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imaginary English

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Definitions in simple English

imaginary

If something is imaginary, it is not real. It is only exists in a person's mind. Characters on films and television are imaginary people. If a number is imaginary, it is the square root of a negative number. Imaginary one is written as i.

imaginary

(= fanciful, notional) not based on fact; unreal the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties — F.D.Roosevelt a small child's imaginary friends to create a notional world for oneself (= complex number) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1

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Simple sentences

You say Nessie is an imaginary being, but I think she exists.
All the characters in this book are imaginary.
All the events described in this story are imaginary.
The dragon is an imaginary creature.
Dragons are imaginary animals.
Some scientists believe that the greenhouse effect is imaginary.
Every gadget is just imaginary before one makes it for the first time.
My daughter has an imaginary friend.
Tom told Mary about his imaginary friend.
Tom has an imaginary friend.
Mary has an imaginary friend.
All her imaginary happiness vanished in a moment.
Beyond what age is it unhealthy for a child to have imaginary friends?
Whether the characters in a book are real or completely imaginary, they can become your friends and companions.
Specular image holds an important place in Lakan's theory of the Imaginary.
Tom lives in an imaginary world.
Children sometimes have imaginary friends.
The Earth rotates on an imaginary axis which is tilted at a 23.5 degree angle.

Movie subtitles

I've been thinking. Perhaps Mike does believe in Santa, like as an imaginary friend, you know?
In Persia, the imaginary creatures depicted in the following picture were thus believed to be the cause of diseases.
I've always hoped that someday that imaginary girl. would turn out to be real.
They are now his imaginary enemies.
On your imaginary forces work.
Imaginary.
I proposed a scheme to confuse the imaginary Mr. Owen.
It almost becomes the real room and my own bedroom imaginary.
Like most other men there's always been an imaginary woman in my life.
The key was not imaginary.
I was carrying an imaginary valise, one of those pitchman's outfits.
And I hate you and your imaginary God, because you took her away from us.
And some of it spills over into mine, and makes it nicer, when I'm with you. And what're you gonna do all day. in this lovely, imaginary world?
But the mower, is he imaginary?
Only an imaginary one.
I've always hoped that someday that imaginary girl would turn out to be real.
I had to produce an imaginary inheritance to smoke this guy out.
Here's an imaginary dresser with the mirror and the makeup. The mirror and the makeup are important.
Either you're under eight cars looking for a spark plug or you're up here umpiring a tennis match between two imaginary players.
And what're you gonna do all day. in this lovely, imaginary world?
Both of them. It's not an imaginary tie, Doctor.
I submit, my lord, that it is entirely impossible to guess what went on in the mind of some entirely imaginary burglar.
YOUR PAINS ARE IMAGINARY.
Why in the world there is much to do and no time left to sick rich and imaginary.
Stay out of sick bay with minor or imaginary ailments, because the Marine Corps doesn't run to the Navy for pampering.
I, too, have loved imaginary women.
A man who's dreaming can only commit an imaginary murder.
Here's an imaginary dresser with the mirror and the makeup.
You make imaginary sacrifices for yourself, but it's other people's lives you really sacrifice.
And just because a silly girl. lost her head over some imaginary noises years before.
The legendary witch that rides on the imaginary broom?
Also imaginary.
Partly, but there are imaginary characters, plot, love.

News and current affairs

In 1952, Alan Turing--best known for his work on computation and the mind--proposed a mathematical model consisting of a pair of equations describing the reaction and diffusion of two imaginary chemicals.
But experimental biologists ask a different question: not whether organisms could grow as an imaginary model suggests, but whether they do.
Americanization, indeed, is carried by the promise of heightened imaginary self-realization for individuals who are freed from the bonds of social norms and cultural traditions.
Some nations do not feel threatened by imaginary insults to national dignity - for various historical reasons, they believe themselves to be superior to others.
There were no gas chambers, and arguably the motivation for Stalin's killings was not genocide, but rather the intimidation and suppression of real or imaginary opposition to his rule.
When an entire government appears on the make and on the take, people are easy prey for any demagogue who promises to replace the real vices of a sick democracy with the imaginary virtues of a sound dictatorship.
As our failures mount, we snarl and blame others, or construct imaginary plans for countering the great powers.
Joshua Greene, a philosophy graduate now working in psychology who has recently moved from Princeton University to Harvard, studied how people respond to a set of imaginary dilemmas.
This de-institutionalization has enabled Islam to move from being a local and national social bond to forging imaginary ties between all Muslims, everywhere, who feel oppressed or displaced.
In such a scenario, self-empowered minorities come to speak in the name of imaginary majorities - a populism of sorts, and, like all populism, driven by emotions more than by norms, let alone reasons.
Admittedly, there are tasks - word processing, for example - at which this imaginary computer would be no more useful than any one of its constituent computers operating independently.
When, during a simulation, I asked an imaginary guard to take away the detainee's chair, the instructor feigned being removed violently.
Britain's Tories appear on a suicidal march to isolating themselves in an imaginary little England.
A year ago, Chinese and Western intellectuals competed in dismissing popular interest in Tibet as a childlike confusion with the imaginary Shangri-la of the 1937 film Lost Horizon.
But he is imaginary, as are his victims.
That was Jinnah's dream, but the reality is that Pakistan has lived in high drama ever since its birth, often troubled by dark and imaginary historical shadows.
Visitors leave and continue their imaginary leftist lives with full refrigerators.
It involved a complex synthetic security that was derived from existing mortgage-backed securities by cloning them into imaginary units that mimicked the originals.
This is a clear demonstration of how derivatives and synthetic securities were used to create imaginary value out of thin air.
The danger is that we become so infected with the apocalyptic virus that we end up creating a real catastrophe - the meltdown of our economies and lifestyles - in order to avoid an imaginary one.
The history of the region's discord is a complex mix of ethnic, territorial, and existential fears, imaginary or real.
In order to secure peace on the home front, leaders will point to the enemies - real or imaginary - at the gate.
History, more imaginary than real, offers Maduro a score of additional examples.
An opposition party may voice aspirations, make promises, and even dream a little; but a government party cannot remain in some imaginary world or theoretical system.

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