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# imagination

«imagination» in Mova's school dictionary: **The ability to make pictures, ideas and stories in your…** — 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

noun (imagination, imaginations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The ability to make pictures, ideas and stories in your mind about things that are not real or not present. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#m1)

2) The ability to think of new and clever ideas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#m2)

3) Something that is only in your mind: «It's just your imagination». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school: creative writing, art and play need imagination; teachers say «use your imagination». In science imagination helps scientists think of ideas to test. «It's just your imagination» tells you a fear or idea is not real. Phrases: «use your imagination», «a vivid/lively imagination», «capture someone's imagination», «leave little to the imagination».

### examples

- Use your imagination to write a story about a dragon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#x1)
- She has a wonderful imagination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#x2)
- The noise in the dark was just my imagination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#x3)
- The book captured the children's imagination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#x4)
- With a bit of imagination, a box becomes a spaceship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#x5)
- Einstein said imagination is important for scientists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#x6)
- Children's imaginations are full of monsters and fairies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#x7)
- And this was enough to excite Jurgen's imagination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/#x8)

### note

Usually uncountable; countable when talking about several people's minds: «their imaginations». Verb: imagine; adjectives: imaginary (not real), imaginative (full of ideas) — do not mix them up.

### In the corpora

- [Paintings of history often mix fact, legend and the painter's imagination.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/15-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them/16/)
- ["Vivid imagination" on a report can mean the pupil tells fibs or daydreams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/11/)
- [Very young children still mix up wishing, pretending and what really happened, so their tall tales are imagination, not wicked lies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/17/)
- [Only children often fill the quiet with imagination.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/7/)
- [Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1225/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «imagination» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagination/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.