image

Meanings

• 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 visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
  • "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
• a standard or typical example
  • "he provided America with an image of the good father"
• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
• someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
  • "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"
• 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"
• a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
  • "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"
• render visible, as by means of MRI
• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

Synonyms

double, effigy, envision, epitome, fancy, figure, figure of speech, icon, ikon, look-alike, mental image, paradigm, persona, picture, project, prototype, range, range of a function, see, simulacrum, trope, visualise, visualize