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US
/ˈɪmədʒ, ˈɪmɪdʒ/
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[ UK /ˈɪmɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɪmɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
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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 -
an iconic mental representation
her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate -
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty -
a standard or typical example
he provided America with an image of the good father
he is the prototype of good breeding - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
he could be Gingrich's double
she's the very image of her mother -
(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 -
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 -
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
VERB
- render visible, as by means of MRI
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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
How To Use image In A Sentence
- It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
- As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
- Background-position: background image in the canvas element in the targeted space, designated the upper left corner of the image relative to the level of canvas and vertical spacing interval .
- This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
- This can often create a lot of noise, reducing the quality of image obtainable.
- His self-image is rooted in robotic toughness, like the shape-shifting, molten-metal fiend in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
- There's a strangeness about the whole image, as though a story lurks untold. The Times Literary Supplement
- A recent issue of Gastroenterology reports on animal studies describing a swallowable capsule that can transmit video images as it travels through the small intestine.
- Now the word "prayer" to non-Muslim readers will evoke an image of people perhaps silently clasping their hands together, leaning forward in a pew, and either silently, to themselves, or in a quiet tone, speaking heartfeltly to God. David Horowitz Freedom Center
- Prior to testing, stimulus males were kept for some days in aquaria with a one-way mirror on one side to acclimatize them with their reflected image.