Image
Image (im"aj; 48) , noun
[French, from Latin imago, imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. See Imitate, and compare 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.
Even like a stony image, cold and numb.
Whose is this image and superscription?
This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna.
And God created man in his own image.
2.
Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol. — Chaucer
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,... thou shalt not bow down thyself to them.
3.
Show; appearance; cast.
The face of things a frightful image bears.
4.
A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
Can we conceive
Image of aught delightful, soft, or great?
5.
(Rhetoric) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor. — Brande & C
6.
(Optics) 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.
Collocations (6)
Electrical image , See under Electrical.
Image breaker , one who destroys images; an iconoclast.
Image graver or 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
Image (im"aj; 48) , transitive verb
1.
To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
Shrines of imaged saints.
2.
To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more.