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Envisioned

Definition: Envisioned

Envisioned

Adjective

1. Seen in the mind as a mental image; "the glory of his envisioned future"; "the snow-covered Alps pictured in her imagination"; "the visualized scene lacked the ugly details of real life".

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

 

Synonyms: Envisioned

Synonyms: pictured (adj), visualised (adj), visualized (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Envisioned

English words defined with "envisioned": picturedvisualised, visualized. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Envisioned

DomainTitle

Books

  • Don't Be a Spin Sucker: What You Need to Know to Restore the Republic Our Founding Fathers Envisioned (reference)

  • Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Envisioned

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Other free trade zones are envisioned in other SEZs and open cities in China. (references)

Envisioned as the centerpiece of this capability will be the establishment of an air reaction component with the flexibility to tailor forces to any situation. (references)

Foreign companies that are interested in competing in the defense field in Korea should work to not only understand the intricacies of this acquisition system, but also must be aware that more changes in the process are envisioned for the near future. (references)

Economic History

Guatemala

Many workers, especially in agriculture, do not receive the full compensation package envisioned in the labor law. (references)

Slovenia

Numerous cooperative projects are either underway or envisioned, and bilateral and multilateral partnerships are deepening. (references)

Tanzania

He envisioned the party as a "two-way street" for the flow of ideas and policy directives between the village level and the government. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

The Commission was originally envisioned as an independent foundation by the Historical Clarification Commission to oversee the implementation of the Peace Accords. (references)

Political Economy

Cameroon

The 1996 Constitution lengthened the President's term of office to 7 years, while continuing to allow Biya to run for a fourth consecutive term in 1997 and making him eligible to run for one more 7-year term in 2004. In 2000 the Government began discussion on an action plan to create the decentralized institutions envisioned in the 1996 Constitution, such as a partially elected senate, elected regional councils, and a more independent judiciary; however, none of the plans had been executed by year's end. (references)

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

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Speeches: Envisioned

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989This administration has faith in state and local governments and the constitutional balance envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Envisioned

"Envisioned" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 45.00% of the time. "Envisioned" is used about 20 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
Lexical Verb (past participle)45%9117,287
Lexical Verb (past tense)45%9117,287
Adjective (general or positive)10%2245,945
                    Total100.00%20N/A

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

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Modern Translations: Envisioned

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

Chinese 

  

构想 (Conception, Devise, Devised, Devising, envision, envisioning). (various references)

   

German

  

vergegenwärtigte (brought to mind). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

계획하" (Planned, Projected, scheduled). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

envisioneday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Envisioned

Misspellings

"Envisioned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: envisione. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Envisioned"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "envisioned" (pronounced envi"zhund)
4-zh u n ddisillusioned, occasioned.
3-u n dabandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened.

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

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Anagrams: Envisioned

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: envision, nosedive, visioned.

-3 letters: deveins, divines, donnees, endives, indenes, iodines, ionised, venines, venison.

-4 letters: denies, devein, devise, devons, dienes, divine, donees, donnee, donsie, dovens, endive, envied, envies, envois, eosine, indene, indies, inions, inside, iodine, iodins, iodise, ionise, neoned, nevoid, nieves, noised, onside, ovines, seined, sieved, sinned, veined, venine, venins, venose, videos, viseed, vision.

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

+3 letters: denominatives, nondeliveries, nondispersive, overdesigning.

 

+4 letters: nonderivatives, nondescriptive, nondiversified.

 

+5 letters: invidiousnesses, novemdecillions.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Envisioned


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 76 69 73 69 6F 6E 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -.    ...-    ..    ...    ..    ---    -.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01110110 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#118 &#105 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0076 0069 0073 0069 006F 006E 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39808875857581807170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Quotations: Speeches
7. Usage Frequency
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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