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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#m1)

2) To imagine is to think or guess that something is true: I imagine you are tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#m2)

3) To imagine something can mean to think you see or hear it when it is not real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#x1)
- Imagine 3 bags with 4 apples in each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#x2)
- Imagine Tom gave away 2 of his 6 cars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#x3)
- Imagine you are an astronaut on the Moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#x4)
- Close your eyes and imagine a quiet beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#x5)
- I imagine the shop is closed by now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#x6)
- Did you hear a noise, or did I imagine it? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#x7)
- Can you imagine a world without cars? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imagine/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/10/)
- [Before you tell a story about someone, imagine it is about you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/15/)
- [Imagine walking through long grass and finding a spotted fawn lying perfectly still.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/3/)
- [Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, fighting with them in autumn and dropping them in winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer/0/)
- [Imagine one piece of a snake's backbone bigger than your fist.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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