Envisage

Definition: Envisage

Envisage

Verb

1. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?".

Date "envisage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Synonyms: Envisage

Synonyms: conceive of (v), ideate (v), imagine (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Envisage

English words defined with "envisage": Envisaged, Envisaging. (references)

Specialty definitions using "envisage": planning engineer. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Envisage" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (considers).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Envisage (1977)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Turkey	Operators envisage a gradual six-year phase in period with initial flow capacity being 11.5 tons per year. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	What we envisage is a program of development based on the concepts of democratic fair-dealing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Envisage" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.30% of the time. "Envisage" is used about 401 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	80.3%	322	16,053
Lexical Verb (base form)	18.45%	74	38,813
Noun (singular)	1.25%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	401	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "envisage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shoh mu në sytë, përballoj (beard, breast, confront, cope, cope with, cover, face, front, outride, outstay, reckon with, stick out, stick to, wear, withstand), marr në sy (venture). (various references)

Arabic		‏تصور (be photographed, conceive, conception, fantasy, ideation, imagination, imagine, phantasy, picture, project, see, suppose, vision, visualization, visualize), ‏تخيل (conceive, dream up, fancy, feature, fiction, figure, figure to oneself, image, imagine, make believe, picture, project oneself, see, think, vision, visualization, visualize). (various references)

Bulgarian		виждам (behold, find, look up, make, open, perceive, see, see of, see through, sight), очаквам (abide, anticipate, apprehend, await, contemplate, expect, hope, wait, watch, ween), представям си (conceive, dream, fancy, figure to oneself, image, imagine, picture to oneself, represent to oneself, see, suppose, think), предвиждам (calculate, divine, forecast, foresee, intend, plan, previse, prevision, provide, provide for, second-guess, see beyond), имам предвид (allude, bear in mind, consider, consult, discount, intend, mean, refer, think of), излизам насреща. (various references)

Chinese		想象 (Envisaged, Envisaging, Fancied, Fancying, imagine, imagined, imaging, Imagining). (various references)

Czech		zkoumat co (follow up, inquire), zahrnovat (bombard, comprehend, comprise, contain, embody, embrace, encompass, imply, subsume), stát tváří v tvář, poèítat s (calculate on, count on, reckon with), představit si (fancy, imagine, see, think, visualize). (various references)

Danish		at overveje i naer fremtid et Videnskabeligt Forum (in the near future, to envisage). (various references)

Dutch		beschouwen (account, consider, contemplate, esteem, look at, regard, take into account, view). (various references)

Esperanto		kontempli (consider, contemplate, look at, regard, view). (various references)

Faeroese		eygfara (consider, contemplate, deem, look, look at, regard, view, watch). (various references)

Farsi		مواجه شدن با (Encounter, Nose), انتظارداشتن (Attend, Await, Expect, Hope), روبروشدن (Cross, Encounter), درنظرداشتن (Contemplate, Purpose), درذهن مجسم کردن . (various references)

Finnish		kaavailla (figure, forecast, outline). (various references)

French		envisager. (various references)

German		voraussehen (anticipate, bode, foreknow, foresee, to foreknow). (various references)

Greek		εικονίζω (image, picture, visualize), αντιμετωπίζω (breast, come up against, confront, cope, cope with, dare, encounter, face, face up to, front, tackle, weather), οραματίζομαι (vision, visualise, visualize), θεωρώ (assume, consider, contemplate, count, deem, judge, regard, repute, speculate, to approve beforehand, view). (various references)

Hebrew		לתאר לעצמו (fancy, figure to oneself, imagine), לעמו�" בפ� י (be faced with, confront, resist, stand up to), ל�"מין (imagine, picture). (various references)

Hungarian		elképzel (fancy, ideate, imagine, think out, to envisage, to figure, to imagine, to picture to oneself, to project, to project oneself into sg, to visualise, to visualize, visualize), elõre lát (anticipate, forecast, foresee, previse), elõirányoz (intend for). (various references)

Indonesian		mempertimbangkan (balance, consider, mull over, ponder), memandang (contemplate, gaze, view). (various references)

Italian		immaginare (conceive, fancy, figure, image, imagine, invent, picture, suppose, think, visualise, visualize). (various references)

Korean		상상하십시�" (imagine). (various references)

Manx		smooinaghtyn er (consider, contemplate, think about), fakin (behold, scenery, see, spot, view, witness). (various references)

Norwegian		forestille seg (imagine). (various references)

Pig Latin		envisageay

Portuguese		encarar (treat, view), subúrbios (outskirts, surroundings). (various references)

Romanian		privi în faţã, prevedea (anticipate, forecast, foreknow, foresee, gauge, look for, provide, provide that, stipulate), lua în considerare (consider, look at, mind, reck, respect, take into account). (various references)

Russian		предусматривать (allow for, envision, envisioning, reckon for). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		predočiti (point out, realize). (various references)

Spanish		ver (come on, consider, deem, eye, hear, lie back, look, look at, notice, regard, see, see into, try, view, watch, witness), representarse (picture), prever (anticipate, call for, forecast, foreknow, foreknowledge, foresee, foreshadow, previse, set down), formarse una idea de, concebir (conceive, form, shape). (various references)

Swedish		betrakta (account, consider, contemplate, esteem, eye, look at, look on, look upon, observe, regard, take into account, treat, view, watch). (various references)

Thai		พิจาร�"า (count, look, regard, see, study), คา�"การ�"์, จินตนาการ (conceit, fancy, feature, figure, imagination, imagine, see). (various references)

Turkish		kafasında canlandırmak (imagine, picture), göze almak (chance, face, face up to, risk, take the chance, venture), önceden düşünmek (discount, premeditate). (various references)

Ukranian		уявляти собі (envision, figure, ideate, imagine, prefigure, realize, see), передбачати (allow for, anticipate, apprehend, cover, divine, envision, forecast, foresee, presage, previse, prognosticate, provide), дивитися в обличчя. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
French	1500-Modern	envisager. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "envisage": envisaged, envisages. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Envisage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: envisa, envisag, envisager, envizage, evisage, invisage, Vernissage. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "envisage" (pronounced 'En*vis"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, Blindage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Burgage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Demorage, Disusage, Dockage, Domage, Doomage, Dosage, Drainage, Drayage, Driftage, Drownage, Dumpage, Eatage. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-n-s-v"
	-1 letter: avenges, genevas.
	-2 letters: agenes, avenge, easing, envies, ganevs, geneva, genies, givens, naives, navies, nieves, savine, saving, seeing, senega, signee, veenas, vegans, vegies, venges, visage.
	-3 letters: aegis, agene, anise, avens, eaves, evens, gains, ganev, genes, genie, given, gives, naevi, naive, naves, neves, nieve, savin, segni, seine, sengi, seven, siege, sieve, singe, vanes, vangs, veena.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-n-s-v"
	+1 letter: agentives, envisaged, envisages, negatives.
	+2 letters: evanescing, evangelism, evangelist, grapevines, grievances, leavenings, vernissage, villenages.
	+3 letters: designative, eigenvalues, evangelisms, evangelists, evangelizes, everlasting, investigate, shivareeing, vegetarians, vegetations, vernissages.
	+4 letters: asseverating, evangelicals, evangelistic, everlastings, eviscerating, investigated, investigates, negativeness, negativities, oversanguine, seronegative, unaggressive, venographies, vinaigrettes.
	+5 letters: aggrievements, augmentatives, eavesdropping, everlastingly, investigative, nonaggressive, overasserting, overmastering, overorganizes, overspreading, perseverating, reinvestigate, reinvigorates, revegetations, televangelism, televangelist, transgressive, vegetarianism.
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