hallucinate

«hallucinate» in Mova's school dictionary: not really there, for example because of high fever… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (hallucinate, hallucinates, hallucinated, hallucinating)

meaning for a pupil

1) To see, hear or feel things that are not really there, for example because of high fever, illness, lack of sleep or drugs. tree →

2) (computing, informal) Of an AI chatbot: to make up facts that sound true but are false. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health lessons it is linked to fever, illness and the dangers of drugs. In science of the brain it shows that our senses can be fooled. In computing lessons, «AI hallucinates» means a chatbot invented an answer, so we must check facts. Phrases: start to hallucinate, the AI hallucinated a source.

examples

• With a very high fever, some people hallucinate. tree →
• The lost explorer was so thirsty he hallucinated a lake. tree →
• After three nights without sleep, he began to hallucinate. tree →
• The chatbot hallucinated a book that doesn't exist. tree →
• Am I hallucinating, or is that a kangaroo in the garden? tree →
• Drugs can make people hallucinate and are dangerous. tree →

note

Pronounced huh-LOO-si-nate. Noun: hallucination. Spelling: double l, one c. Seeing a mirage in the desert is a real light effect, not always a hallucination. Always tell an adult if someone is seeing things that are not there.

In the corpora

• Bots can hallucinate facts, so every fact in a project must be checked; no volcano has erupted in London.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hallucinate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.