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ɪdʒ noun, plural im·age·ries.
1.
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.
2.
pictorial images, as in works of art.
3.
the use of rhetorical images.
4.
figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively.
5.
Psychology. mental images collectively, especially those produced by the action of imagination.
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Imagery
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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World English Dictionary
imagery (ˈɪmɪdʒrɪ, -dʒərɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -ries | |
| 1. | figurative or descriptive language in a literary work |
| 2. | images collectively |
| 3. | psychol |
| a. the materials or general processes of the imagination | |
| b. image See also imagination the characteristic kind of mental images formed by a particular individual | |
| 4. | military the presentation of objects reproduced photographically (by infrared or electronic means) as prints or electronic displays |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
imagery
early 14c., from O.Fr. imagerie (13c.), from imagier, from image (see image).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
imagery definition
The mental pictures created by a piece of writing: “The imagery of “The Waste Land” — crumbling towers, dried-up wells, toppled tombstones — conveys the author's sense of a civilization in decay.”
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Imagery definition
only in the phrase "chambers of his imagery" (Ezek. 8:12). (See CHAMBER.)
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
Understanding the behavior of fish will enable you to produce stunning imagery.
Photographers have been manipulating imagery since the medium was invented.
Mid-term elections do not normally generate such histrionic imagery.
They conducted demographic studies with the help of satellite imagery.
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