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 Dictionary entry overview: What does image mean? 

• IMAGE (noun)
  The noun IMAGE has 9 senses:

1. an iconic mental representation

2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

3. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

4. a standard or typical example

5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

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

7. (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined

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

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

  Familiarity information: IMAGE used as a noun is familiar.

• IMAGE (verb)
  The verb IMAGE has 2 senses:

1. render visible, as by means of MRI

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

  Familiarity information: IMAGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An iconic mental representation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

image; mental image

Context example:

her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate

Hypernyms ("image" is a kind of...):

internal representation; mental representation; representation (a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "image"):

memory image (a mental image of something previously experienced)

auditory image (a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception)

impression; mental picture; picture (a clear and telling mental image)

visual image; visualisation; visualization (a mental image that is similar to a visual perception)

imagination image; thought-image (a mental image produced by the imagination)

Derivation:

image (imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

image; persona

Context example:

a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty

Hypernyms ("image" is a kind of...):

appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Carl Gustav Jung; Carl Jung; Jung (Swiss psychologist (1875-1961))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

icon; ikon; image; picture

Context example:

a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them

Hypernyms ("image" is a kind of...):

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "image"):

iconography (the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject)

echogram; sonogram (an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organs)

CAT scan; scan (an image produced by scanning)

reflection; reflexion (the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material))

cyclorama; diorama; panorama (a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene)

likeness; semblance (picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing)

inset (a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one)

computer graphic; graphic (an image that is generated by a computer)

foil; transparency (picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector)

collage; montage (a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image)

chiaroscuro (a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color)

bitmap; electronic image (an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels)

Derivation:

image (imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A standard or typical example

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

epitome; image; paradigm; prototype

Context example:

he provided America with an image of the good father

Hypernyms ("image" is a kind of...):

example; model (a representative form or pattern)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "image"):

concentrate (a concentrated example of something)

imago ((psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

figure; figure of speech; image; trope

Hypernyms ("image" is a kind of...):

rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))

Domain member usage:

domino effect (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))

flip side (a different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect))

period (the end or completion of something)

summer (the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty)

dawn (an opening time period)

evening (a later concluding time period)

rainy day (a (future) time of financial need)

blockbuster; megahit; smash hit (an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel))

lens ((metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood)

helm ((figurative) a position of leadership)

goldbrick (anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless)

housecleaning ((figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions)

bell ringer; bull's eye; home run; mark (something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal)

sleeper (an unexpected hit)

blind alley ((figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement)

cakewalk (an easy accomplishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "image"):

conceit (an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things)

irony (a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs)

exaggeration; hyperbole (extravagant exaggeration)

kenning (conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry)

metaphor (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 (substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads'))

oxymoron (conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence'))

personification; prosopopoeia (representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature)

simile (a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as'))

synecdoche (substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa)

zeugma (use of a verb with two or more complements, playing on the verb's polysemy, for humorous effect)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

double; image; look-alike

Context example:

she's the very image of her mother

Hypernyms ("image" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "image"):

clone; dead ringer; ringer (a person who is almost identical to another)

Sense 7

Meaning:

(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

image; range; range of a function

Context 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

Hypernyms ("image" is a kind of...):

set ((mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Sense 8

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the company tried to project an altruistic image

Hypernyms ("image" is a kind of...):

effect; impression (an outward appearance)

Sense 9

Meaning:

A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

effigy; image; simulacrum

Context example:

the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone

Hypernyms ("image" is a kind of...):

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "image"):

god; graven image; idol (a material effigy that is worshipped)

bird-scarer; scarecrow; scarer; straw man; strawman (an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds)

wax figure; waxwork (an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax)

Guy (an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day)

Derivation:

image (imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind)

• IMAGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they image    ... he / she / it images   
Past simple: imaged   
Past participle: imaged   
-ing form: imaging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Render visible, as by means of MRI

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "image" is one way to...):

visualise; visualize (view the outline of by means of an X-ray)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

envision; fancy; figure; image; picture; project; see; visualise; visualize

Context example:

I can see a risk in this strategy

Hypernyms (to "image" is one way to...):

conceive of; envisage; ideate; imagine (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case)

Verb group:

realise; realize; see; understand (perceive (an idea or situation) mentally)

visualise; visualize (form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

image (a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture))

image (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)

image (an iconic mental representation)

imagery; imaging (the ability to form mental images of things or events)

 Context examples 

Any record of a medical imaging event whether physical or electronic.

(Medical Image, NCI Thesaurus)

"It was the missionary who did the image breaking," he laughed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This agent accumulates at sites of osteoid mineralization and can be used, complexed with radioisotopes such as technetium 99m, in bone imaging.

(Medronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Doctors use imaging tests to detect them.

(Arteriovenous Malformations, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

She is the very image of my dead wife: unless I have her, I shall not find any bride upon the whole earth, and you say there must be a queen.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

An imaging artifact resulting from a patient arrhythmia.

(Arrhythmia Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)

A radiologic finding indicating the presence of new vessels on arterial phase imaging within or surrounding a lesion.

(Arterial Hypervascularization, NCI Thesaurus)

Planar imaging that includes megavoltage images.

(Megavoltage Planar Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

This is used as a setting on a radiography machine to determine the density of the radiographic image.

(Milliampere second, NCI Thesaurus)

"That is good image," he said.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)