Damaskus mit Namen Ananias; zu dem sprach der HERR im Gesicht: Ananias! Und er sprach: Hier bin ich, HERR.
Haitian Creole¶ Nan lavil Damas te gen yon disip ki te rele Ananyas. Seyè a parèt devan l' nan yon vizyon, li rele li: Ananyas. Ananyas reponn: Men mwen, Seyè.
HungarianVala pedig egy tanítvány Damaskusban, névszerint Ananiás, és monda annak az Úr látásban: Ananiás! Az pedig monda: Ímhol vagyok Uram!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariDi Damsyik ada seorang pengikut Tuhan Yesus bernama Ananias. Di dalam suatu penglihatan, Tuhan berbicara kepadanya. Tuhan berkata, "Ananias!" Ananias menjawab, "Saya, Tuhan."
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka di Damsyik ada seorang murid bernama Ananias. Maka sabda Tuhan kepadanya di dalam suatu penglihatan, "Hai Ananias!" Maka katanya, "Sahaya, Tuhan."
ItalianOra c'era a Damasco un discepolo di nome Anania e il Signore in una visione gli disse: «Anania!». Rispose: «Eccomi, Signore!».
Maori¶ Na i Ramahiku tetahi akonga, ko Anania te ingoa; ka mea te Ariki ki a ia, he kite, E Anania. Ka mea tera, Tenei ahau, e te Ariki.
NorwegianMen det var i Damaskus en disippel ved navn Ananias, og Herren sa til ham i et syn: Ananias! Han svarte: Her er jeg, Herre!
PortugueseOra, havia em Damasco certo discípulo chamado Ananias; e disse-lhe o Senhor em visão: Ananias! Respondeu ele: Eis-me aqui, Senhor.   
RumanianKn Damasc era un ucenic numit Anania. Domnul i -a zis kntr`o vedenie: ,,Anania!`` ,,Iatq-mq Doamne,`` a rqspuns el.
Russianч дБНБУЛЕ ВЩМ ПДЙО ХЮЕОЙЛ, ЙНЕОЕН бОБОЙС; Й зПУРПДШ Ч ЧЙДЕОЙЙ УЛБЪБМ ЕНХ: бОБОЙС! пО УЛБЪБМ: С, зПУРПДЙ.
Shuar¶ Nui Tamaskunam Yus-shuar Ananías ámiayi. Niin mesekranam Uunt Jesus Tímiayi "Ananíasa." Tutai "¿Warí wakeram, Uunta?" Tímiayi.
SwahiliBasi, huko Damasko kulikuwa na mfuasi mmoja aitwaye Anania. Bwana akamwambia katika maono, "Anania!" Anania akaitika, "Niko hapa, Bwana."
SwedishMen i Damaskus fanns en lärjunge vid namn Ananias. Till honom sade Herren i en syn: "Ananias!" Han svarade: "Här är jag, Herre."
Uma¶ Hi ngata Damsyik toe, ria hadua topetuku' Yesus, Ananias hanga' -na. Nto'u toe, mopangila-i. Hi rala pangila-na toe, Pue' Yesus mpokio' -i, na'uli': "Ananias!" Na'uli' Ananias: "Oi-a Pue'."

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vision

Derivations

Words beginning with "vision": visional, visionally, visionaries, visionariness, visionarinesses, visionary, visioned, visioning, visionless, visions. (additional references)

Words ending with "vision": division, envision, misdivision, pretelevision, prevision, provision, redivision, reprovision, revision, subdivision, supervision, television. (additional references)

Words containing "vision": divisional, divisionism, divisionisms, divisionist, divisionists, divisions, envisioned, envisioning, envisions, interdivisional, misdivisions, multidivisional, prerevisionist, prerevisionists, previsional, previsionary, previsioned, previsioning, previsions, provisional, provisionally, provisionals, provisionary, provisioned, provisioner, provisioners, provisioning, provisions, redivisions, reprovisioned, reprovisioning, reprovisions, revisionary, revisionism, revisionisms, revisionist, revisionists, revisions, subdivisions, supervisions, televisions. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Vision" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aisian, cision, dvision, Evysdon, ivesian, Iveston, Ivison, Tisio, Vaison, vasin, vation, vesion, Vezirov, vidicon, vilion, virion, visi, visia, visin, vising, visio, visior, visioun, vison, vission, visuan, vition, vizen, Voisin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vision"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "vision" (pronounced vi"zhun)
5v i" zh u ndivision, envision, provision, revision, supervision.
4-i" zh u ncircumcision, collision, decision, derision, excision, incision, indecision, misprision, precision, recision, rescission.
3-zh u nabrasion, allusion, aspersion, aversion, cohesion, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, corrosion, delusion, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, equation, erosion, evasion, exclusion, excursion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, implosion, inclusion, incursion, infusion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, lesion, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, perversion, preclusion, profusion, reversion, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, television, transfusion, version.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Vision

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-i-n-o-s-v"

-1 letter: vinos.

-2 letters: ions, nisi, vino.

-3 letters: ins, ion, nos, ons, sin, son, vis.

-4 letters: in, is, no, on, os, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "i-i-n-o-s-v"
 

+1 letter: violins, virions, visions.

 

+2 letters: avionics, division, envision, invasion, invoices, olivines, revision, vibrions, vidicons, vinosity, visional, visioned, visoring.

 

+3 letters: aviations, diluvions, diversion, divisions, envisions, evictions, invasions, inversion, invidious, mismoving, oblivions, pavilions, prevision, provision, revisions, synovitis, vibriones, violinist, viomycins, visionary, visioning, volitions.

 

+4 letters: bolivianos, bovinities, deviations, disavowing, disproving, dissolving, diversions, divisional, envisioned, estivation, evildoings, inventions, inversions, nonvirgins, novelising, novelistic, novitiates, obviations, olivenites, outgivings, previsions, privations, provisions, redivision, reinvasion, rhinovirus, salivation, television, valorising, vanitories, vaporising, variations, venosities, vermilions, vibrations, viewpoints, villainous, vinosities, violations, violinists, viraginous, visionally, visionless, visitation, vitiations, vocalising.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Derived from
16. Names: Company Usage
17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Translations: Ancient
21. Bible Trace
22. Abbreviations
23. Acronyms
24. Derivations
25. Rhymes
26. Anagrams
27. Bibliography


  

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