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单词 image
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imagenoun

uk/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/us/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/

image noun (MENTAL PICTURE)

C2 [ C ] a picture in your mind or an idea of how someone or something is:

I have an image in my mind of how I want the garden to be.
He doesn't fit (= he is different to) my image of how an actor should look.

B2 [ C or U ] the way that something or someone is thought of by other people:

The aim is to improve the public image of the police.
The company has made strenuous attempts to improve its image in recent years.
He's terribly image-conscious (= tries to dress and behave in a way that other people will admire).

[ C ] specialized literature a mental picture or idea that forms in a reader's or listener's mind from the words that they read or hear:

The poem is full of images of birth and new life.

More examples

  • I can't get that dreadful image out of my mind.
  • Recently the president has sought to project a much tougher image.
  • For some people, the word 'England' may still conjure up images of pretty gardens and tea parties.
  • The city is trying to shrug off its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
  • Water, a symbol of life, recurs as an image throughout her poems.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Imagining and conceiving

  • a reach of the imagination idiom
  • assume
  • blue-sky
  • conceivable
  • conceive
  • conceptualize
  • dream
  • feel
  • fertile
  • foundation
  • grant
  • look on/upon sb/sth as sth
  • mind
  • picture
  • presumption
  • put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
  • reckon
  • riot
  • suspicion
  • vision

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Conditions and characteristics
Ideas, concepts and theories

image noun (PICTURE)

B2 [ C ] any picture, especially one formed by a mirror or a lens:

television images of starving children
The image you see in the mirror.

More examples

  • Television confronts the viewer with a succession of glittering and seductive images.
  • Their pilots are guided by an infrared optical system that shows images clearly even at night.
  • You can use the device to scan the image and reproduce it on-screen in an electronic format.
  • One of the film's many unsettling images is of a child playing with her father's gun.
  • Can you improve the sharpness of the image at all?

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Physics: optics, microscopy & lasers

  • binoculars
  • chromatic aberration
  • converging lens
  • diffuse reflection
  • electron microscope
  • field glasses
  • focus
  • laser
  • laser-guided
  • magnification
  • magnifier
  • magnify
  • magnifying glass
  • microscopy
  • opera glasses
  • powerful
  • reflective
  • resolution
  • slide
  • transparency

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Pictures

Idiom(s)

be the (living/spitting) image of sb
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