image

1 :  to call up a mental picture of :  imagine

2 :  to describe or portray in language especially in a vivid manner

3a :  to create a representation of; also :  to form an image of imaged Jupiter's rings image the bone using X-raysb :  to represent symbolically

4a :  reflect, mirrorb :  to make appear :  project

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.

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 imageb:  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: asa (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 imagob:  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

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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