Vision vs Ocular - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between vision and ocular

is that vision is the sense or ability of sight while ocular is the eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument.

As a verb vision

is to imagine something as if it were to be true.

As an adjective ocular is

of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight.

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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ocular

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight

Resembling the eye

Seen by, or seeing with, the eye; visual

* South

Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death.

Derived terms

* nonocular * ocularly * postocular * preocular * subocular * supraocular

Noun

(en noun)

The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument.

Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.

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