Definition of image

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Image (n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor..

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Iconomical :: Iconomical (a.) Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship.
Redundant :: Redundant (a.) Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart.
Image :: Image (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..
Photogene :: Photogene (n.) A more or less continued impression or image on the retina.
Image :: Image (v. t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
Antic :: Antic (n.) An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure..
Iconolater :: Iconolater (n.) One who worships images.
Phantasmagoria :: Phantasmagoria (n.) Fig.: A medley of figures; illusive images.
Dipleidoscope :: Dipleidoscope (n.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian..
Camera Lucida :: Camera lucida () An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope..
Optography :: Optography (n.) The production of an optogram on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye. The object so photographed shows white on a purple or red background. See Visual purple, under Visual..
Iconomachy :: Iconomachy (n.) Hostility to images as objects of worship.
Pilgrimize :: Pilgrimize (v. i.) To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.
Figure :: Figure (n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement..
Pilgrimage :: Pilgrimage (n.) A tedious and wearisome time.
Iconodulist :: Iconodulist (n.) One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast.
Iconoclasm :: Iconoclasm (n.) The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.
Anamorphosis :: Anamorphosis (n.) A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image..
Iconolatry :: Iconolatry (n.) The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves..
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