image
Plural: images
Noun
- an iconic mental representation
- "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
- "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
- a standard or typical example
- "he provided America with an image of the good father"
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- "she's the very image of her mother"
- (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"
- 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"
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"
- An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- A statue or idol.
- A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
- The value a function maps some argument to.
- The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- Show; appearance; cast.
Verb
Verb Forms: imaged, imaging, images
- To form a mental picture; to represent visually.
- render visible, as by means of MRI
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
- To reflect, mirror.
- To create an image of.
- To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
Examples
- I could IMAGE the perfect bingo word if only I had one more ’E’ tile.
- Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
- The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
- The image of this step function is the set of integers.
- The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.
Synonyms
double, effigy, envision, epitome, fancy, figure, figure of speech, icon, ikon, look-alike, mental image, paradigm, persona, picture, project, prototype, range, range of a function, see, simulacrum, trope, visualise, visualize, idea, value
Scrabble Score: 8
image: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordimage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
image: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary