What (who) is images - definition
Images (disambiguation)
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Images (album); Images album
Images are artifacts that depict visual perception, such as photographs or other two-dimensional pictures.
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![Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']] shows the [[Teide]] volcano. The city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is visible as the purple and white area on the lower right edge of the island. Lava flows at the summit crater appear in shades of green and brown, while vegetation zones appear as areas of purple, green, and yellow on the volcano's flanks.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TEIDE.JPG?width=200 "Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']] shows the [[Teide]] volcano. The city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is visible as the purple and white area on the lower right edge of the island. Lava flows at the summit crater appear in shades of green and brown, while vegetation zones appear as areas of purple, green, and yellow on the volcano's flanks.")
![aurora australis]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aurora australis 20050911.jpg?width=200 "aurora australis]]")
![An aurora as seen by the Far-Ultraviolet (FUV) imager during the [[Bastille Day event]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aurora as seen by IMAGE.PNG?width=200 "An aurora as seen by the Far-Ultraviolet (FUV) imager during the [[Bastille Day event]].")
ARTIFACT THAT DEPICTS OR RECORDS VISUAL PERCEPTION
Picture; Pictures; Pictorial; Piccas; Pitcure; Picture!; 3D image; Still image; Picture function; Pikturs; Image (artifact); Optical Image; Optical image; Images; Pictorial works; Pictorial work; 🖼; Volatile image; Pictorial script; 2D image; Three-dimensional images
(images)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you have an image of something or someone, you have a picture or idea of them in your mind.
The image of art theft as a gentleman's crime is outdated...
N-COUNT: usu with supp
2.
The image of a person, group, or organization is the way that they appear to other people.
The tobacco industry has been trying to improve its image.
N-COUNT: oft with poss
3.
An image is a picture of someone or something. (FORMAL)
...photographic images of young children...
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4.
An image is a poetic description of something. (FORMAL)
The natural images in the poem are meant to be suggestive of realities beyond themselves.
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5.
If you are the image of someone else, you look very much like them.
Marianne's son was the image of his father.
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
see also mirror image
image
ARTIFACT THAT DEPICTS OR RECORDS VISUAL PERCEPTION
Picture; Pictures; Pictorial; Piccas; Pitcure; Picture!; 3D image; Still image; Picture function; Pikturs; Image (artifact); Optical Image; Optical image; Images; Pictorial works; Pictorial work; 🖼; Volatile image; Pictorial script; 2D image; Three-dimensional images
¦ noun
1. a representation of the external form of a person or thing in art.
a visible impression obtained by a camera, telescope, or other device, or displayed on a video screen.
an optical appearance produced by light from an object reflected in a mirror or refracted through a lens.
a mental picture.
(in biblical use) an idol.
2. the general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public.
3. a simile or metaphor.
4. a person or thing closely resembling another.
likeness.
5. Mathematics a point or set formed by mapping from another point or set.
¦ verb make or form an image of.
Derivatives
imageless adjective
Origin
ME: from OFr., from L. imago; related to imitate.
Pronunciation examples for images
1. image plus depth image.
The Plastic Tide _ Peter Kohler & Stefan Leutenegger _ Talks at Google
2. These images, those images
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3. images.
The Psychology of The Button
4. images.
New Galaxy Formation Insights _ Joel Primack _ Talks at Google
5. Images.
Why is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling _ Lama Tsomo _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of images
1. "We have all been socialised with the same images but we interpret those images differently.
2. Images of torture The court heard 13 of these images were classed as the most serious level of depravity and included some images of torture.
3. "These images from a moon of Saturn look just like radar images of Namibia or Arabia.
4. Then the PAN began filling the airwaves with grainy images of Chávez, alongside images of López Obrador.
5. "These are horrible images but within each of those images is a story," Minneapolis Mayor R T Rybak said.