image

image has 19 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
• n.. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
• n.. Show; appearance; cast.
• n.. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
• n.. A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
• n.. The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.
• v. t.. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
• v. t.. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
• n.. 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"
• n.. 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"
• n.. 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"
• n.. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"