Definitions for image

image im·age

Spelling: [im-ij]
IPA: /ˈɪm ɪdʒ/

Image is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in image (aegim).

Definitions for image

noun

  1. a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
  2. an optical counterpart or appearance of an object, as is produced by reflection from a mirror, refraction by a lens, or the passage of luminous rays through a small aperture and their reception on a surface.
  3. a mental representation; idea; conception.
  4. Psychology. a mental representation of something previously perceived, in the absence of the original stimulus.
  5. form; appearance; semblance:
  6. counterpart; copy:
  7. a symbol; emblem.
  8. the general or public perception of a company, public figure, etc., especially as achieved by careful calculation aimed at creating widespread goodwill.
  9. a type; embodiment:
  10. a description of something in speech or writing:
  11. Rhetoric. a figure of speech, especially a metaphor or a simile.
  12. an idol or representation of a deity:
  13. Mathematics. the point or set of points in the range corresponding to a designated point in the domain of a given function.
  14. Archaic. an illusion or apparition.

verb (used with object)

  1. to picture or represent in the mind; imagine; conceive.
  2. to make an image of; portray in sculpture, painting, etc.
  3. to project (photographs, film, etc.) on a surface:
  4. to reflect the likeness of; mirror.
  5. to set forth in speech or writing; describe.
  6. to symbolize; typify.
  7. to resemble.
  8. Informal. to create an image for (a company, public figure, etc.):
  9. to transform (data) into an exact replica in a different form, as changing digital data to pixels for display on a screen or representing a medical scan of a body part in digital form.

Origin of image

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English Old French image, imagene (-ene apparently construed as suffix) Latin imāgin-, stem of imāgō a copy, likeness, equivalent to im- (cf.

Examples for image

That thing we seemed to possess was not the other, but an image of them we formed—they themselves are still free.

The effort to sterilize his image first began when Epstein hired Los Angeles-based spin doctors Sitrick Co.

When his agent asked if he missed his wife, his mind flashed to an image of Alison.

In other words, though carved in ebony, he also was in the image of God.

"So much the more need that we enshrine her image in our own hearts," rejoined Plato.

Gradually the image of the middle-aged Robin had effaced his youth.

Of course, Kim Jong-Un takes an image hit as a Katy Perry-obsessed, margarita-drinking maniac with daddy issues.

What image are you hoping people who pick up this book and read it, come away with?

Towards the image of their friend who broke the laws of God.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Word Value for image
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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