image meaning and definition

IMAGE noun

Definition of image (noun)

1. an iconic mental representation
   • "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
   • synonyms: mental image
2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
   • "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
   • synonyms: persona
3. 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"
   • synonyms: icon, ikon, picture
4. a standard or typical example
   • "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
   • synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype
5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
   • synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope
6. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
   • "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"
   • synonyms: double, look-alike
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"
   • synonyms: range, range of a function
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"
9. 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"
   • synonyms: effigy, simulacrum

IMAGE verb

Definition of image (verb)

1. render visible, as by means of MRI
2. 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"
   • synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize