Meaning of the word image

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This article is about visual artifacts or reproductions. For other uses, see Image (disambiguation).

An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensional picture, that resembles a subject. In the context of signal processing, an image is a distributed amplitude of color(s).^[1]

In optics, the term «image» may refer specifically to a 2D image.

An image does not have to use the entire visual system to be a visual representation. A popular example of this is of a greyscale image, which uses the visual system’s sensitivity to brightness across all wavelengths, without taking into account different colors. A black and white visual representation of something is still an image, even though it does not make full use of the visual system’s capabilities.

Images are typically still, but in some cases can be moving or animated.

Characteristics[edit]

Images may be two or three-dimensional, such as a photograph or screen display, or three-dimensional, such as a statue or hologram. They may be captured by optical devices – such as cameras, mirrors, lenses, telescopes, microscopes, and natural objects and phenomena, such as the human eye or water.

The word ‘image’ is also used in the broader sense of any two-dimensional figure such as a map, graph, pie chart, painting , or banner. In this wider sense, images can also be rendered manually, such as by drawing, the art of painting, carving, rendered automatically by printing or computer graphics technology, or developed by a combination of methods.

A volatile image is one that exists only for a short period of time. This may be a reflection of an object by a mirror, a projection of a camera obscura, or a scene displayed on a cathode-ray tube. A fixed image, also called a hard copy, is one that has been recorded on a material object, such as paper or textile by photography or any other digital process.

A mental image exists in an individual’s mind, as something one remembers or imagines. The subject of an image need not be real; it may be an abstract concept, such as a graph, function, or imaginary entity. Different scholars of psychoanalysis as well as the social sciences such as Slavoj Žižek and Jan Berger have pointed out the possibility of manipulating mental images for ideological purposes.

In culture[edit]

Images perpetuated in public education, media, and popular culture have a profound impact on the formation of such mental images:^{[2][page needed]}

What makes them so powerful is that they circumvent the faculties of the conscious mind but, instead, directly target the subconscious and affective, thus evading direct inquiry through contemplative reasoning. By doing so such axiomatic images tell us what we shall desire (liberalism, in a snapshot: the crunchy honey-flavored cereals and the freshly-pressed orange juice in the back of a suburban one-family home) and from what we shall obstain (communism, in a snapshot: lifeless crowds of men and machinery marching towards certain perdition accompanied by the tunes of Soviet Russian songs). What makes those images so powerful is that it is only of relative minor relevance for the stabilization of such images whether they actually capture and correspond with the multiple layers of reality, or not.

— David Leupold, Image and ideology. Some thoughts on Berger’s Another Way of Telling

The development of synthetic acoustic technologies and the creation of sound art have led to a consideration of the possibilities of a sound-image made up of irreducible phonic substance beyond linguistic or musicological analysis.

Still or moving[edit]

A still image is a single static image.^{[3][unreliable source?][4]} This phrase is used in photography, visual media and the computer industry to emphasize that one is not talking about movies, or in very precise or pedantic technical writing such as a standard.

A moving image is typically a movie (film) or video, including digital video. It could also be an animated display such as a zoetrope.

A still frame is a still image derived from one frame of a moving one. In contrast, a film still is a photograph taken on the set of a movie or television program during production, used for promotional purposes.

Two-dimensional (2D)[edit]

A two-dimensional (2D) image is a visual representation of something that is represented using only two spatial dimensions. Many 2D images are in the shape of rectangles. A common process by which 2D images have historically been displayed is called rasterization. As of 2021, 2D images are the most common type of image.

In image processing, a picture function is a mathematical representation of a two-dimensional image as a function of two spatial variables.^[5] The function f(x,y) describes the intensity of the point at coordinates (x,y).^[6]

Three-dimensional (3D)[edit]

Three-dimensional (3D) images are less common than two-dimensional images. Three-dimensional images feed into the visual system’s perception of depth to more accurately portray visual information. Common physical forms of 3D images include holograms.

Literature[edit]

In literature, imagery is a «mental picture» which appeals to the senses.^[7] It is just picturing an image mentally, also called imagining hence imagery. It can both be figurative and literal.^[7]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

In Gen.i. 27, it is said, «So the ALHIM created man in His image: _in the image_ of ALHIM created He him: MALE and FEMALE created He them.» ❋ Albert Pike (1850)

[OPTIONAL] At this point/mnt/$image contains a mounted filesystem with the complete Ubuntu image as released by Canonical. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Enjoy the playful artwork and textured background, or customize the look with a custom background color and image, custom header image*, and custom navigation menu. ❋ Unknown (2010)

/* Container for the image frame aka the top image*/ ❋ Unknown (2009)

$image — > polygon ($half_arrow_2, $black); open IMAGE, «> image. png» or die $! ❋ Unknown (2010)

$image array includes information about the image URL and sample links to it: ❋ Johncarrera (2010)

* % image% — The first image attachment found in feed item returned as a formatted image tag. ❋ Alex190 (2010)

Chapter 7 Next you decide whether or not you want to keep the changes you are making, and you do so in the fol — lowing lines: if ($action = = «preview») {header ( «Content-type: image/jpeg»); imagejpeg ($image);} If you are only previewing the image, you will spit it directly out to the browser (which is done using the imagejpeg () function and without a specific filename for the destination). ❋ Bravo77 (2009)

Perhaps the scientist describes these images in non-sensible terms, or perhaps he regards the ˜image of triangle™ apart from the particular, determinate angles or lengths that even any image must have ” he abstracts away these features, treating the abstract image as applying to all triangles. ❋ Silverman, Allan (2008)

Above the image is a toolbar with a zoom option, maximum resolution, fit in window, fit to width, rotate image left or right, hide/show thumbnail, and clip the image from a new window (which allows the user to crop the image to the desired size and section of the image in order to save, print or email). ❋ Unknown (2008)

I love the colors and that the main image is off to the left. unexpected! ❋ Unknown (2009)

You got nice write ups but there is one thing that looks awkward and that is the title image, adjust it properly. ❋ Toby O’B (2010)

Like much of Dylan’s work, «Boots of Spanish Leather» is both whimsical and emotional, and when the title image finally appears, it’s both rewarding and suggestive. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And below, you see the title image from Gurgles, the effect of these paintings is like that of the multi-coloured crayon covered over with black and then scratched away. they are lower case, the letters squeeze together often awkwardly. ❋ Lemon Hound (2006)

I have a little problem when I pass the mouse icon over the title image it flashes and sometimes turns to white aromas December 7, 2005 9:06 AM # | Delete ❋ Unknown (2005)

It will be seen that this reasoning is the same as Berkeley’s, though the two authors are reasoning on objects that are different; according to Berkeley, the brain and the states of conscience are psychical states; according to Bergson, the definition of the nature of these two objects designated by the term image is more comprehensive, but the essential of his argument is independent of this definition. ❋ Alfred Binet (1884)

D.H. Lawrence’s «Women in Love» is not so much about people as it is about elemental forces, but I’d say once you’ve read his stellar in both senses of the word image of what love between a man and a woman can be, it never leaves you. ❋ By JOHN WILLIAMS (2012)

«Dude! Try not to appear smart or [crack] any jokes! It might [wreck] MY [IMAGE]!!!» ❋ Shameless Plug (2004)

If you image yourself [acing] that [test], you will [ace it]. ❋ Xoynx (2006)

[Images]..
[IMAges]…
[IMMA] GIZZZZZZZ. ❋ Ashalee (2007)

This [brother] has a [nyce] [image] about himself ❋ Kenneth Coleman (2007)

[I know you are] stressed, but if you go downstairs and take a [30 minute] [imagication], you may feel a little better. ❋ Contrastband (2009)

[Katie] took the photographs Scott emailed her and placed them in [our website] after working them over in [Photoshop]. She is the total imageer. ❋ Imageer (2015)

[Vegans] have an [imagication] because they [think] they are nutritionists. ❋ Sah Jayah (2017)

[Lindsay] cared more about whether people liked unicorn [commercials] than she did about her own family, since a caring image sold better than a cruel image, even if [the latter] was closer to the real her, if there was such a thing. ❋ Solid Mantis (2020)

When you get down to it, past the dangerous, mysterious, and charming image of intrigue, the girl was actually a plain [mollycoddle] who had [party trick] [after party] trick, and knew a lot of languages she thought other people wanted to hear, even though they already knew language was always a way to keep things hidden from other people. She always thought the world was underestimating her, even when the world showed her otherwise. She kept not respecting the world, just like the world kept not respecting her, and the cycle never quit, even after her next party trick to convince the world she would change this time, just like she tried to convince the world the last time with a similar party trick. ❋ Solid Mantis (2020)

He/she shot the guy at the pig [pickin] dead and claimed it started as an argument over a garden hose to boost his/her [not to be fucked with] image. He/she did this so nobody would think he/she was a [weak person] at heart. ❋ Solid Mantis (2020)

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Displaced native Old English biliþe (“an image, a representation, resemblance, likeness; pattern, example”). Doublet of imago.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɪmɪdʒ
• Hyphenation: im‧age

Noun[edit]

image (plural images)

1. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.

   The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: […].”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, pages 77–78, column 2:

     The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of y^e Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^{[sic – meaning random]} uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.

   • 2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 106:

     Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

3. A statue or idol.
4. (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)

   Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

5. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
6. (mathematics) What a function maps to.

   The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.

7. (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.

   The image of this step function is the set of integers.

8. (radio) A form of interference: a weaker «copy» of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
9. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The face of things a frightful image bears.

Synonyms[edit]

• (representation): picture
• (mental picture): idea
• (something mapped to): value
• (subset of the codomain): range

Hyponyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

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Descendants[edit]

• German: Image
• Slovak: imidž
• Russian: и́мидж (ímidž)
  • Armenian: իմիջ (imiǰ)

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)

1. (transitive) To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
   • 1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215,^[2]

     This Representation of the Terrors which must have attended the Conflict of two such mighty Powers as Jupiter and Neptune, whereby the Elements had been mix’d in Confusion, and the whole Frame of Nature endangered, is imaged in these few Lines with a Nobleness suitable to the Occasion.

   • 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 393:

     […] his behaviour was, as I had imaged to myself, solemnly devout.

   • 1817 December​, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 1818, →OCLC:

     […] he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely […]

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 16, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 222:

     [The road] straggled onward into the mystery of a primeval forest. This hemmed it in so narrowly, and stood so black and dense on either side, and disclosed such imperfect glimpses of the sky above, that, to Hester’s mind, it imaged not amiss the moral wilderness in which she had so long been wandering.

   • 2000, Mary Ann Schwartz, BarBara Marliene Scott, Madine M. L. Vanderplaat, Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World (page 51)

     For example, in one use of content analysis, U.S. researchers Victoria Holden, William Holden, and Gary Davis (1997) examined the growing controversy over the racial imaging of indigenous peoples symbolized in sports team nicknames […]

2. (transitive) To reflect, mirror.
   • 1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo” in The Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906, Volume I, p. 10,^[3]

     See’st thou yon river, whose translucent wave,

     Forth issuing from the darkness, windeth through

     The argent streets o’ th’ City, imaging

     The soft inversion of her tremulous Domes,

   • 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Seventy-first”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC, page 210:

     Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born; imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose.

   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “2, “St. Edmundsbury,””, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 43:

     […] we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own, imaging our own, but all unconscious of us; to whom we, for the time, are become as spirits and invisible!

3. (transitive) To create an image of.

   • 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:

     The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.

4. (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Translations[edit]

References[edit]

• image at OneLook Dictionary Search
• image in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• «image» in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 158.
• “image”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• image in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Further reading[edit]

• image on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams[edit]

• Megia, gamie

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English image.

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: ima‧ge

Noun[edit]

image n (plural images)

1. image (characteristic perceived by others)

Synonyms[edit]

• imago

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French image, borrowed from Latin imago, imaginem (“a copy, likeness, image”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /i.maʒ/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʒ
• Homophones: images, imagent
• Hyphenation: image

Noun[edit]

image f (plural images)

1. picture, image
2. (television, film) frame
3. A mental representation.

Synonyms[edit]

• métaphore
• reflet
• symbole
• vision

Derived terms[edit]

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• imager
• imagerie
• imaginer

Descendants[edit]

• → Turkish: imaj

Verb[edit]

image

1. inflection of imager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading[edit]

• “image”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams[edit]

• magie

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

image

1. Alternative form of ymage

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English image.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ɪmɪdʂ/
• Rhymes: -ɪdʂ

Noun[edit]

image m or n (definite singular imagen or imageet, indefinite plural imager or image, definite plural imagene or imagea or imageene)

1. image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English image.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ɪmɪdʂ/
• Rhymes: -ɪdʂ

Noun[edit]

image m or n (definite singular imagen or imaget, indefinite plural imagar or image, definite plural imagane or imaga)

1. image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin imāgō, imāginem.

Noun[edit]

image f (oblique plural images, nominative singular image, nominative plural images)

1. sight (something which one sees)
2. image (pictorial representation)
3. image (mental or imagined representation)
4. image (likeness)
5. statue (of a person)

Descendants[edit]

• → English: image
• French: image

References[edit]

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (image, supplement)

(Entry 1 of 2) 1a : a visual representation of something: such as. (1) : a likeness of an object produced on a photographic material. (2) : a picture produced on an electronic display (such as a television or computer screen)

What part of speech is the word picture?

picture

part of speech:	noun
related words:	candid, canvas, ghost, image, landscape, likeness, miniature, vessel
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part of speech:	transitive verb
inflections:	pictures, picturing, pictured

Is Picture a noun or verb?

A picture can also refer to a mental image, among other senses. One meaning of picture, as a verb, is “to represent something in a picture or pictorially”—pictorial being a related adjective form variously used to refer to pictures.

Is Picture a noun yes or no?

picture (noun) picture (verb) picture–perfect (adjective)

What is another name for picture?

What is another word for picture?

portrait	sketch
effigy	likeness
representation	print
portrayal	diagram
photograph	depiction

What is slang for picture?

Selfie – (a photo you take of yourself) Groupie – (like a selfie, but a group of people are in the picture) Belfie – (a “butt selfie” – a photo you take of your buttocks, especially popular among young women) Photobomb – (to spoil someone’s photo by unexpectedly appearing in the frame)

What is the antonym of picture?

What is the opposite of picture?

scribble	confusion
mess	jumble

What is a story with pictures called?

In photographic practice, visual storytelling is often called a ‘photo essay’ or ‘photo story’. It’s a way for a photographer to narrate a story with a series of photographs. Captions are also an integral part of a photo story that should help the viewer understand each image.

What do you call a book without words?

Wordless picture books are told entirely through their illustrations — they are books without words, or sometimes just a few words. Sharing wordless books with a child provides an opportunity for literacy-rich conversations.

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How to Start a Self-Introduction Speech?

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The meanings of the word «image» can not be put into a single formulation, since the concept is both material, and metaphysical, and semantic oboslivayuschee.

Interpretation of the image

Here so describe the essence of the word different dictionaries:

• Philosophical reading: the image is the form, essence, ideal of the original representation of objects in human consciousness;
• External appearance, as it is;
• In the artistic reading in the explanatory dictionary, the meaning of the word «image» is understood as a model for imitation or censure, a very characteristic character; The idea of someone specific, by transferring the features of his personality to objects, people;
• Representation of something;
• Icon-painting — here the meaning of the word «image» means the face of the depicted saint;
• Visible, warmed in the imagination.

In our time to determine the meaning of the word «image» means to delve into the description of the appearance or an explanation of the nature of someone’s thinking: the female image, the image of his thoughts (behavior).

The image in the ancient Slavonic culture

With abstract reasoning that there is an image, the specifics are not needed, because first of all this is a mental perception. The image of evil and deceit was outlined by our distant ancestors in the form of dragons and all kinds of monsters, the image of the entire Russian people — in the epic heroes, each of them also characterized by individual traits, therefore, images.

The lexical meaning of the word «image» is the image that gives an idea of the appearance, character and basic features of the individual’s personality — meets all the canons for transferring this concept to the formation of folk tales. The main purpose of figurative presentation is to facilitate understanding of the topic by using symbolic signs. So, God, in a figurative representation, is always male, but an exemplary disciple, «botanist» — in big glasses.

The decoding of the word in the Old Slavic alphabet is subordinated to the usual rule of dividing the meaning into sub-meanings:

• O — like, like, like.
• B — God, the essence.
• R — ra, sun, radiance.
• Azi is a human being.

In other words, only a person like the radiance (bright personality) can achieve the vision of true images.

Where the Image is born

The image is born in the mental perception by the transfer of feelings, sensations, internal needs for real objects. So, a handsome young man could be portrayed as an angel, and a sick child in the form of a vicious life of generations. Every person who has the ability to think abstractly, there is a need to subordinate certain images.

Thinking, devoid of abstraction, is the brightest sign of mental retardation. A person whose consciousness is limited by the actual existence of the present moment is in no way different from the animal according to the mental state.

Force of the Image

Because the metaphysical meaning of the word «image» is a concept that does not require a real shell, its power is enormous, because it is based on an infinite vacuum vacuum. Out of the emptiness of this thought process, a Form is created, filled with psychokinetic density, like a vessel with water. In the filling of the Form there is everything, whatever the creator wants — the characteristic features, the stuffiness of the negative or positive core (classical characters are not «average» — they are either good or bad).

As the Form obtains personality traits, it becomes virtually independent. From the moment when the existing image leaves the void, of which it is no longer part, it begins to form its own space around itself, to become overtaken by actions, friends, enemies.

The creation of a person’s own image goes through the same process, but it has an effect on the physical body, which means it requires constant replenishment in the form of real actions. In other words, creating an image of a business person, an individual will have to change the wardrobe to a solid one, buy an expensive car, etc.

Artistic image

At the beginning of any storyline is the idea. As a rule, the idea is embodied by the intention of transferring some action around which a tangle of events is already growing, a lot of faces and places where the scenes unfold. Each element of this complex system representation has a chance to incarnate in an artistic manner. The meaning of the word here is attached to the aesthetic presentation: in the image of autumn there will be a yellowing leaf falling into the pond, and the image of a chance meeting may be the smell of lavender water accompanying the heroine.

In other words, the phenomenon is penetrating and well-responding perception will necessarily become a symbolic image of a short scene, episode or whole book. Often novels and novels are created, the real purpose of which is the description of one dialogue laid in the deep basis of the whole plot, or some picture that arose in the author’s brain and demanded an incarnation.

The action of the artistic image

The main criterion by which an artistic image can be considered ergonomically presented is the aura of understatement with apparent integrity and observance of typicality. Atypical incarnations also take place in the treasury of creative research, but, not responding to real situations, without finding an echo in the mind of a person, they run the risk of not forming into the full meaning of the word «image.»

The action of the heroes can be transferred to another planet or to the bowels of the earth, but if the modulation of events does not distort the universal values and vices, that it is bad to lie, and it is good to help one’s neighbor, the typical orientation of the reader or viewer will not require a rethinking.

The understatement, as if accidentally not traced elements in the description of characters, the terrain of the development of events, is the key that enables an outside observer to independently make a survey.

In many respects it is thanks to competently designed character traits that classic characters like Gogol’s Plyushkin or Alisa’s fox from «Pinocchio» have been representing generations of extreme stinginess and dodgy cunning for several generations.

• Defenition of the word image

  • A representation of visible reality produced by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
  • The visual representation of a person or an object.
  • someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); «he could be Gingrich’s double»; «she’s the very image of her mother»
  • a likeness 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»
  • an iconic mental representation; «her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate»
  • (Jungian psychology) a personal facade one presents to the world; «a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty»
  • a visual representation of an object or scene or person 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»
  • a standard or typical example; «he is the prototype of good breeding»; «he provided America with an image of the good father»
  • language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
  • imagine; see in one’s mind; «I can’t see him on horseback!» «I can see what will happen»
  • 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»
  • 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»
  • someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); «he could be Gingrich»s double»; «she»s the very image of her mother»
  • 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»
  • a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
  • a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
  • the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
  • (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
  • an iconic mental representation
  • a standard or typical example
  • (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
  • someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
  • imagine; conceive of; see in one’s mind
  • render visible, as by means of MRI

Synonyms for the word image

• • air
  • appearance
  • aura
  • copy
  • double
  • effigy
  • envision
  • epitome
  • fancy
  • figure
  • figure of speech
  • icon
  • idea
  • ikon
  • illustration
  • impression
  • likeness
  • look
  • mental image
  • paradigm
  • persona
  • picture
  • project
  • prototype
  • reflection
  • representation
  • see
  • simulacrum
  • the way you are seen
  • trope
  • view
  • vision
  • visualize

Similar words in the image

• • image
  • image’s
  • imaged
  • imagery
  • imagery’s
  • images

Hyponyms for the word image

• • auditory image
  • bird-scarer
  • bitmap
  • CAT scan
  • chiaroscuro
  • clone
  • collage
  • computer graphic
  • conceit
  • concentrate
  • cyclorama
  • dead ringer
  • diorama
  • echogram
  • electronic image
  • exaggeration
  • exposure
  • foil
  • god
  • graphic
  • graven image
  • Guy
  • hyperbole
  • iconography
  • idol
  • imagination image
  • imago
  • impression
  • inset
  • irony
  • kenning
  • likeness
  • memory image
  • mental picture
  • metaphor
  • metonymy
  • montage
  • oxymoron
  • panorama
  • personification
  • photo
  • photograph
  • pic
  • picture
  • prosopopoeia
  • reflection
  • reflexion
  • ringer
  • scan
  • scarecrow
  • scarer
  • semblance
  • simile
  • sonogram
  • straw man
  • strawman
  • synecdoche
  • thought-image
  • transparency
  • visual image
  • visualisation
  • visualization
  • wax figure
  • waxwork
  • zeugma

Hypernyms for the word image

• • appearance
  • conceive of
  • effect
  • envisage
  • example
  • human
  • ideate
  • imagine
  • impression
  • individual
  • internal representation
  • mental representation
  • model
  • mortal
  • person
  • representation
  • rhetorical device
  • set
  • somebody
  • someone
  • soul
  • visual aspect
  • visualise
  • visualize

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  • Holonyms for the word impact
  • Hypernyms for the word impediment
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word imperfection
  • Translation of the word in other languages implant

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Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as ‘black and white,’ in that they can’t see the multiple colors required to reconstruct a color image of the world. They do, however, have specialized cells that enable them to see ultraviolet wavelengths.

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD IMAGE

From Old French imagene, from Latin imāgō copy, representation; related to Latin imitārī to imitate.

PRONUNCIATION OF IMAGE

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMAGE

Image is a verb and can also act as a noun.

WHAT DOES IMAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of image in the English dictionary

The first definition of image in the dictionary is a representation or likeness of a person or thing, esp in sculpture. Other definition of image is an optically formed reproduction of an object, such as one formed by a lens or mirror. Image is also a person or thing that resembles another closely; double or copy.

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WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMAGE

SYNONYMS OF «IMAGE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «image» and belong to the same grammatical category.

TRANSLATION OF IMAGE

Find out the translation of image to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMAGE»

The term «image» is very widely used and occupies the 261 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

Principal search tendencies and common uses of image

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMAGE» OVER TIME

10 QUOTES WITH «IMAGE»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMAGE»

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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMAGE»

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REFERENCE

« EDUCALINGO. Image [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/image>. Apr 2023 ».