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Image

noun

1.

An iconic mental representation. Synonym: mental image.

2.

(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world. Synonym: persona.

3.

A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface. Synonyms: icon, ikon, picture. "A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"

4.

A standard or typical example. Synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype. "He provided America with an image of the good father"

5.

Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope.

6.

Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor). Synonyms: double, look-alike. "She's the very image of her mother"

7.

(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined. Synonyms: range, range of a function.

8.

The general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public. "The company tried to project an altruistic image"

9.

A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture). Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum. "The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

verb

(past & past part. imaged; pres. part. imaging)

1.

Render visible, as by means of MRI.

2.

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind. Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize. "I can see what will happen" , "I can see a risk in this strategy"

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... flaine, Set ardent forth in his career, Urged to his task by Helen's fame, Resounding ever in his ear; To make his image to her beauty true, From the collected fair ...

— Poemata (William Cowper, trans.) • John Milton

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... lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, ...

— The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional • Father Chiniquy

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... of chivalry was associated a new and purer spirit of love, an inspired homage for genuine female worth, which was now revered as the acm of human excellence, and, maintained by religion itself under the image of a virgin mother, infused into all hearts a mysterious sense of the purity ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black

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... anachronism; for they convey images of cruelty and barbarism such as could not co-exist with the national civilization at that time; and whosoever has not corrected this false picture by an acquaintance with the English literature of that age, must necessarily image to himself a state of society as rude and uncultured as that which prevailed during the wars of York and Lancaster—i.e. about two centuries earlier. But those, with which I introduced this article, are still worse; because they involve an erroneous view of constitutional history, and a most ...

— The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas de Quincey

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... have seen what has happened to me, but you cannot understand how I feel. She looks exactly like me. It is that which makes the world eddy about me. I cannot get used to it. It is like seeing my own reflected image step from the mirror and walk about doing things. Two of us, Roger, two! If you saw her you would call her Georgian. And she says that she knows you, admires you! and she says it in my voice! I try to shut my ears, but I hear her saying it even when her lips do not move. She is as ...

— The Chief Legatee • Anna Katharine Green

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