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Image

noun

1.

An iconic mental representation. Synonym: mental image.

2.

(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world. Synonym: persona.

3.

A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface. Synonyms: icon, ikon, picture. "A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"

4.

A standard or typical example. Synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype. "He provided America with an image of the good father"

5.

Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope.

6.

Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor). Synonyms: double, look-alike. "She's the very image of her mother"

7.

(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined. Synonyms: range, range of a function.

8.

The general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public. "The company tried to project an altruistic image"

9.

A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture). Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum. "The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

verb

(past & past part. imaged; pres. part. imaging)

1.

Render visible, as by means of MRI.

2.

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind. Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize. "I can see what will happen" , "I can see a risk in this strategy"

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"Image" Quotes from Famous Books

... over his shoulder, his white hand holding his lifted hat, and the wind-tossed curls of his handsome head, she turned away with a sigh. The Doctor drove rapidly to Maiden Lane and did not on the way speak a word; and Cornelia was glad of it. That image of her lover standing on the moving ship watching her with his heart in his eyes, filled her whole consciousness. Never would it be possible for her to forget it, or to put any other image in its place. She thanked her good angel for giving her such ...

— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr

... terrible simplicity of the fixed idea, for which there is also another name men pronounce with dread and aversion. His fixed idea was to save his girl from the man who had possessed himself of her (I use these words on purpose because the image they suggest was clearly in Mr. Smith's mind), possessed himself unfairly of her while he, the father, ...

— Chance • Joseph Conrad

... Hilma would take her place. He turned to the mirror of the sideboard, scrutinising his reflection with grim disfavour. After a moment, rubbing the roughened surface of his chin the wrong way, he muttered to his image in ...

— The Octopus • Frank Norris

... House, Stingaree quietly garroted him. A gag was in all readiness, likewise strips of coarse sheeting torn up for the purpose in the night. Black in the face, but with breath still in his body, the criminologist was carefully gagged and tied down to the bedstead, while his living image (at a casual glance) strolled with bent head, black sombrero, spectacles and frock-coat, first through the cold corridors and presently along ...

— Stingaree • E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

... distorted image of the moon floated dimly in the Pool, as though it had indeed been caught by the ...

— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche

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