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image

noun

1 image

An iconic mental representation:
— Her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate.

synonym: mental image.

Roget 453: idea, notion, conception, thought, apprehension, impression, perception, image, eidolon [Gr.], sentiment, reflection, observation, consideration; abstract idea; ... show more

Dutch: beeltenis

2 image

Jungian psychology A personal facade that one presents to the world:
— A public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty.

synonym: persona.

3 image

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.

synonyms: icon, ikon, picture.

Roget 21: copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness.    image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, ... show more

Roget 554: representation, representment; imitation etc. 19; illustration, delineation, depictment; imagery, portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, ... show more

Roget 448: appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle, show, premonstration, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil [Fr.]; lookout, outlook, prospect, vista, ... show more

Dutch: afbeelding, figuur, illustratie, plaatje, portret, prent

4 image

A standard or typical example:
— He provided America with an image of the good father.

synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype.

Dutch: belichaming, personificatie, voorbeeld, toonbeeld, paradigma, productiemodel, produktiemodel, prototype
Polish: oryginał, autentyk, protoplasta, pierwowzór, prototyp, prawzór

5 image

Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.

synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope.

Roget 521: figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.], way of speaking, colloquialism.    phrase etc. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis; metonymy [Gramm.], ... show more

Dutch: manier van spreken, figuurlijke uitdrukking, stijlfiguur, beeldspraak, troop, trope
Polish: figura retoryczna

6 image

Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor):
— She's the very image of her mother.

synonyms: double, look-alike.

Roget 17: similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement etc. 23; analogy, analogicalness; correspondence, ... show more

Dutch: dubbelganger, evenbeeld
Polish: sobowtór

7 image

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.

synonyms: range, range of a function.

Dutch: beeld, beeldkopie, verspreidingsgebied, bereik, fornuis

8 image

The general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public.

Polish: wizerunek

9 image

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

synonyms: effigy, simulacrum.

Dutch: beeltenis
Polish: kukła

verb

1 image

Render visible, as by means of MRI.

2 image

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.

synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize.


Moby thesaurus: Doppelganger, Vorstellung, abstract, abstraction, adumbrate, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, allusion, ally, altarpiece, alter ego, analogon, analogue, angle, apparition, appearance, apprehension, archetypal pattern ... show more.

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