Image
Definition of Image
Im´age Pronunciation: ĭm´ãj; 48 | n. | 1. | An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance. | | 2. | Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol. | | 3. | Show; appearance; cast. | | 4. | A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea. | | 5. | (Rhet.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor. | | 6. | (Opt.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror. | | v. t. | 1. | To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. | | 2. | To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine. |
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