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im⋅age

  [im-ij] noun, verb, -aged, -ag⋅ing.
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–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: We are all created in God's image.
6. counterpart; copy: That child is the image of his mother.
7. a symbol; emblem.
8. the general or public perception of a company, public figure, etc., esp. as achieved by careful calculation aimed at creating widespread goodwill.
9. a type; embodiment: Red-faced and angry, he was the image of frustration.
10. a description of something in speech or writing: Keats created some of the most beautiful images in the language.
11. Rhetoric. a figure of speech, esp. a metaphor or a simile.
12. an idol or representation of a deity: They knelt down before graven images.
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)
15. to picture or represent in the mind; imagine; conceive.
16. to make an image of; portray in sculpture, painting, etc.
17. to project (photographs, film, etc.) on a surface: Familiar scenes were imaged on the screen.
18. to reflect the likeness of; mirror.
19. to set forth in speech or writing; describe.
20. to symbolize; typify.
21. to resemble.
22. Informal. to create an image for (a company, public figure, etc.): The candidate had to be imaged before being put on the campaign trail.
23. to transform (data) into an exact replica in a different form, as changing digital data to pixels for display on a CRT or representing a medical scan of a body part in digital form.
Origin:
1175–1225; (n.) ME < OF image, imagene (-ene appar. construed as suffix) < L imāgin-, s. of imāgō a copy, likeness, equiv. to im- (cf. imitate ) + -āgō n. suffix; (v.) ME: to form a mental picture < OF imagier, deriv. of image

Related forms:
im⋅age⋅a⋅ble, adjective
im⋅ag⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1, 12. Image, icon, idol refer to material representations of persons or things. An image is a representation as in a statue or effigy, and is sometimes regarded as an object of worship: to set up an image of Apollo; an image of a saint. An icon, in the Greek or Eastern Orthodox Church, is a representation of Christ, an angel, or a saint, in painting, relief, mosaic, or the like: At least two icons are found in each church. An idol is an image, statue, or the like representing a deity and worshiped as such: a wooden idol; The heathen worship idols. It may be used figuratively: to make an idol of wealth. 2. likeness, figure, representation. 3. notion. 6. facsimile.

Antonyms:
6. original.
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im·age   (ĭm'ĭj)   
n.  

  1. A reproduction of the form of a person or object, especially a sculptured likeness.

  2. Physics An optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction formed by a lens or mirror.

  3. One that closely or exactly resembles another; a double: He is the image of his uncle.

    1. The opinion or concept of something that is held by the public.

    2. The character projected to the public, as by a person or institution, especially as interpreted by the mass media.

    3. A vivid description or representation.

    4. A figure of speech, especially a metaphor or simile.

    5. A concrete representation, as in art, literature, or music, that is expressive or evocative of something else: night as an image of death.

  5. A personification of something specified: That child is the image of good health.

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

    1. A vivid description or representation.

    2. A figure of speech, especially a metaphor or simile.

    3. A concrete representation, as in art, literature, or music, that is expressive or evocative of something else: night as an image of death.

  8. Mathematics A set of values of a function corresponding to a particular subset of a domain.

  9. Computer Science An exact replica of the contents of a storage device, such as a hard disk, stored on a second storage device, such as a network server.

  10. Obsolete An apparition.

tr.v.   im·aged, im·ag·ing, im·ag·es

  1. To make or produce a likeness of: imaged the poet in bronze.

  2. To mirror or reflect: a statue imaged in the water.

  3. To symbolize or typify: a kneeling woman imaging the nation's grief.

  4. To picture mentally; imagine.

  5. To describe, especially so vividly as to evoke a mental picture of.

  6. Computer Science

    1. To print (a file) using a laser printer, imagesetter, direct-to-plate press, or similar device.

    2. To transmit (an exact replica of the contents of a storage device) to another storage device: imaged the hard drive to the server.

  7. To render visually, as by magnetic resonance imaging.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin imāgō; see aim- in Indo-European roots.]
im'age·less adj., im'ag·er n.
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Word Origin & History

image 
c.1225, "artificial representation that looks like a person or thing," from O.Fr. image, earlier imagene (11c.), from L. imaginem (nom. imago) "copy, statue, picture, idea, appearance," from stem of imitari "to copy, imitate" (see imitate). Meaning "reflection in a mirror" is c.1315. The mental sense was in L., and appears in Eng. c.1374. Sense of "public impression" is attested in isolated cases from 1908 but not in common use until its rise in the jargon of advertising and public relations, c.1958. Imagism as the name of a movement in poetry that sought clarity of expression through use of precise visual images, "hard light, clear edges," was coined 1912 by Ezra Pound.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2image
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: im·aged; im·ag·ing
transitive senses
1 : to callup a mental picture of : IMAGINE
2 : to create a representation of; also : to forman image of imaged> imaged with a gamma camera —R. T. Proffitt et al> image intransitivesenses
: to form an image
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Medical Dictionary

image im·age (ĭm'ĭj)
n.

  1. An optically formed duplicate or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction of an object formed by a lens or mirror.

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

  3. An exact copy of data in a computer file transferred to another medium.

v. im·aged, im·ag·ing, im·ag·es

  1. To make or produce a likeness of.

  2. To picture something mentally; imagine.

  3. To translate photographs or other pictures by computer into numbers that can be transmitted to a remote location and then reconverted into pictures by another computer.

  4. To visualize something, as by magnetic resonance imaging.

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