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say it: IM-uhj
image is a noun and verb meaning "an iconic mental representation". It carries 11 recorded senses.
an iconic mental representation
“her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate”
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
“a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty”
Jung · psychology
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”
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
“he could be Gingrich's double”
“she's the very image of her mother”
(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”
mathematics
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”
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”
render visible, as by means of MRI
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for image come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.