Image ˈɪmɪdʒ Somebody/Something Extra Examples Public I Digital

• most simple leaflets will include text and images.
• we already have more than 22  000 digital images on file.
• the visual image is steadily replacing the written word.
• images of deer and hunters decorate the cave walls.

image

1. a picture, photograph or statue that represents somebody/something
• SEE ALSO graven image
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/graven-image
• Most simple leaflets will include text and images.
• We already have more than 22  000 digital images on file.
• The visual image is steadily replacing the written word.
• Images of deer and hunters decorate the cave walls.
• Consider the images of war that fill the pages of our newspapers.
• a wooden image of the Hindu god Ganesh
• An exhibition of images of St Nicholas is on display in the cathedral.
• In the Bible it states that humans were created in the image of God.

Extra Examples

• It was forbidden to worship graven images.
• The display juxtaposed images from serious and popular art.
• a live close-up image of her face
• humorous posters bearing an image of a squatting dog
• powerful and disturbing images of the war
• the painted image of a human being
• traditional images of motherhood
2. a picture of somebody/something seen in a mirror, through a camera, or on a television, computer, phone, etc.
• SEE ALSO mirror image
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/mirror-image
• He stared at his own image reflected in the water.
• Slowly, an image began to appear on the screen.
• Click on the image for a larger version.
• Police will study the images from CCTV cameras.
• The camera captured an image of the suspect and his car.
• The satellite provides high-resolution images of the Earth's surface.
• The image quality is too low.

Extra Examples

• After exposure a faint image is visible.
• Each illustration is displayed as a complete screen image.
• She longed to capture the image on film.
• The process uses silver plates rather than film to create an image.
• The devices are capable of enlarging the image.
• The machine can capture a three-dimensional image of a patient's heart.
• They can connect directly to the image files and allow the customer to view them.
• Under each thumbnail image is a link to a larger illustration.
• Visitors can view live radar images and listen in to the control tower.
• You can store these images in a separate computer file.
• heat images that show where most of the activity in the brain is
• the pixel information used to display a digital image
• the use of still and moving video images
• In real life she looks nothing like her screen image.
• satellite images of Hurricane Floyd posted on NASA's website
3. the impression that a person, an organization, a product, etc. gives to the public
• His public image is very different from the real person.
• The advertisements are intended to improve the company's image.
• Image is very important in the music world.
• It was years before the country was able to project an image of stability again.
• The campaign aims to create a new image for the city.
• stereotyped images of women in children’s books
• to have a positive/negative image
• The company changed its name on the advice of an image consultant.

Extra Examples

• Champagne houses owe their success to brand image.
• Eastwood maintained an image as a tough guy.
• He's a good player with a clean image.
• She is now seeking to soften her image for voters.
• The company needs to create a new image for itself.
• The group has failed to live up to its macho image.
• The industry is trying to shed its negative image.
• The party needs to clean up its somewhat tarnished image.
• an effort to improve the organization's public image
• The advertisements are intended to improve the company's image.
• Firms of all sizes expend resources to maintain a positive public image.
• Unfortunately, in today's world, image is everything.
4. a mental picture that you have of what somebody/something is like or looks like
• SEE ALSO after-image
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/after-image
• images of the past
• I had a mental image of what she would look like.
• Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless cottage cheese salads.

Extra Examples

• He didn't fit my image of the boss.
• He started to recall images from his past.
• I like to build up images of the characters and setting before I start to write.
• It leaves indelible images imprinted on your mind.
• Samba always seems to conjure up images of Brazil.
• The history books built up a false image of an unpopular president.
• I always had an image of her standing by that window gazing out.
• He represents the perfect image of a clean-living college boy.
• Treating disabled people like children only reinforces negative images of disability.
5. a word or phrase used with a different meaning from its normal one, in order to describe something in a way that produces a strong picture in the mind
• Her writings are full of poetic images of the countryside.
6. to look very like somebody/something else
• SEE ALSO spitting image
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/spitting-image_1
• He's the image of his father.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French, from Latin imago; related to imitate.