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Future vs Vision - What's the difference?

future | vision |

As nouns the difference between future and vision

is that future is the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced while vision is ghost.

As an adjective future

is having to do with or occurring in the future.

future

English

(wikipedia future)

Noun

  • The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
  • Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
  • Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future , however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
  • (finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.
  • Usage notes

    * (finance) The one who agrees to, at a future date, sell the commodity is considered to be selling the future; the other buys it. * (finance) A non-standardized contract to buy and sell in future is called forward or forward contract.

    Coordinate terms

    * (finance) forward

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having to do with or occurring in the future.
  • :
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • Derived terms

    * futurism * futurist * futuristic * retro future 1000 English basic words ----

    vision

    English

    (wikipedia vision)

    Noun

  • (label) The sense or ability of sight.
  • Something seen; an object perceived visually.
  • * 1610 , , I. ii. 270:
  • For to a vision so apparent rumour / Cannot be mute
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
  • , chapter=7, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!}}
  • (label) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
  • (label) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
  • (John Locke)
  • (label) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
  • (label) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.
  • (label) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
  • Synonyms

    * (ability) sight, eyesight, view, perception * (something imaginary) apparition, hallucination, mirage * (ideal or goal) dream, desire, aspiration, fantasy

    Derived terms

    * binocular vision * double vision * personal vision * prevision * visible * visibility * vision statement * visionary * visioner * visual

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To imagine something as if it were to be true.
  • To provide with a vision.
  • Synonyms

    * (imagine) envision

    Derived terms

    * envision * prevision

    Anagrams

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