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image
noun(im-age)
an iconic mental representation
Synonyms: mental image,
Examples:
Her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate.
image
noun(im-age)
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
Synonyms: icon, ikon, picture,
Examples:
A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them.
image
noun(im-age)
a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum,
Examples:
The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone.
image
noun(im-age)
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
Synonyms: persona,
Examples:
A public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty.
image
noun(im-age)
a standard or typical example
Synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype,
Examples:
He provided America with an image of the good father.
image
verb(im-age)
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize,
image
noun(im-age)
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope,
image
noun(im-age)
(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
Synonyms: range, range of a function,
Examples:
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.
image
noun(im-age)
someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
Synonyms: double, look-alike,
Examples:
She's the very image of her mother.
image
verb(im-age)
render visible, as by means of MRI
image
noun(im-age)
the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
Examples:
Although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry.
The company tried to project an altruistic image.

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