im·age | \ ˈi-mij 
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\Definition of image
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a : a visual representation of something: such as
(1) : a likeness of an object produced on a photographic material
(2) : a picture produced on an electronic display (such as a television or computer screen)
b : the optical counterpart of an object produced by an optical device (such as a lens or mirror) or an electronic device
2a(1) : a mental picture or impression of something
had a negative body image of herself
(2) : a mental conception held in common by members of a group and symbolic of a basic attitude and orientation
a disorderly courtroom can seriously tarnish a community's image of justice— Herbert Brownell
3 : a popular conception (as of a person, institution, or nation) projected especially through the mass media
promoting a corporate image of brotherly love and concern— R. C. Buck
4a : exact likeness : semblance God created man in his own image — Genesis 1:27 (Revised Standard Version)
b : a person strikingly like another person
she is the image of her mother
5a : a tangible or visible representation : incarnation the image of filial devotion
6 : a vivid or graphic representation or description
7 : a reproduction or imitation of the form of a person or thing especially : an imitation in solid form : statue
8 : figure of speech
9 : a set of values given by a mathematical function (such as a homomorphism) that corresponds to a particular subset of the domain
image
verbimaged; imaging
Definition of image (Entry 2 of 2)
1a : to create a representation of also : to form an image of imaged Jupiter's rings image the bone using X-rays
b : to represent symbolically
2 : to call up a mental picture of : imagine
3 : to describe or portray in language especially in a vivid manner
5 : to make a disk image of
Many computer forensics programs now include the option of imaging a suspect drive.— Yvonne Jewkes
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Other Words from image
Verb
imager \ ˈi-mi-jər \ noun
\ nounSynonyms for image
Synonyms: Noun
- alter ego,
- carbon,
- carbon copy,
- clone,
- counterpart,
- doppelgänger
- (or doppelganger),
- double,
- duplicate,
- duplication,
- facsimile,
- fetch,
- likeness,
- look-alike,
- match,
- mirror image,
- picture,
- replica,
- ringer,
- spit,
- spitting image,
- twin
Synonyms: Verb
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Examples of image in a Sentence
Noun
She studied her image in the mirror.
The kids sat staring at the images on the TV screen.
painters capturing images of war
black-and-white images of the city
His poem evokes images of the sea and warm summer days.
He is trying hard to improve his image.
The law suit has negatively affected the company's public image.
a politician who cares more about image than about telling the truth Verb
in the painting Sacagawea is imaged as an intrepid woman pointing the way for Lewis and Clark
the brochure images a vacation at the resort in language that makes you want to make a reservation this instant
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Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The feature is still digitally cropping the image and enhancing it, though the processing has improved this year, and a new Zoom Lock will keep distant objects locked in the frame.
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Julian Chokkattu, Wired, "Everything Samsung Announced at Its 2021 'Unpacked' Event," 14 Jan. 2021 Photographs of these events, published in newspapers around the world, helped popularize the image of a vaccine in high demand.
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Brit Trogen, The Atlantic, "Go Ahead, Share Your Vaccine Selfie," 14 Jan. 2021 Paper tax returns and correspondence from taxpayers sat unopened in trailers in U.S. Postal Service parking lots for months while IRS offices were closed, an arresting image of an antiquated government function the virus had hobbled.
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Author: Lisa Rein, Anchorage Daily News, "Refunds and stimulus payments are still piled up at the IRS, and this year may be just as bad, new report says," 13 Jan. 2021 Dame Joan Collins, known for her work in English soap opera Dynasty, shared an image of her receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on January 10.
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Gabrielle Sanchez, Vulture, "All the Celebrities Who Have Received the COVID-19 Vaccine," 13 Jan. 2021 The Times sent an image to the Metropolitan Police Department of one of the officers whose helmet number is clearly visible on video.
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Evan Hill, Star Tribune, "'They got a officer!': How a mob dragged and beat police at the Capitol," 12 Jan. 2021 The image of a new regime riding on the wrongs of past leaders to capture power by armed insurrection in the interests of the people is now a distant memory.
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Geoffrey Ssenoga, Quartz Africa, "Social media gave a voice to democracy in Uganda so the government shut it down—again," 12 Jan. 2021 The website now just displays an image of Timken, who has announced plans to lead the party through the 2022 election.
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Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, "After violent Capitol riot, cracks in Ohio GOP support for Trump start to appear," 12 Jan. 2021 This lets mobile devices easily send a wide range of data types, including video, image, speech and text.
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Bhaskar Krishnamachari, The Conversation, "How does Wi-Fi work? An electrical engineer explains," 12 Jan. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb During the 10-year survey, the camera is expected to image 20 billion galaxies.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, "3 missions prepare to explore Mars and other space news to expect in 2021," 3 Jan. 2021 Next, researchers want to image less rigid proteins.
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Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, "The science stories likely to make headlines in 2021," 31 Dec. 2020 The US Food and Drug Administration in May approved flortaucipir, or AV-1451, as the first drug used to image the presence of tau tangles.
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Sandee Lamotte, CNN, "Key 2020 health stories you may have missed because of Covid-19," 28 Dec. 2020 The radars image approximately 700 kilometers at a time.
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Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "The Weird Trick That Lets Amateurs Detect Warships at Sea," 11 Dec. 2020 And so, truth in advertising requires me to tell you the Event Horizon Telescope did not actually image the event horizon of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87, but rather the light from much farther out.
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Avi Loeb, Scientific American, "Black Hole Are Finally Trending," 7 Nov. 2020 This makes the sensor large enough to image a part of the sky that is equal to 40 full moons.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, "The world's largest digital camera could unlock mysteries of the universe," 8 Sep. 2020 To get a better handle on what salvia is doing in the brain, in future studies Doss would want to image the brains of individuals on salvia at multiple doses—and cross reference those patterns to the ways their brains behave on classic psychedelics.
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Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, "This Is My Brain on Salvia," 14 Oct. 2020 Moreover, there would be satellites in orbit around Mars to image the landing site.
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Eric Berger, Ars Technica, "Netflix’s Away splendidly brings a humans-to-Mars mission to life," 19 Sep. 2020
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More Definitions for image
image
nounEnglish Language Learners Definition of image
: a picture that is produced by a camera, artist, mirror, etc.
: a mental picture : the thought of how something looks or might look
: the idea that people have about someone or something
See the full definition for image in the English Language Learners Dictionary
image
nounim·age | \ ˈi-mij \
\Kids Definition of image
1 : a picture or reflection of something produced by a device (as a mirror or lens)
We watched the images on the screen.
2 : someone who looks very much like another
She is the image of her mother.
3 : the thought of how something looks
An image appeared in his head of his parents hugging each other and crying.— Louis Sachar, Holes
4 : a representation (as a picture or statue) of something
5 : an idea of what someone or something is like
He has an image as a troublemaker.
image
nounim·age | \ ˈim-ij \
\Medical Definition of image
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a : the optical counterpart of an object produced by an optical device (as a lens or mirror) or an electronic device — see real image, virtual image
b : a likeness of an object produced on a photographic material
2 : a mental picture or impression of something
had a negative body image of herself : as
a(1) : a mental conception held in common by members of a group and symbolic of a basic attitude and orientation
the compassionate small-town family doctor, an image that the AMA deeply admires — Current Biography
(2) : an idealized conception of a person and especially a parent that is formed by an infant or child, is retained in the unconscious, and influences behavior in later life
the overwhelming influence of the mother image— John Messenger
— called also imago
b : the memory of a perception in psychology that is modified by subsequent experience also : the representation of the source of a stimulus on a receptor mechanism
image
verbimaged; imaging
Medical Definition of image (Entry 2 of 2)
1 : to call up a mental picture of : imagine
2 : to create a representation of also : to form an image of the liver was imaged the animals were anesthetized and imaged with a gamma camera — R. T. Proffitt et al.
: to form an image
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