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Words people most associate with “image”:

  1. picture,
  2. photo,
  3. mirror,
  4. self,
  5. photograph

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Noun (9 meanings)

1. an iconic mental representation.

image, mental image

Example:
  • “her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate”
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2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world.

persona, image

Example:
  • “a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty”
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3. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.

picture, image, icon, ikon

Examples:
  • “they showed us the pictures of their wedding”,
  • “a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them”
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  • representation (noun) - a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
types of image:
  • bitmap, electronic image (noun) - an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels
  • chiaroscuro (noun) - a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color
  • collage, montage (noun) - a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
  • foil, transparency (noun) - picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base
  • graphic, computer graphic (noun) - an image that is generated by a computer
  • iconography (noun) - the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject
  • inset (noun) - a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one
  • likeness, semblance (noun) - picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
  • panorama, cyclorama, diorama (noun) - a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
  • reflection, reflexion (noun) - the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)
  • scan, CAT scan (noun) - an image produced by scanning
  • sonogram, echogram (noun) - an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves)
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4. a standard or typical example.

prototype, paradigm, epitome, image

Examples:
  • “he is the prototype of good breeding”,
  • “he provided America with an image of the good father”
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  • concentrate (noun) - a concentrated example of something
  • imago (noun) - (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood
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5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.

trope, figure of speech, figure, image

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  • rhetorical device (noun) - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
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  • conceit (noun) - an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
  • hyperbole, exaggeration (noun) - extravagant exaggeration
  • irony (noun) - a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  • kenning (noun) - conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
  • metaphor (noun) - a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
  • metonymy (noun) - substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
  • oxymoron (noun) - conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
  • personification, prosopopoeia (noun) - representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
  • simile (noun) - a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
  • synecdoche (noun) - substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa
  • zeugma (noun) - use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one
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  • tropical (adjective) - characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes
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  • bell ringer, bull's eye, mark, home run (noun) - something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
  • blind alley (noun) - (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement
  • blockbuster, megahit, smash hit (noun) - an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)
  • cakewalk (noun) - an easy accomplishment
  • dawn (noun) - an opening time period
  • domino effect (noun) - the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)
  • evening (noun) - a later concluding time period
  • flip side (noun) - a different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect)
  • goldbrick (noun) - anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
  • housecleaning (noun) - (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions
  • lens (noun) - (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
  • period (noun) - the end or completion of something
  • rainy day (noun) - a (future) time of financial need
  • sleeper (noun) - an unexpected hit
  • summer (noun) - the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty

6. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor).

double, image, look-alike

Examples:
  • “he could be Gingrich's double”,
  • “she's the very image of her mother”
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7. (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined.

image, range, range of a function

Example:
  • “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”
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  • set (noun) - (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
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  • to range, run (verb) - change or be different within limits
Domain of synset - TOPIC:
  • mathematics, math, maths (noun) - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

8. the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public.

image

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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9. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture).

effigy, image, simulacrum

Examples:
  • “the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln”,
  • “the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone”
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  • representation (noun) - a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
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Verb (2 meanings)

1. render visible, as by means of MRI.

to image

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2. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.

to visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image

Examples:
  • “I can't see him on horseback!”,
  • “I can see what will happen”,
  • “I can see a risk in this strategy”
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  • effigy, image, simulacrum (noun) - a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
  • fancy (noun) - a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
  • figuration (noun) - representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
  • illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancy (noun) - something many people believe that is false
  • image, mental image (noun) - an iconic mental representation
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