Imagine vs Listener - What's the difference?
imagine | listener |
To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
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, title= To believe in something created by one's own mind.
To assume.
To conjecture or guess.
To use one's imagination.
(obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
* Bible, Psalms lxii. 3
Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
* 1904 , :
* 1937 , (John Steinbeck), Of Mice and Men :
A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
As a verb imagine
is .As a noun listener is
someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.imagine
English
Verb
- In the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined . Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* imaginable * imaginal * imaginary * imagination * imaginativelistener
English
Noun
(en noun)- And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.