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| 1. | [ noun ] an iconic mental representation | |
| Synonyms: | mental_image | |
| Examples: | "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" |
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| Related terms: | representation mental_picture memory_image visual_image imagination_image auditory_image visualize | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (Jungian psychology) a personal facade one presents to the world | |
| Synonyms: | persona | |
| Examples: | "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" |
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| Related terms: | appearance psychology Jung | |
| 3. | [ noun ] a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | |
| Synonyms: | picture ikon icon | |
| 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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| Related terms: | representation photograph collage drawing reflection sonogram inset panorama foil chiaroscuro iconography likeness bitmap cat_scan visualize | |
| 4. | [ noun ] a standard or typical example | |
| Synonyms: | prototype epitome paradigm | |
| Examples: | "he is the prototype of good breeding" "he provided America with an image of the good father" |
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| Related terms: | model concentrate imago typify | |
| 5. | [ noun ] (rhetoric) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | |
| Synonyms: | figure_of_speech figure trope | |
| Related terms: | rhetorical_device metaphor hyperbole simile oxymoron synecdoche kenning personification irony metonymy zeugma lens blind_alley | |
| 6. | [ verb ] imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | |
| Synonyms: | see picture envision visualize fancy figure visualise project | |
| 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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| Related terms: | imagine understand visualise mental_picture imagination illusion visionary visual_image fancy picturing figuration visualizer | |
| 7. | [ noun ] someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | |
| Synonyms: | look-alike double | |
| Examples: | "he could be Gingrich's double" "she's the very image of her mother" |
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| Related terms: | person ringer | |
| 8. | [ noun ] a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | |
| Synonyms: | simulacrum effigy | |
| Examples: | "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln" "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" |
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| Related terms: | representation idol Guy waxwork scarecrow visualize | |
| Similar spelling: |
Imes imago |
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