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.

OTHER WORDS FOR image

2 likeness, figure, representation.

3 notion.

6 facsimile.

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6 original.

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Origin of image

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

synonym study 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.

OTHER WORDS FROM image

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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How to use image in a sentence

For the time being, the choices are limited to the ones mentioned above, plus some image-dependent suggestions like Portrait and Fix Brightness, but Google has said they’ll add more options for different kinds of images in the upcoming months.
Google Photos is better at image editing than you think|Harry Guinness|November 17, 2020|Popular-Science
Hoping to learn why, Painter and his team turned to satellite images collected from 2007 to 2016.
Surprising long-haul dust and tar are melting high glaciers|Sid Perkins|November 17, 2020|Science News For Students
Patches of color in each image highlighted which parts of the brain were getting the most blood.
Kids use more of the brain than adults do to process language|Diane Lincoln|November 13, 2020|Science News For Students
That’s because the AI has been trained on millions of images that have been labeled by humans with “cat.”
Podcast: Can you teach a machine common sense?|Anthony Green|November 11, 2020|MIT Technology Review

Drawing images and writing also turned on parts of the brain involved with learning.
Handwriting beats typing when it comes to taking class notes|Diane Lincoln|November 11, 2020|Science News For Students
But the most breathtaking aspects of the image are the rings and gaps in the disk, never imaged before in this much detail.
The Most Stunning View Ever of Planets Being Born|Matthew R. Francis|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But can even a personal, living, imaged God make twice two not be four?
Dream Tales and Prose Poems|Ivan Turgenev
The water of the lake must, in high storms, have thrown its spray over this imaged stone.
The Indian in his Wigwam|Henry R. Schoolcraft
Her view of the burgess English imaged a mighty monster behind bars, to whom we offer anything but our hand.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete|George Meredith
They are apparently imaged as mighty human beings possessed of magic powers.
Elements of Folk Psychology|Wilhelm Wundt
He glances at the vanity of human wishes imaged in himself, and he bids her farewell.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845|Various

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 forms of image

imageable, 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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