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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Vision \Vi"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Visioned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Visioning}.] To see in a vision; to dream. [1913 Webster] For them no visioned terrors daunt, Their nights no fancied specters haunt. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Vision \Vi"sion\, n. [OE. visioun, F. vision, fr. L. visio, from videre, visum, to see: akin to Gr. ? to see, ? I know, and E. wit. See {Wit}, v., and cf. {Advice}, {Clairvoyant}, {Envy}, {Evident}, {Provide}, {Revise}, {Survey}, {View}, {Visage}, {Visit}.] 1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight. [1913 Webster] Faith here is turned into vision there. --Hammond. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physiol.) 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. [1913 Webster] 3. That which is seen; an object of sight. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. 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. [1913 Webster] The baseless fabric of this vision. --Shak. [1913 Webster] No dreams, but visions strange. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] 5. Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy. --Locke. [1913 Webster] {Arc of vision} (Astron.), the arc which measures the least distance from the sun at which, when the sun is below the horizon, a star or planet emerging from his rays becomes visible. {Beatific vision} (Theol.), the immediate sight of God in heaven. {Direct vision} (Opt.), vision when the image of the object falls directly on the yellow spot (see under {Yellow}); also, vision by means of rays which are not deviated from their original direction. {Field of vision}, field of view. See under {Field}. {Indirect vision} (Opt.), vision when the rays of light from an object fall upon the peripheral parts of the retina. {Reflected vision}, or {Refracted vision}, vision by rays reflected from mirrors, or refracted by lenses or prisms, respectively. {Vision purple}. (Physiol.) See {Visual purple}, under {Visual}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: vision n 1: a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death" 2: the ability to see; the visual faculty [syn: {sight}, {vision}, {visual sense}, {visual modality}] 3: the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" [syn: {vision}, {visual sensation}] 4: the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" [syn: {imagination}, {imaginativeness}, {vision}] 5: a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary" From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: vision /vizjɔ̃/ vision From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Vision /viːziːoːn/ vision