Image
['ɪmɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public; 'although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry'; 'the company tried to project an altruistic image'.
(noun.) an iconic mental representation; 'her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate'.
(noun.) (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'.
(verb.) render visible, as by means of MRI.
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Definition
(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.
(n.) Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
(n.) Show; appearance; cast.
(n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
(n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
(v. t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Statue.[2]. Idol, object of worship.[3]. Likeness, effigy, figure, similitude, resemblance, picture, representation of an object (real or fancied).[4]. Trope, figurative expression.
v. a. [1]. Form an image of.[2]. Imagine, fancy, picture.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Statue, likeness, representation, effigy, copy, metaphor, idea, conception,fiction, shadow, picture, vision
ANT:Person, original, substance, subject, object, reality, truth, verity
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Definition
n. likeness: a statue: an idol: a representation in the mind an idea: a picture in the imagination: (optics) the figure of any object formed by rays of light.—v.t. to form an image of: to form a likeness of in the mind.—adj. Im′ageless having no image.—ns. Imagery (im′āj-ri or im′āj-er-i) the work of the imagination: mental pictures: figures of speech: (orig.) images in general; Im′age-wor′ship honour paid in worship to graven or painted representations of sacred persons or things.
Typist: Ruben
Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream that you see images, you will have poor success in business or love. To set up an image in your home, portends that you will be weak minded and easily led astray. Women should be careful of their reputation after a dream of this kind. If the images are ugly, you will have trouble in your home.
Typist: Louis
Examples
- The silver, being sensitive to the action of light, is there to record the image. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The result is a permanent image--a negative. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To anybody acquainted with the inhabitants of Egdon Heath the image would have suggested Eustacia Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Move the lens so that its distance from the candle is increased, and then find the image on a piece of paper. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Enough then of the perfect State, and of the man who bears its image--there is no difficulty in seeing how we shall describe him. Plato. The Republic.
- He was the hero of her imagination, the image carved by love in the unchanged texture of her heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To be sure, language itself may be regarded as image ry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Pretschi, have also successfully directed their attention to engraving the images of the camera, which has now obtained a high degree of perfection. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- She sank into the chair, and for a few moments sat like a statue, while images and emotions were hurrying upon her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But then, when the man commits burglary in order to break images which are not his own, that brings it away from the doctor and on to the policeman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Bits of old wood carvings from the pulpit, and panels from the chancel, and images from the organ-loft, said the clerk. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The reflectors were in some cases inclined to each other, and he remarked the circular arrangement of the images of a candle round a centre. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- No graven images could enter Jerusalem; even the Roman standards with their eagles had to stay outside. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For what is the memory but a faculty, by which we raise up the images of past perceptions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Nor did her angry dislike prevent Adrian from imaging my father, as he had said, the type of all that was gallant, amiable, and fascinating in man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I replied in a calm voice--but how far from calm was the thought imaged by my still words--Never! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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