image

Noun

• a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
  • the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln
    
  • the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone
    

• 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
    

• (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
    

• someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
  • he could be Gingrich's double
    
  • she's the very image of her mother
    

• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

• a standard or typical example
  • he is the prototype of good breeding
    
  • he provided America with an image of the good father
    

• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
  • they showed us the pictures of their wedding
    
  • a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them
    

• (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
  • a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty
    

• an iconic mental representation
  • her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
    

Verb

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
  • I can't see him on horseback!
    
  • I can see what will happen
    
  • I can see a risk in this strategy
    

• render visible, as by means of MRI

Related words

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