Meaning of image in English

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Verb
image
Definitions
1. imagine
Examples
- « 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 »
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Noun
image
Etymology
Middle English: from Old French, from Latin imago; related to imitate
Definitions
1. an iconic mental representation
Examples
- « her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate »
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2. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
Examples
- « they showed us the pictures of their wedding »
- « a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them »
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3. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
Examples
- « a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty »
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4. a standard or typical example
Examples
- « he is the prototype of good breeding »
- « he provided America with an image of the good father »
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5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
6. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
Examples
- « he could be Gingrich's double »
- « she's the very image of her mother »
7. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
Examples
- « the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln »
- « the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone »
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« Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. »
E. B. White
« Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. »
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« Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. »
Gilbert K. Chesterton
« Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? »
Desmond Tutu