image — English Dictionary

image
Pronunciations (5)
  • /ˈɪm.ɪd͡ʒ/
  • /ˈɪm.əd͡ʒ/
  • /ˈɘm.ɘd͡ʒ/
    Pronunciation notes
    • New-Zealand
  • /ɪ.meːd͡ʒ/
    Pronunciation notes
    • India
  • ˈɪmɪd͡ʒ

Noun

  1. A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.

    Examples

    The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

    More examples (3)

    The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.

    Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

    They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. […] Although classic science fiction films might wish you to believe otherwise, most insect eyes do not form a complete image in each facet.

  2. A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art. A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.

  3. A mental picture of something not real or not present.

    Examples
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    Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

  4. A statue or idol.

  5. A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)

    Examples

    Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

  6. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.

  7. The value a function maps some argument to.

    Examples

    The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.

  8. The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.

    Examples

    The image of this step function is the set of integers.

  9. A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.

  10. Show; appearance; cast.

    Usage
    • Obsolete
    Examples

    The face of things a frightful image bears.

  11. The collection of focus points of light rays coming from a given object.

Verb

  1. To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples
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    1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215, This Representation of the Terrors which must have attended the Conflict of two such mighty Powers as Jupiter and Neptune, whereby the Elements had been mix’d in Confusion, and the whole Frame of Nature endangered, is imaged in these few Lines with a Nobleness suitable to the Occasion.

    […] his behaviour was, as I had imaged to myself, solemnly devout.

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    […] he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely […]

    [The road] straggled onward into the mystery of a primeval forest. This hemmed it in so narrowly, and stood so black and dense on either side, and disclosed such imperfect glimpses of the sky above, that, to Hester’s mind, it imaged not amiss the moral wilderness in which she had so long been wandering.

    For example, in one use of content analysis, U.S. researchers Victoria Holden, William Holden, and Gary Davis (1997) examined the growing controversy over the racial imaging of indigenous peoples symbolized in sports team nicknames […]

  2. To reflect, mirror.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples
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    See’st thou yon river, whose translucent wave, Forth issuing from the darkness, windeth through The argent streets o’ th’ City, imaging The soft inversion of her tremulous Domes,

    Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born; imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose.

    […]we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own, imaging our own, but all unconscious of us; to whom we, for the time, are become as spirits and invisible!

  3. To create an image of.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples
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    The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.

    He added, in an email to CNN, that “the collection of increasingly large and well curated medical datasets has enabled AI tools to predict genetic mutations from imaging phenotypes reducing the burden of healthcare systems and improving the way we care for patients.” Phenotypes are observable characteristics.

  4. To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

    Usage
    • Transitive

Noun

  1. an iconic mental representation

    Synonyms
    Examples

    her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate

  2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

    Synonyms
    Examples

    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

    Broader terms
    Examples

    they showed us the pictures of their wedding

    a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them

  4. a standard or typical example

    Broader terms
    Examples

    he is the prototype of good breeding

    he provided America with an image of the good father

  5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

    Broader terms
  6. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

    Broader terms
    Examples

    he could be Gingrich's double

    she's the very image of her mother

  7. (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined

    Broader terms
    Examples

    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

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

    Broader terms
    Examples

    although her popular image was contrived, it served to inspire music and pageantry

    the company tried to project an altruistic image

  9. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

    Broader terms
    Examples

    the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln

    the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone

Verb

  1. render visible, as by means of MRI

    Broader terms
  2. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

    Examples

    I can't see him on horseback!

    I can see what will happen

    More examples (1)

    I can see a risk in this strategy

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