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Noun image has 7 senses
  1. image, mental image - an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
    --1 is a kind of representation, mental representation, internal representation
    --1 has particulars:
     imagination image, thought-image; memory image; visual image, visualization, visualisation; mental picture, picture, impression; auditory image
    Derived form: verb image1
  2. picture, image, icon, ikon - 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"
    --2 is a kind of representation
    --2 has particulars:
     bitmap, electronic image; chiaroscuro; collage, montage; foil, transparency; iconography; inset; likeness, semblance; panorama, cyclorama, diorama; photograph, photo, exposure, pic; reflection, reflexion; scan, CAT scan; sonogram
    Derived form: verb image1
  3. persona, image - (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
    --3 is a kind of appearance, visual aspect
  4. prototype, paradigm, epitome, image - a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
    --4 is a kind of model, example
    --4 has particulars: concentrate; imago
  5. trope, figure of speech, figure, image - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
    --5 is a kind of rhetorical device
    --5 has particulars:
     irony; hyperbole, exaggeration; kenning; metaphor; metonymy; oxymoron; personification, prosopopoeia; simile; synecdoche; zeugma
  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"
    --6 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
    --6 has particulars: ringer, dead ringer, clone
  7. 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"
    --7 is a kind of representation
    --7 has particulars:
     Guy; idol, graven image, god; scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer; waxwork, wax figure
    Derived form: verb image1
,Verb image has 1 sense
  1. visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image - 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"
    --1 is one way to imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
    Derived forms: noun image1, noun image7, noun image2, noun imaging1, noun imagery1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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