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| n. (cognition) | 1. image, mental image | an iconic mental representation.; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" |
| ~ internal representation, mental representation, representation | a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image. |
| ~ imagination image, thought-image | a mental image produced by the imagination. |
| ~ memory image | a mental image of something previously experienced. |
| ~ visual image, visualisation, visualization | a mental image that is similar to a visual perception. |
| ~ mental picture, impression, picture | a clear and telling mental image.; "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent impression in his mind" |
| ~ auditory image | a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. image, persona | (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world.; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" |
| ~ appearance, visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing. |
| ~ psychological science, psychology | the science of mental life. |
| ~ carl gustav jung, carl jung, jung | Swiss psychologist (1875-1961). |
| n. (artifact) | 3. icon, ikon, image, picture | 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" |
| ~ bitmap, electronic image | an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels. |
| ~ chiaroscuro | a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color. |
| ~ collage, montage | a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image.; "he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map" |
| ~ transparency, foil | picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector. |
| ~ computer graphic, graphic | an image that is generated by a computer. |
| ~ iconography | the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject.; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot" |
| ~ inset | a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one. |
| ~ likeness, semblance | picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing. |
| ~ cyclorama, diorama, panorama | a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene. |
| ~ reflection, reflexion | the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material).; "he studied his reflection in the mirror" |
| ~ representation | a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something. |
| ~ cat scan, scan | an image produced by scanning.; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" |
| ~ echogram, sonogram | an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organs. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. epitome, image, paradigm, prototype | a standard or typical example.; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" |
| ~ example, model | a representative form or pattern.; "I profited from his example" |
| ~ concentrate | a concentrated example of something.; "the concentrate of contemporary despair" |
| ~ imago | (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood. |
| n. (communication) | 5. figure, figure of speech, image, trope | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. |
| ~ cakewalk | an easy accomplishment.; "winning the tournament was a cakewalk for him"; "invading Iraq won't be a cakewalk" |
| ~ blind alley | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement.; "all the clues led the police into blind alleys"; "so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley" |
| ~ megahit, smash hit, blockbuster | an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel). |
| ~ sleeper | an unexpected hit.; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer" |
| ~ home run, bell ringer, bull's eye, mark | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal.; "the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer"; "scored a bull's eye"; "hit the mark"; "the president's speech was a home run" |
| ~ housecleaning | (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions.; "more housecleaning is in store at other accounting firms"; "many employees were discharged in a general housecleaning by the new owners" |
| ~ goldbrick | anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless. |
| ~ lens | (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood.; "the writer is the lens through which history can be seen" |
| ~ rhetorical device | a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance). |
| ~ conceit | an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things. |
| ~ irony | a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs. |
| ~ exaggeration, hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration. |
| ~ kenning | conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry. |
| ~ metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. |
| ~ metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads'). |
| ~ oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence'). |
| ~ prosopopoeia, personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature. |
| ~ simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as'). |
| ~ synecdoche | substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa. |
| ~ zeugma | use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one.; "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma" |
| ~ domino effect | the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall). |
| ~ flip side | a different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect).; "the flip side of your positive qualities sometimes get out of control"; "on the flip side of partnerships he talked about their competition" |
| ~ period | the end or completion of something.; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" |
| ~ summer | the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty.; "the golden summer of his life" |
| ~ dawn | an opening time period.; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" |
| ~ evening | a later concluding time period.; "it was the evening of the Roman Empire" |
| ~ rainy day | a (future) time of financial need.; "I am saving for a rainy day" |
| n. (person) | 6. double, image, look-alike | someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor).; "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ clone, dead ringer, ringer | a person who is almost identical to another. |
| n. (group) | 7. image, range, range of a function | (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" |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ set | (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols.; "the set of prime numbers is infinite" |
| n. (attribute) | 8. image | 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" |
| ~ effect, impression | an outward appearance.; "he made a good impression"; "I wanted to create an impression of success"; "she retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting" |
| n. (artifact) | 9. effigy, image, simulacrum | 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" |
| ~ guy | an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day. |
| ~ graven image, idol, god | a material effigy that is worshipped.; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god" |
| ~ representation | a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something. |
| ~ bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man, strawman | an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds. |
| ~ wax figure, waxwork | an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax. |
| v. (perception) | 10. image | render visible, as by means of MRI. |
| ~ visualise, visualize | view the outline of by means of an X-ray.; "The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver" |
| v. (creation) | 11. envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize | 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" |
| ~ realize, see, understand, realise | perceive (an idea or situation) mentally.; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" |
| ~ visualise, visualize | form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract.; "Mathematicians often visualize" |
| ~ conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" |
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