image
Other forms: images; imaging; imaged
An image is a picture or other representation of a person or thing, or it can be someone's public perception, like a rock star who tries to change his image by dressing like a professor and learning to play chess.
Image has its roots in the Latin word imitari, meaning "to copy or imitate"; images are judged by how realistically they capture the person or thing they show. Images come in various forms — portraits, photographs, paintings, and sculptures. Another kind of image is what we think a public figure like a celebrity is "really like." For example, a flat-broke former millionaire who wants to maintain his image as the money-spending life of the party.
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a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface“a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them”types:bitmap, electronic imagean image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixelschiaroscuroa monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same colorcollage, montagea paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic imagefoil, transparencypicture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projectoriconographythe images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subjectinseta small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger onereflection, reflexionthe image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)echogram, sonograman image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organsgrisaillechiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of reliefIdentikit, Identikit picturea likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person soughtphotomontagea montage that uses photographic imagestype of:representationa creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
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a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)“the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone”synonyms: effigy, simulacrumtypes:Guyan effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Daybird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man, strawmanan effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seedsgolden calf(Old Testament) an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites to worship; destroyed by Moses; it is now used to refer to anything worshipped undeservedlyjossa Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idolJuggernauta crude idol of Krishnatype of:representationa creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
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someone who closely resembles another person (especially an actor)
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a standard or typical example
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the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
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(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
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render visible, as by means of MRI
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an iconic mental representation“her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate”synonyms: mental imagetypes:memory imagea mental image of something previously experiencedauditory imagea mental image that is similar to an auditory perceptionmemory picturea memory image that is similar to a visual perceptionafterimage, aftersensationan image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceasedtype of:internal representation, mental representation, representationa presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
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language used in a figurative or nonliteral sensesynonyms: figure, figure of speech, tropetypes:conceitan elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar thingsironya trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurskenninga compound word used as a conventional metaphorical name for something, specially in Old English and Old Norse poetrymetaphora figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similaritymetonymysubstituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')oxymoronconjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')similea figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')synecdochea figure of speech in which part of something is used to refer to or represent the whole thing (or vice versa)zeugmause of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only onesynesthesiaa figure of speech in which an author appeals to more than one of the five sensesdramatic irony(theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the playdead metaphor, frozen metaphora metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')mixed metaphora combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effectsynesthetic metaphora metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalitiesmetalepsissubstituting metonymy of one figurative sense for anothersyllepsisuse of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only oneverbal ironywhen the intended meaning of a speaker’s words contrasts with the literal meaningsituational ironywhen the result of an event or action is the opposite of what was intended or expectedtype of:rhetorical devicea use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
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imagine; conceive of; see in one's mindtype of:conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagineform a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
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(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined“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”synonyms: range, range of a functiontype of:set(mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
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