image
image is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
- noun. Show; appearance; cast.
- noun. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
- noun. A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
- noun. 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.
- transitive verb. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
- transitive verb. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
- 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"
- noun. 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"
- noun. 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"
- noun. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
"a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
- noun. an iconic mental representation
"her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
- noun. a standard or typical example
"he is the prototype of good breeding"
"he provided America with an image of the good father"
- noun. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- noun. (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"
- noun. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
"he could be Gingrich's double"
"she's the very image of her mother"
- verb. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
"I can't see him on horseback!"
"I can see what will happen"
- verb. render visible, as by means of MRI
Synonyms
effigy, simulacrum, icon, ikon, picture, persona, epitome, paradigm, prototype, figure, trope, range, double, envision, fancy, project, see, visualise, visualize
Common word forms
imaged, imager, images, imaging, imageable, imageless
Words from these letters
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