imagine

«imagine» in Mova's school dictionary: to picture something in your mind: imagine a purple cow — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (imagine, imagines, imagined, imagining)

meaning for a pupil

1) To imagine is to picture something in your mind: imagine a purple cow. tree →

2) To imagine is to think or guess that something is true: I imagine you are tired. tree →

3) To imagine something can mean to think you see or hear it when it is not real. tree →

sense in the lessons

picturing a scene, a different start, or one more thing («Imagine 3 bags with 4 apples in each»); in maths picturing a problem helps you choose the operation; in stories and art, imagination makes new worlds; in everyday life pretend play

examples

• Watch, count, and imagine. tree →
• Imagine 3 bags with 4 apples in each. tree →
• Imagine Tom gave away 2 of his 6 cars. tree →
• Imagine you are an astronaut on the Moon. tree →
• Close your eyes and imagine a quiet beach. tree →
• I imagine the shop is closed by now. tree →
• Did you hear a noise, or did I imagine it? tree →
• Can you imagine a world without cars? tree →

note

Picture the scene; the answer comes from the picture, not from single words. Noun «imagination»; adjective «imaginary» (not real). Trap: an imagined change does not change the real count.

In the corpora

• A tidy house helps buyers imagine living there and can sell faster or for more money.
• Before you tell a story about someone, imagine it is about you.
• Imagine walking through long grass and finding a spotted fawn lying perfectly still.
• Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, fighting with them in autumn and dropping them in winter.
• Imagine one piece of a snake's backbone bigger than your fist.

Trees and pragmatics

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