image
Nouns
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(n) an iconic mental representation
- her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
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(n) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
- a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty
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(n) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- they showed us the pictures of their wedding
- a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them
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(n) a standard or typical example
- he is the prototype of good breeding
- he provided America with an image of the good father
- (n) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense figure of speech, trope, figure,
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(n) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- he could be Gingrich's double
- she's the very image of her mother
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(n) (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
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(n) 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
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(n) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln
- the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone
Verbs
- (v) render visible, as by means of MRI
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(v) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- I can't see him on horseback!
- I can see what will happen
- I can see a risk in this strategy