image

[ im-ij ]

/ ˈɪm ɪdʒ /

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noun

a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.

an optical counterpart or appearance of an object, as is produced by reflection from a mirror, refraction by a lens, or the passage of luminous rays through a small aperture and their reception on a surface.

a mental representation; idea; conception.

Psychology. a mental representation of something previously perceived, in the absence of the original stimulus.

form; appearance; semblance: We are all created in God's image.

counterpart; copy: That child is the image of his mother.

a symbol; emblem.

the general or public perception of a company, public figure, etc., especially as achieved by careful calculation aimed at creating widespread goodwill.

a type; embodiment: Red-faced and angry, he was the image of frustration.

a description of something in speech or writing: Keats created some of the most beautiful images in the language.

Rhetoric. a figure of speech, especially a metaphor or a simile.

an idol or representation of a deity: They knelt down before graven images.

Mathematics. the point or set of points in the range corresponding to a designated point in the domain of a given function.

Archaic. an illusion or apparition.

verb (used with object), im·aged, im·ag·ing.

to picture or represent in the mind; imagine; conceive.

to make an image of; portray in sculpture, painting, etc.

to project (photographs, film, etc.) on a surface: Familiar scenes were imaged on the screen.

to reflect the likeness of; mirror.

to set forth in speech or writing; describe.

to symbolize; typify.

to resemble.

Informal. to create an image for (a company, public figure, etc.): The candidate had to be imaged before being put on the campaign trail.

to transform (data) into an exact replica in a different form, as changing digital data to pixels for display on a screen or representing a medical scan of a body part in digital form.

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Origin of image

1175–1225; (noun) Middle English < Old French image, imagene (-ene apparently construed as suffix) < Latin imāgin-, stem of imāgō a copy, likeness, equivalent to im- (cf. imitate) + -āgō noun suffix; (verb) Middle English: to form a mental picture < Old French imagier, derivative of image

SYNONYMS FOR image

1, 12. Image, icon, idol refer to material representations of persons or things. An image is a representation as in a statue or effigy, and is sometimes regarded as an object of worship: to set up an image of Apollo; an image of a saint. An icon, in the Greek or Eastern Orthodox Church, is a representation of Christ, an angel, or a saint, in painting, relief, mosaic, or the like: At least two icons are found in each church. An idol is an image, statue, or the like representing a deity and worshiped as such: a wooden idol; The heathen worship idols. It may be used figuratively: to make an idol of wealth. 2. likeness, figure, representation. 3. notion. 6. facsimile.

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ANTONYMS FOR image

6. original.

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Related forms

im·age·a·ble, adjectiveim·ag·er, nounpre·im·age, nounre·im·age, verb (used with object), re·im·aged, re·im·ag·ing.

un·im·aged, adjective

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Examples from the Web for image

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Of course, Kim Jong-Un takes an image hit as a Katy Perry-obsessed, margarita-drinking maniac with daddy issues.
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When his agent asked if he missed his wife, his mind flashed to an image of Alison.
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What image are you hoping people who pick up this book and read it, come away with?
Tim Howard’s Wall of Intensity|William O’Connor|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST

That thing we seemed to possess was not the other, but an image of them we formed—they themselves are still free.
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was discontented with himself and excited by the persistency with which the image of this woman haunted him.
His Excellency the Minister|Jules Claretie
But when he tried to hold and make fast the image it escaped him.
The Victorious Attitude|Orison Swett Marden
If a man was too poor to sacrifice a living animal, he offered an image of one made of bread.
Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions|T. W. Doane
The image of his child, I believe, saved him many times from folly, more than once from guilt.
Contraband|G. J. Whyte-Melville
His false prophet is either Antichrist or that image or figment of which we have spoken in the same place.
The City of God, Volume II|Aurelius Augustine

British Dictionary definitions for image

image

/ (ˈɪmɪdʒ) /

noun

a representation or likeness of a person or thing, esp in sculpture

an optically formed reproduction of an object, such as one formed by a lens or mirror

a person or thing that resembles another closely; double or copy

a mental representation or picture; idea produced by the imagination

the personality presented to the public by a person, organization, etca criminal charge is not good for a politician's image See also corporate image

the pattern of light that is focused on to the retina of the eye

psychol the mental experience of something that is not immediately present to the senses, often involving memorySee also imagery, body image, hypnagogic image

a personification of a specified quality; epitomethe image of good breeding

a mental picture or association of ideas evoked in a literary work, esp in poetry

a figure of speech, such as a simile or metaphor

maths

(of a point) the value of a function, f(x), corresponding to the point x
the range of a function

an obsolete word for apparition

verb (tr)

to picture in the mind; imagine

to make or reflect an image of

computing to project or display on a screen or visual display unit

to portray or describe

to be an example or epitome of; typify

Derived Formsimageable, adjectiveimageless, adjective

Word Origin for image

C13: from Old French imagene, from Latin imāgō copy, representation; related to Latin imitārī to imitate

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Word Origin and History for image

image

c.1200, "piece of statuary; artificial representation that looks like a person or thing," from Old French image "image, likeness; figure, drawing, portrait; reflection; statue," earlier imagene (11c.), from Latin imaginem (nominative imago) "copy, statue, picture," figuratively "idea, appearance," from stem of imitari "to copy, imitate" (see imitation).

Meaning "reflection in a mirror" is early 14c. The mental sense was in Latin, and appears in English late 14c. Sense of "public impression" is attested in isolated cases from 1908 but not in common use until its rise in the jargon of advertising and public relations, c.1958.

image

late 14c., "to form a mental picture," from Old French imagier, from image (see image (n.)). Related: Imaged; imaging.

Medicine definitions for image

image

[ ĭm′ĭj ]

n.

An optically formed duplicate or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction of an object formed by a lens or mirror.

A mental picture of something not real or present.

An exact copy of data in a computer file transferred to another medium.

v.

To make or produce a likeness of.

To picture something mentally; imagine.

To translate photographs or other pictures by computer into numbers that can be transmitted to a remote location and then reconverted into pictures by another computer.

To visualize something, as by magnetic resonance imaging.

Idioms and Phrases with image

image

see spitting image.

image

noun

verb (used with object), im·aged, im·ag·ing.

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