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Meaning of image

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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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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