English noun: image | |||
1. | image (cognition) an iconic mental representation | ||
Samples | Her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate. | ||
Synonyms | mental image | ||
Broader (hypernym) | internal representation, mental representation, representation | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | auditory image, imagination image, impression, memory image, mental picture, picture, thought-image, visual image, visualisation, visualization | ||
2. | image (attribute) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world | ||
Samples | A public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty. | ||
Synonyms | persona | ||
Broader (hypernym) | appearance, visual aspect | ||
Domain category | Carl Gustav Jung, Carl Jung, Jung, psychological science, psychology | ||
3. | image (artifact) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | ||
Samples | They showed us the pictures of their wedding. A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them. | ||
Synonyms | icon, ikon, picture | ||
Broader (hypernym) | representation | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bitmap, CAT scan, chiaroscuro, collage, computer graphic, cyclorama, diorama, echogram, electronic image, foil, graphic, iconography, inset, likeness, montage, panorama, reflection, reflexion, scan, semblance, sonogram, transparency | ||
4. | image (cognition) a standard or typical example | ||
Samples | He is the prototype of good breeding. He provided America with an image of the good father. | ||
Synonyms | epitome, paradigm, prototype | ||
Broader (hypernym) | example, model | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | concentrate, imago | ||
5. | image (communication) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | ||
Synonyms | figure, figure of speech, trope | ||
Broader (hypernym) | rhetorical device | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | conceit, exaggeration, hyperbole, irony, kenning, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, personification, prosopopoeia, simile, synecdoche, zeugma | ||
Domain usage members | bell ringer, blind alley, blockbuster, bull's eye, cakewalk, dawn, domino effect, evening, flip side, goldbrick, home run, housecleaning, lens, mark, megahit, period, rainy day, sleeper, smash hit, summer | ||
6. | image (person) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | ||
Samples | He could be Gingrich's double. She's the very image of her mother. | ||
Synonyms | double, look-alike | ||
Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | clone, dead ringer, ringer | ||
7. | image (group) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | ||
Samples | 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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | set | ||
Domain category | math, mathematics, maths | ||
8. | image (attribute) the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public | ||
Samples | Although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry. The company tried to project an altruistic image. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | effect, impression | ||
9. | image (artifact) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | ||
Samples | The coin bears an effigy of Lincoln. The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone. | ||
Synonyms | effigy, simulacrum | ||
Broader (hypernym) | representation | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bird-scarer, god, graven image, Guy, idol, scarecrow, scarer, straw man, strawman, wax figure, waxwork | ||
English verb: image | |||
1. | image (perception) render visible, as by means of MRI | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | visualise, visualize | ||
2. | image (creation) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | ||
Samples | I can't see him on horseback!. I can see what will happen. I can see a risk in this strategy. | ||
Synonyms | envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
Broader (hypernym) | conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine | ||
Verb group | realise, realize, see, understand, visualise, visualize | ||