Definitions for images
images
im·age
Spelling: [im-ij]
IPA: /ˈɪm ɪdʒ/
Images is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 123 anagrams from letters in images (aegims).
Definitions for images
noun
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a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
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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.
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a mental representation; idea; conception.
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Psychology. a mental representation of something previously perceived, in the absence of the original stimulus.
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form; appearance; semblance:
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counterpart; copy:
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a symbol; emblem.
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the general or public perception of a company, public figure, etc., especially as achieved by careful calculation aimed at creating widespread goodwill.
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a type; embodiment:
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a description of something in speech or writing:
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Rhetoric. a figure of speech, especially a metaphor or a simile.
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an idol or representation of a deity:
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Mathematics. the point or set of points in the range corresponding to a designated point in the domain of a given function.
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Archaic. an illusion or apparition.
verb (used with object)
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to picture or represent in the mind; imagine; conceive.
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to make an image of; portray in sculpture, painting, etc.
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to project (photographs, film, etc.) on a surface:
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to reflect the likeness of; mirror.
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to set forth in speech or writing; describe.
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to symbolize; typify.
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to resemble.
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Informal. to create an image for (a company, public figure, etc.):
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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 images
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 images
Not exactly a happy quotation over a nature background like some of the images floating around in the blogosphere!
Growing up in that suburbia and air of pop culture, these images stayed with me like a weird dream.
The brackets on which these figures stood often remain, though the images have disappeared.
It is not only clerics and Islamic ideologues who use offensive words and images to describe the sexual life of Westerners.
On all the housetops roundabout the women and the children were as still as images.
images of the hotel crop up repeatedly in his paintings, sometimes plagued by bats or monsters.
It captured and imprisoned the sounds as the photograph retained the images of light.
Mrs Verloc, who thought in images, was not troubled now by visions, because she did not think at all.
The mighty walls were wrought with images of earth and sea and sky.
It cannot be that the images that move around the world are just of one kind of person.