'Image' definitions:
Definition of 'image'
From: WordNet
noun
An iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" [syn: image, mental image]
noun
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" [syn: persona, image]
noun
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" [syn: picture, image, icon, ikon]
noun
A standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" [syn: prototype, paradigm, epitome, image]
noun
noun
Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" [syn: double, image, look-alike]
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" [syn: image, range, range of a function]
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
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" [syn: effigy, image, simulacrum]
verb
Render visible, as by means of MRI
verb
Definition of 'Image'
From: GCIDE
- Image \Im"age\ ([i^]m"[asl]j; 48), n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. See Imitate, and cf. Imagine.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Even like a stony image, cold and numb. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Whose is this image and superscription? --Matt. xxii. 20. [1913 Webster]
- This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- And God created man in his own image. --Gen. i. 27. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. --Ex. xx.
- 4, 5. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Show; appearance; cast. [1913 Webster]
- The face of things a frightful image bears. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea. [1913 Webster]
- Can we conceive Image of aught delightful, soft, or great? --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Rhet.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor. --Brande & C. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Opt.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- Electrical image. See under Electrical.
- Image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast.
- Image graver, Image maker, a sculptor.
- Image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves.
- Image Purkinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane.
- Virtual image (Optics), a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens. --Clerk Maxwell. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Image'
From: GCIDE
- Image \Im"age\ ([i^]m"[asl]j; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imaged ([i^]m"[asl]jd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Imaging.]
- 1. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. "Shrines of imaged saints." --J. Warton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine. [1913 Webster]
- Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'image'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- abstraction,
- adumbrate,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- allusion,
- ally,
- altarpiece,
- alter ego,
- analogon,
- analogue,
- angle,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- apprehension,
- archetypal pattern,
- archetype,
- artificiality,
- asiaticism,
- aspect,
- associate,
- badge,
- banner,
- black spot,
- block print,
- bloom,
- blooping,
- body forth,
- brother,
- call to mind,
- call up,
- cameo,
- cast,
- catalog,
- cataloging,
- certified copy,
- character,
- character sketch,
- characteristic,
- characterization,
- clone,
- close copy,
- close match,
- cognate,
- collage,
- color print,
- companion,
- complement,
- conceit,
- conceive,
- concept,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- configuration,
- congenator,
- congener,
- conjure up,
- contemplate,
- coordinate,
- copy,
- corporealization,
- correlate,
- correlative,
- correspondent,
- counterfeit,
- counterpart,
- cyclorama,
- daub,
- dead ringer,
- definition,
- delineate,
- delineation,
- demonstrate,
- depict,
- depiction,
- describe,
- description,
- details,
- device,
- differentia,
- diptych,
- Doppelganger,
- double,
- duplicate,
- earmark,
- ectype,
- effect,
- effigy,
- eidetic image,
- eidolon,
- embodiment,
- embody,
- engram,
- engraving,
- envisage,
- envisaging,
- envision,
- envisioning,
- epitome,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- essence,
- euphuism,
- evocation,
- exact likeness,
- exemplify,
- facade,
- facet,
- facsimile,
- fair copy,
- faithful copy,
- fake,
- false front,
- false image,
- false show,
- fancy,
- fantasy,
- fashion,
- father image,
- feature,
- feigned belief,
- fellow,
- fetish,
- figurative language,
- figurativeness,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- flare,
- floridity,
- flourish,
- flower,
- flowery style,
- foreshadow,
- forgery,
- form,
- fresco,
- fringe area,
- front,
- gestalt,
- ghost,
- glass,
- granulation,
- graphic account,
- graven image,
- grid,
- guise,
- hallmark,
- hard shadow,
- hypocrisy,
- icon,
- idea,
- idiosyncrasy,
- idol,
- idolum,
- ikon,
- illumination,
- illustrate,
- illustration,
- imagery,
- imagery study,
- imagine,
- imaging,
- imagism,
- imagistic poetry,
- imago,
- imitation,
- impersonate,
- impression,
- incarnate,
- incarnation,
- index,
- indicant,
- indicator,
- insignia,
- insincerity,
- intellectual object,
- interpret,
- itemization,
- just see,
- keynote,
- kindred spirit,
- lifelike image,
- light,
- like,
- likeness,
- limn,
- limning,
- lineaments,
- living image,
- living picture,
- look,
- look upon,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mark,
- match,
- mate,
- materialization,
- measure,
- memory,
- memory trace,
- memory-trace,
- mental image,
- mental impression,
- mental picture,
- mental representation,
- mere show,
- metaphor,
- miniature,
- mirage,
- mirror,
- mirroring,
- model,
- montage,
- mosaic,
- mould,
- multiple image,
- mural,
- near duplicate,
- noise,
- nonliterality,
- nonliteralness,
- note,
- notion,
- objectification,
- objectify,
- observation,
- obverse,
- opinion,
- ornament,
- panorama,
- parallel,
- particularization,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- peculiarity,
- pendant,
- perception,
- personate,
- personification,
- personify,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- phase,
- phasis,
- phasm,
- phenomenon,
- phony,
- photograph,
- picture,
- picture noise,
- picture shifts,
- picturing,
- poetic imagery,
- portrait,
- portraiture,
- portray,
- portrayal,
- prefigure,
- presence,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretypify,
- print,
- profile,
- project,
- property,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- purple passage,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rain,
- realize,
- recept,
- reciprocal,
- reference,
- reflect,
- reflection,
- regard,
- reification,
- render,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- replica,
- represent,
- representation,
- representative,
- reproduction,
- resemblance,
- respect,
- ringer,
- rolling,
- rubbing,
- scanning pattern,
- scintillation,
- sculpture,
- seal,
- second self,
- see,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sentiment,
- shade,
- shading,
- shadow,
- shadow forth,
- sham,
- shape,
- show,
- side,
- sigil,
- sign,
- signal,
- signature,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- sister,
- sketch,
- slant,
- snow,
- snowstorm,
- soul mate,
- speaking,
- specification,
- specter,
- spit,
- spit and image,
- spitting image,
- stained glass window,
- stamp,
- statue,
- stencil,
- still life,
- style,
- stylishness,
- such,
- suchlike,
- summon up,
- supposition,
- sure sign,
- symbol,
- symptom,
- tableau,
- tally,
- tapestry,
- telltale sign,
- the like of,
- the likes of,
- theory,
- thought,
- total effect,
- trace,
- tracing,
- trait,
- traumatic trace,
- triptych,
- trope,
- turn of expression,
- twin,
- twist,
- typical example,
- unconscious memory,
- unnaturalness,
- very image,
- very picture,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- vignette,
- vision,
- visual image,
- visualization,
- visualize,
- vivid description,
- Vorstellung,
- waking dream,
- wall painting,
- way of speaking,
- wildest dream,
- wise,
- word painting,
- word-painting,
- wraith
Words containing 'Image'
- Imageable,
- Imaged,
- Imager,
- Imaging,
- imagism,
- Electrical image,
- Graven image,
- Image Purkinje,
- Image breaker,
- Image graver,
- Image maker,
- Image worship,
- Moser's images,
- Virtual image,
- auditory image,
- electronic image,
- image compression,
- image orthicon,
- image scanner,
- imagination image,
- jealousy image of,
- memory image,
- mental image,
- mirror image,
- public image,
- spitting image,
- visual image,
- Double image micrometer,
- magnetic resonance imaging,
- thought-image,
- functional magnetic resonance imaging,
- mirror-image relation,
- blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging