Definitions for imagery
ˈɪm ɪdʒ ri, -ɪ dʒə riim·a·ge·ry

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagerynoun

   the ability to form mental images of things or events

   "he could still hear her in his imagination"

Wiktionary(4.20 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. imagerynoun

   The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.

2. imagerynoun

   Imitation work.

3. imagerynoun

   Images in general, or en masse.

4. imagerynoun

   Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

5. imagerynoun

   The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

6. imagerynoun

   Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Imagerynoun

   the work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass

   Etymology: [OE. imagerie, F. imagerie.]

2. Imagerynoun

   fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance

   Etymology: [OE. imagerie, F. imagerie.]

3. Imagerynoun

   the work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms

   Etymology: [OE. imagerie, F. imagerie.]

4. Imagerynoun

   rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse

   Etymology: [OE. imagerie, F. imagerie.]

Freebase(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Imagery

   Imagery, in a literary text, is an author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work. It appeals to human senses to deepen the reader's understanding of the work.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. imagery

   A likeness or presentation of any natural or man-made feature or related object or activity, and the positional data acquired at the same time the likeness or representation was acquired, including: products produced by space-based national intelligence reconnaissance systems; and likeness and presentations produced by satellites, airborne platforms, unmanned aerial vehicles, or other similar means (except that such term does not include handheld or clandestine photography taken by or on behalf of human intelligence collection organizations).

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1. imagery

   Song lyrics by imagery -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by imagery on the Lyrics.com website.

How to pronounce imagery?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say imagery in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of imagery in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of imagery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of imagery in a Sentence

1. Travis Lowe:

   I struggle to see the way that people can wave a banner of Christianity and still employ the language of violence, and even a lot of the imagery that I've seen used will reference Jesus as being a lion, a lion of the tribe of Judah, but one of the things that I recognize in the New Testament is that every time that we expect Jesus to show up as a lion, he shows up as a lamb.

2. Colin Collett Van Rooyen:

   There are over 80 islands that make up Vanuatu and on a good, sunny day outside of cyclone season it's difficult to get to many of them, until today, the weather has been particularly cloudy, so even the surveillance flights would have had some difficulty picking up good imagery.

3. Mouhad Reghif:

   This character has all the degrading attributes that black people are given in the racist imagery of our societies, it is totally racist and it maintains a degrading image of the black person, which has consequences in everyday life.

4. Larry Starr:

   It not only was a No. 1 song during Christmas of the year it was released, 1942, it was No. 1 next year in 1943. And it continued to show up on the bestseller charts for years afterwards, write a good secular holiday tune, one that is not limited by very specifically religious imagery in the words, and you might have a perennial hit.

5. Olivier Toupet:

   The helicopter is an extremely valuable asset for rover planning because it provides high-resolution imagery of the terrain we want to drive through, we can better assess the size of the dunes and where bedrock is poking out. That's great information for us ; it helps identify which areas may be traversable by the rover and whether certain high-value science targets are reachable.

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