Definition of image

noun (n)

• an iconic mental representation (noun.cognition)

  Synonym: mental image
  

  Example:
  Her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate.
  

  source: wordnet30
• (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world (noun.attribute)

  Synonym: persona
  

  Example:
  A public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: icon, ikon, picture
  

  Example:
  A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a standard or typical example (noun.cognition)

  Synonym: epitome, paradigm, prototype
  

  Example:
  He provided America with an image of the good father.
  

  source: wordnet30
• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense (noun.communication)

  Synonym: figure, figure of speech, trope
  

  source: wordnet30
• someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) (noun.person)

  Synonym: double, look-alike
  

  Example:
  She's the very image of her mother.
  

  source: wordnet30
• (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined (noun.group)

  Synonym: range, range of a function
  

  Example:
  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.
  

  source: wordnet30
• the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public (noun.attribute)

  Example:
  Although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry.
  The company tried to project an altruistic image.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: effigy, simulacrum
  

  Example:
  The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone.
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• render visible, as by means of MRI (verb.perception)

  source: wordnet30
• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind (verb.creation)

  Synonym: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize
  

  source: wordnet30
• To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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