im·age /ˈɪmɪdʒ/
1. an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
synset: image, mental_image
2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
3. 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"
synset: picture, image, icon, ikon
4. a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
synset: prototype, paradigm, epitome, image
5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
synset: trope, figure_of_speech, figure, image
6. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"
synset: double, image, look-alike
7. (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"
synset: image, range, range_of_a_function
8. 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"
synset: image
9. 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"
synset: effigy, image, simulacrum
1. render visible, as by means of MRI
synset: image
2. 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"
synset: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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