Definition of IMAGE

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 Word
image: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
image: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

image: valid Words With Friends Word