Definitions of Image [ˈɪm ɪdʒ]

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Definition of 'Image'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) image
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.

2.  image
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.

3.  image
a mental representation; idea; conception.

4.  image
Psychol. a mental representation of something previously perceived, in the absence of the original stimulus.

5.  image
form; appearance; semblance:
created in God's image.

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

7.  image
a symbol; emblem.

8.  image
a general or public perception, as of a company, esp. when achieved by calculation aimed at creating goodwill.

9.  image
type; embodiment:
the image of frustration.

10.  image
a description of something in speech or writing.

11.  image
a figure of speech, esp. a metaphor or a simile.

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

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

14. (v.t.) image
to picture in the mind; imagine.

15.  image
to make an image of.

16.  image
to project (an image) on a surface.

17.  image
to reflect the likeness of; mirror.

18.  image
to describe in speech or writing.

19.  image
to symbolize; typify.

Etymology: (1175–1225; ME < OF image, imagene < L imāgō a copy, likeness)

Definition of 'Image'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) image, mental image
an iconic mental representation
"her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"

2. (noun) persona, image
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
"a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"

3. (noun) picture, image, icon, ikon
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
"they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"

4. (noun) prototype, paradigm, epitome, image
a standard or typical example
"he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"

5. (noun) trope, figure of speech, figure, image
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

6. (noun) double, image, look-alike
someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
"he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"

7. (noun) image, range, range of a function
(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"

8. (noun) image
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"

9. (verb) effigy, image, simulacrum
a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
"the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

10. (verb) image
render visible, as by means of MRI

11. (verb) visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
"I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"

Definition of 'Image'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) image
a picture or drawing
Download an image from the Internet.

2. image
an impression or opinion of sb or sth

3. image
public image
the way people in general think of sth or sb
attempts to alter his public image

Definition of 'Image'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Image
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

2. (noun) Image
hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol

3. (noun) Image
show; appearance; cast

4. (noun) Image
a representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea

5. (noun) Image
a picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor

6. (noun) Image
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

7. (verb) Image
to represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure

8. (verb) Image
to represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine

Translation of 'Image'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a likeness or copy of a person etc made of wood, stone etc images of the saints.
Afrikaans: beeld	Arabic: صورَه	Bulgarian: образ
Brazilian: imagem	Czech: socha	German: das Standbild
Danish: billede; forestilling	Greek: ομοίωμα, εικόνα, απεικόνι	Spanish: imagen
Estonian: kuju	Farsi: تندیس	Finnish: kuva
French: statue	Hebrew: תְּמוּנָה, צֶלֶם	Hindi: प्रतिरूप
Croatian: lik	Hungarian: kép	Indonesian: patung
Icelandic: (í)mynd, eftirlíking; lík	Italian: immagine	Japanese: 像
Korean: 조각상	Lithuanian: atvaizdas	Latvian: tēls; veidols; attēls
Malay: patung	Dutch: beeld	Norwegian: bilde, statue
Polish: wizerunek	Persian: تندیس	Pashto: تصوير، مجسمه، بت، شكل خيا
Portuguese: imagem	Romanian: reprezentare; imagine	Russian: изображение, образ
Slovak: socha, podoba	Slovenian: podoba	Serbian: slika
Swedish: avbild, beläte	Thai: รูปปั้น	Turkish: heykel, model
Taiwanese: 肖像	Ukrainian: зображення	Urdu: مجسمہ
Vietnamese: tượng	Chinese: 肖像
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