image
n 1: an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced
images upon her too awful to contemplate" [syn: {mental
image}]
2: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade one presents to the
world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
[syn: {persona}]
3: a visual representation of an object or scene or person
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},
{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}]
5: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: {trope},
{figure of speech}, {figure}]
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}]
7: a likeness 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},
{simulacrum}]
v : imagine; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"
"I can see what will happen" [syn: {visualize}, {envision},
{project}, {fancy}, {see}, {figure}, {picture}]