VISION
\vˈɪʒən], \vˈɪʒən], \v_ˈɪ_ʒ_ə_n]\
Definitions of VISION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
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The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.
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That which is seen; an object of sight.
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Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.
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Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
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To see in a vision; to dream.
By Oddity Software
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The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
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The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.
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That which is seen; an object of sight.
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Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.
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Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
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To see in a vision; to dream.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of seeing; sense of sight; extent of power to see, physically or mentally; as, a man of broad vision; something seen, especially with the mind's eye; a supernatural appearance; spiritual perception of the actually unseen.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The act or sense of seeing: sight: anything seen: anything imagined to be seen: a divine revelation: an apparition: anything imaginary.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The sense of sight; act of seeing.
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Something seen; an apparition; dream; fantasy; specifically, an inspired revelation.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Act of seeing external objects; actual sight; —faculty of seeing; sight;—that which is seen ; an object of sight;—something imagined to be seen; a phantom; spectre ; supernatural appearance ; — a mental or optical delusion; — a dream ; something shown in a dream;—hence, something imaginary ; a creation of fancy; — in scripture, a revelation of God; some thing exhibited or presented to the minds of the prophets or other inspired writers while in a trance, and fitted to convey spiritual truths or to prefigure future events.
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