Patterning and Image

noun

• An iconic mental representation.
  • usage: "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
  • synonyms: mental image
• Jungian psychology. ( a personal facade that one presents to the world)
  • usage: "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
  • synonyms: persona
• A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.
  • usage: "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
  • synonyms: picture, icon, ikon
• A standard or typical example.
  • usage: "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
  • synonyms: prototype, paradigm, epitome
• Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
  • synonyms: trope, figure of speech, figure
• Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor. )
  • usage: "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"
  • synonyms: double, look-alike
• Mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined. (
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: range, range of a function
• The general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public.
  • usage: "although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry"; "the company tried to project an altruistic image"
• A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture. )
  • usage: "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"
  • synonyms: effigy, simulacrum

verb

• Render visible, as by means of MRI.
• Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.
  • usage: "I can't see him on horseback"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
  • synonyms: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture

• (n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
• (n.) A picture, example or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
• (n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.
• (n.) An imitation, representation or similitude of any person, thing or act, sculptured, drawn, painted or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
• (n.) Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
• (n.) Show; appearance; cast.
• (v.t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
• (v.t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.