| 单词 | image |
| 释义 | image (once / 81 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n An image is a picture or other representation of a person or thing, or it can be someone's public perception, like a rock star who tries to change his image by dressing like a professor and learning to play chess. Image has its roots in the Latin word imitari, meaning "to copy or imitate"; images are judged by how realistically they capture the person or thing they show. Images come in various forms — portraits, photographs, paintings, and sculptures. Another kind of image is what we think a public figure like a celebrity is "really like." For example, a flat-broke former millionaire who wants to maintain his image as the money-spending life of the party. WORD FAMILYimage: imaged, imagery, images, imaging, imagism+/imagery: imageries/imaging: imagings USAGE EXAMPLESAt one point in the season, the two teams appeared to be mirror images of each other. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) “A measurement is just a number. But a visual image of what they look like, rather than their imagination, is much more motivating.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) “Helping them maintain their body image is a huge part of treatment.” Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) 1 1n a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them Syn|Hypo|Hyper icon, ikon, picture bitmap, electronic image an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels chiaroscuroa monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color collage, montagea paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image foil, transparencypicture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector computer graphic, graphican image that is generated by a computer iconographythe images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject inseta small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one likeness, semblancepicture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing cyclorama, diorama, panoramaa picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene reflection, reflexionthe image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material) CAT scan, scanan image produced by scanning echogram, sonograman 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 grisaillechiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief Identikit, Identikit picturea likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought photomontagea montage that uses photographic images portrait, portrayalany likeness of a person, in any medium lantern slide, slidea transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector overhead, viewgrapha transparency for use with an overhead projector representation a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something 2n a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone Syn|Hypo|Hyper effigy, simulacrum Guy an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day god, graven image, idola material effigy that is worshipped bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man, strawmanan effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds wax figure, waxworkan effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax golden calf(Old Testament) an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites to worship; destroyed by Moses; it is now used to refer to anything worshipped undeservedly jossa Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol Juggernauta crude idol of Krishna representation a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something 3n someone who closely resembles another person (especially an actor) she's the very image of her mother Syn|Hypo|Hyper double, look-alike clone, dead ringer, ringer a person who is almost identical to another individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 4n a standard or typical example he provided America with an image of the good father Syn|Hypo|Hyper epitome, paradigm, prototype concentrate a concentrated example of something imago(psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood example, model a representative form or pattern 5n 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 Hyper effect, impression an outward appearance 6n (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty Syn|Hyper persona appearance, visual aspect outward or visible aspect of a person or thing 7v render visible, as by means of MRI 2Hyper visualise, visualize view the outline of by means of an X-ray 1n an iconic mental representation her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate Syn|Hypo|Hyper mental image imagination image, thought-image a mental image produced by the imagination memory imagea mental image of something previously experienced visual image, visualisation, visualizationa mental image that is similar to a visual perception impression, mental picture, picturea clear and telling mental image auditory imagea mental image that is similar to an auditory perception memory picturea memory image that is similar to a visual perception afterimage, aftersensationan image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased internal representation, mental representation, representation a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image 2n language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense Syn|Hypo|Hyper figure, figure of speech, trope conceit an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things ironya trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs exaggeration, hyperboleextravagant exaggeration kenningconventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry metaphora 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 metonymysubstituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') oxymoronconjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence') personification, prosopopoeiarepresenting an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature similea figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') synecdochesubstituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa zeugmause of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one dramatic irony(theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play dead metaphor, frozen metaphora metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake') mixed metaphora combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect synesthetic metaphora metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities metalepsissubstituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another syllepsisuse of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) 3v imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind 3Syn|Hyper envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize realise, realize, see, understand perceive (an idea or situation) mentally visualise, visualizeform a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case n (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|Hyper range, range of a function set (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols |
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