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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Image \Im"age\ ([i^]m"[asl]j; 48), n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. See {Imitate}, and cf. {Imagine}.] 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. [1913 Webster] Even like a stony image, cold and numb. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Whose is this image and superscription? --Matt. xxii. 20. [1913 Webster] This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. --Shak. [1913 Webster] And God created man in his own image. --Gen. i. 27. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. --Ex. xx. 4, 5. [1913 Webster] 3. Show; appearance; cast. [1913 Webster] The face of things a frightful image bears. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea. [1913 Webster] Can we conceive Image of aught delightful, soft, or great? --Prior. [1913 Webster] 5. (Rhet.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor. --Brande & C. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] {Electrical image}. See under {Electrical}. {Image breaker}, one who destroys images; an iconoclast. {Image graver}, {Image maker}, a sculptor. {Image worship}, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves. {Image Purkinje} (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane. {Virtual image} (Optics), a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens. --Clerk Maxwell. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Image \Im"age\ ([i^]m"[asl]j; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imaged} ([i^]m"[asl]jd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. {Imaging}.] 1. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. "Shrines of imaged saints." --J. Warton. [1913 Webster] 2. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine. [1913 Webster] Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. --Pope. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: image n 1: an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" [syn: {image}, {mental image}] 2: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" [syn: {persona}, {image}] 3: 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" [syn: {picture}, {image}, {icon}, {ikon}] 4: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" [syn: {prototype}, {paradigm}, {epitome}, {image}] 5: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: {trope}, {figure of speech}, {figure}, {image}] 6: someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" [syn: {double}, {image}, {look-alike}] 7: (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" [syn: {image}, {range}, {range of a function}] 8: 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" 9: 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" [syn: {effigy}, {image}, {simulacrum}] v 1: render visible, as by means of MRI 2: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: {visualize}, {visualise}, {envision}, {project}, {fancy}, {see}, {figure}, {picture}, {image}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: image /imaʒ/ image; picture From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Image /imitʃ/ image