image
noun
1. an iconic mental representation
- her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
Definition categories: thought, representation
2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
- a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty
Similar word(s): persona
Definition categories: attribute, appearance
3. 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
Similar word(s): icon, ikon, picture
Definition categories: man–made, representation
4. a standard or typical example
- he provided America with an image of the good father
Similar word(s): epitome, paradigm, prototype
Definition categories: thought, example, model
5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Similar word(s): figure, trope
Definition categories: communication
6. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- she's the very image of her mother
Similar word(s): double
Definition categories: person, individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul
7. (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
Similar word(s): range
Definition categories: group, set
8. 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
Definition categories: attribute, effect, impression
9. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone
Similar word(s): effigy, simulacrum
Definition categories: man–made, representation
Sentences with image as a noun:
- The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
- Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
- The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2*x.
- The image of this step function is the set of integers.