Image vs. Imagery

Imagenoun

An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.

Imagenoun

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

Imagenoun

A statue or idol.

Imagenoun

(computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image, executable image and image copy.)

Imagenoun

A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.

Imagenoun

(mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.

Imagenoun

(mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.

Imagenoun

(obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.

Imageverb

(transitive) To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.

Imageverb

(transitive) To reflect, mirror.

Imageverb

(transitive) To create an image of.

Imageverb

To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Imagenoun

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.

Imagenoun

Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.

Imagenoun

Show; appearance; cast.

Imagenoun

A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.

Imagenoun

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

Imagenoun

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.

Imageverb

To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.

Imageverb

To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.

Imagenoun

an iconic mental representation;

Imagenoun

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

Imagenoun

(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world;

Imagenoun

a standard or typical example;

Imagenoun

language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Imagenoun

someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor);

Imagenoun

a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture);

Imageverb

imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

Imagenoun

a representation of the external form of a person or thing in art

Imagenoun

a visible impression obtained by a camera, telescope, microscope, or other device, or displayed on a computer or video screen

Imagenoun

an optical appearance or counterpart produced by light from an object reflected in a mirror or refracted through a lens.

Imagenoun

a point or set formed by mapping from another point or set.

Imagenoun

an exact copy of a computer's hard disk, made for backing up data or setting up new machines.

Imagenoun

a mental representation or idea

Imagenoun

a person or thing that closely resembles another

Imagenoun

semblance or likeness

Imagenoun

(in biblical use) an idol.

Imagenoun

the general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public

Imagenoun

a simile or metaphor

Imageverb

make a representation of the external form of

Imageverb

make a visual representation of (something) by scanning it with a detector or electromagnetic beam.

Imageverb

make an exact copy of (a computer's hard disk)

Imageverb

form a mental picture or idea of

Image

An image (from Latin: imago) is an artifact that depicts visual perception, such as a photograph or other two-dimensional picture, that resembles a subject—usually a physical object—and thus provides a depiction of it. In the context of signal processing, an image is a distributed amplitude of color(s).

Imagerynoun

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.

Imagerynoun

Imitation work.

Imagerynoun

Images in general, or en masse.

Imagerynoun

(figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

Imagerynoun

The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

Imagerynoun

Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

Imagerynoun

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

Imagerynoun

Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

Imagerynoun

The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

Imagerynoun

Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

Imagerynoun

the ability to form mental images of things or events;

Imagerynoun

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

Imagerynoun

visual symbolism

Imagerynoun

visual images collectively

Imagery

Part of the figurative language in a literary work, whereby the author uses vivid images to describe a phenomenon