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Meaning of 'image' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Image [ n.]
- An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
- Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
- Show; appearance; cast.
- A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
- A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
- The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.
2 . Image [ v. t.]
- To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
- To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.

Meaning of 'image' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . image [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
Example in sentence:
  • a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them;
  • they showed us the pictures of their wedding
Meaning (2):
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
Example in sentence:
  • a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty
Meaning (3):
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
Example in sentence:
  • although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry;
  • the company tried to project an altruistic image
Meaning (4):
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
Example in sentence:
  • he could be Gingrich's double;
  • she's the very image of her mother
Meaning (5):
- a standard or typical example
Example in sentence:
  • he is the prototype of good breeding;
  • he provided America with an image of the good father
Meaning (6):
- an iconic mental representation
Example in sentence:
  • her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
Meaning (7):
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
Example in sentence:
  • the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln;
  • the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone
Meaning (8):
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
Example in sentence:
  • the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers
9 . image [ v]
Meaning (9):
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Example in sentence:
  • I can see a risk in this strategy;
  • I can see what will happen;
  • I can't see him on horseback!

Nearby Words:

imageable imaged imageless imager imagery imaginability imaginable imaginal imaginant imaginarily

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