noun
- An iconic mental representation.
- usage: "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
- synonyms: mental image
- Jungian psychology. ( a personal facade that one presents to the world)
- usage: "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
- synonyms: persona
- A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.
- usage: "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
- A standard or typical example.
- usage: "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
- Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
- synonyms: trope, figure of speech, figure
- Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor. )
- usage: "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"
- synonyms: double, look-alike
- Mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined. (
- usage: "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
- The general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public.
- usage: "although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry"; "the company tried to project an altruistic image"
- A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture. )
- usage: "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"
- synonyms: effigy, simulacrum
verb
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