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/ˈɪmɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈɪmɪdʒ/ 1. An artificial imitation or representation of something, esp. of a person or the bust of a person.† c. A constellation, regarded as a figure or delineation of a person, animal, or symbolic object. Obsolete.
a. Such an imitation in solid form; a statue, effigy, sculptured figure. Often: a figure of a saint or divinity as an object of religious veneration.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue
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c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) l. 1465 (MED) Ichulle leten makien þe of gold an ymage, as cwen icrunet.
c1300 St. Laurence (Laud) l. 16 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 340 (MED) Huy..scheweden heom heore false hymages and beden heom a-loute þar-to.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2298 For freind ded þat þam was dere did make ymage o metal sere.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Exod. xx. 4 Thou schalt not make to thee a grauun ymage..thou schalt not herie tho, nether thou schalt worschipe.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 109 An ymage þat hath .iiij. hedes.
c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 1330 With the ymage of godde Hamoune þerin wroght craftily.
c1480 (a1400) St. Agnes 387 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 357 Þan vent he to þe ymag in hy, & mad hire prayere deuotely.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xv. 20 Abstayne them selves from filthines of ymages [ Wyclif symulacris; 1611 Idoles].
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Agst. Idolatry i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 178 We should not have images in the temple for fear and occasion of worshipping them.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 8 The Inchantresse having made two Images of her beloved, the one of clay, the other of waxe.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. iv. 384 Gregory the second [was] strenuous for the worship of images.
1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 38 Thus loaded with a feast the tables stood, Each shrining in the midst the image of a God.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 379 Graven and molten images, the idols which men adore..shall be their destruction.
1923 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 68/2 The image of the saint, an ugly, garishly colored wooden statue shiny with varnish, is carried in a coach all paint and gilt.
1988 B. Sidhwa Ice-candy-man xxvii. 222 The queen wove temple saris for the various goddesses, stuck flowers in their images.
1998 M. Warner No Go Bogeyman (2000) Epil. 377 Any number of icons, statues and devotional images, large and small (let alone relics), have dropped blood, sweat, and tears.
b. Such an imitation delineated, painted, executed in relief, stamped, or otherwise produced on a surface; a likeness, portrait, picture, carving, or the like.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation
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c1300 Pilate (Harl.) l. 142 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 115 Þo he þe ymage [on Veronica's kerchief] iseȝ he was [h]ol anon.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxii. 20 Whos is this ymage [L. imago], and the wrytyng aboue?
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. i. l. 48 God..asked..whom þe ymage was lyk þat þer-Inne [on the penny] stod.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccvijv The one clothe was embraudered with the image of an old man.
1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 126 Hee gaue them a red banner with the image of the crucifixe painted therein.
1713 R. Steele Guardian No. i. ⁋1 Mr. Airs..has taken care to affix his own image opposite to the title-page.
1839 J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Church (1847) ii. 22 Their coinage of gold and silver with Cæsar's image.
1871 C. Davies Metric Syst. iii. 65 The civil authority stamps its image, to authenticate its weight and alloy.
1938 P. Kavanagh Green Fool xiv. 136 All the constitutional saints of Ireland had their images painted on those banners.
1957 J. Bishop Day Christ Died (1959) 272 The Roman soldiers could not carry votive shields, which bore the image of Caesar, into Jerusalem.
2002 E. A. Gargan River's Tale vi. 201 A plate-shaped fan painted with an image of the Buddha.
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the world > the universe > constellation > [noun]
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1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. xx. 178 The sterres whyche be named ben all fygures on the heuene and compassed by ymages.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. xxxviii. f. 335v The 48. Images of the fixed stars..otherwise called Constellations.
1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) i. §10 The Images called Constellations, drawn upon the Celestial Globe.
1731 J. Harris Descr. & Use Globes Introd. 30 The Starry Firmament was divided by the Antients into 48 Images or Constellations.
1851 S. F. Baird tr. J. G. Heck Iconogr. Encycl. IV. Roman Mythol. 159 The emperor erected a temple and ordained an annual feast to his memory, and placed his image among the constellations.
d. figurative. A person: (a) as simulating the appearance of someone, or considered as unreal; (b) as compared in some respect to a statue or idol; (c) colloquial. archaic as attracting amused or contemptuous attention.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > simulation > [noun] > one who or that which simulates
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > [noun] > a type
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > odd person
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxvijv Hearyng that this feyned duke was come, and had heard that he [sc. Perkin Warbeck] was but a peinted ymage.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 1 Those most miserable men (yea, rather Images, and pictures of men, then very men in dede).
1626 R. Harris Hezekiah's Recov. (1630) 30 It [sc. sickness] turnes him well-most into an Image.
1698 E. Settle Def. Dramatick Poetry 91 If we could suppose that..a speaking Image in a Comedy shall have the same conceptionary Force upon us, as [etc.].
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxiii. 60 Can the pretty Image speak, Mrs. Jervis? I vow she has speaking Eyes.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 193/1 One boy, whose young woman made faces at it..got quite vexed and said, ‘Wot a image you're a-making on yourself!’
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xx. 36 ‘How old are you, Topsy?’ ‘Dun no, Missis’, said the image, with a grin that showed all her teeth.
1880 Punch 25 Dec. 298/2 Uncle Bowpot, the florist, lives here. Sech a rummy old image he is.
1898 J. Conrad Tales of Unrest 138 How goes it, you old image?
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 420/2 You little image, a term of affectionate reproach.
1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave i. 14 Only then did the image come to life: the bare-bosomed girl lifted a wine glass to her crimson lips, gently swinging her apricot-silk leg as a red backless slipper slowly slid off her foot.
1987 Atlantic Mar. 76/2 He came at length, unexpectedly, upon the image of Dino Signorelli, standing alone on a treeless prairie, hatless, leaning into the cold wind.
2.
a. The aspect, appearance, or form of someone or something; semblance, likeness. Now only in allusions to, or uses derived from, biblical language, esp. Genesis 1:26, 27.
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 87 (MED) [God] ous zente his blissede zone..huer-by we byeþ yssape to his ymage.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xv. 49 Therfore as we han born the ymage [L. imaginem] of the ertheli man, bere we and the ymage [L. imaginem] of the heuenly.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12371 Ye þat he has wroght to men..efter his aun ymage.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xciiv Whiche child was iudged..to haue the very ymage..and louely countenaunce of his noble parent.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. i. 27 God created man in his owne Image, in the Image of God created hee him. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) v. ii. 78 By the image of my Cause, I see The Portraiture of his.
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness iii. vi. 70 Apparent as well from what they write of his birth and amours, as from other observables in his Image.
a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1711) III. 347 Drunkenness..razeth out the image of God, and stampeth the image of beasts upon us.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxvii. 43 The affability of his manners displayed the image of his mind.
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia xi. 99 We grow into the image of what we love.
1888 Mind 13 260 Man when developed out of lower forms of life ‘created’ religion and made gods in his image.
1939 W. Y. Tindall D. H. Lawrence & Susan his Cow i. 23 He continued to prophesy and to make prophetical heroes in his image.
1991 J. Diski Happily ever After xvi. 181 One can't be sure about God. How do you know He has good taste? After all, he created Cecil B. De Mille in His image as well as Frank Capra.
b. A visible appearance; a manifestation of a figure; an apparition.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > vision or apparition
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c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxxii. 20 (MED) Lord, as sweuen of men risand oȝains þyn heuen, þou shalt bringen her ymage [L. imaginem] to nouȝt.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. 18 (MED) Whil Bochas pensiff stood sool in his librarie..To hym appered a monstruous ymage.
1530 W. Tyndale Prol. Deut. in Wks. (1573) 22/1 Ye saw no image when God spake vnto you, but heard a voyce onely.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. liijv Yt semed to hym beynge a slepe yt he sawe diuerse ymages lyke terrible deuelles.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 80 Our last King, Whose image euen but now appear'd to vs. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 140 The slipp'ry God will..various Forms assume, to cheat thy sight; And with vain Images of Beasts affright. View more context for this quotation
1842 Ld. Tennyson Mariana in South (rev. ed.) vi, in Poems (new ed.) I. 91 An image seem'd to pass the door, To look at her with slight.
1896 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 8 115 A gentleman,..who claims to have seen the ghost or image of his uncle appear to him at night just before going to bed.
1949 Western Folklore 8 68 The Prince of Denmark was contemplating the image of his father's ghost.
1995 M. Musa tr. L. Pirandello So it is ii. iii, in Six Char. in Search of Author 173 I can see myself and I can touch myself—but you, what do you become, how do other people see you? A ghost, my friend, a ghostly image.
3.
a. A visual representation or counterpart of an object or scene, formed through the interaction of rays of light with a mirror, lens, etc., usually by reflection or refraction.If the rays of light converge at a point, then the image is said to be real; if they appear as if diverging from a point beyond the refracting or reflecting surface, then the image is said to be virtual. A real image can be projected on to a screen placed at this point; this cannot be done with a virtual image. See real adj.2 6, virtual adj. 5.after, double, macro, micro, mirror, multiple image, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > reproducing an image > image produced by
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c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 26 (MED) To-slyfte A[l þy] myrour þou myȝt fol wel, Bote nauȝt þe ymage schefte [read schifte].
c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 160 Þies thyngis bene euel for the syght in the eyȝen: moch lechery for to loke moch on schynynge ymges [?read ymages] and for to rede moch on small letters.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxiiijv As perfectely as I sawe my awne Image in a glasse.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. ii. 6 From gazing upon the Sun, the impression leaves an image of the Sun before our eyes a long time after.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 50 So many reproductions of one thing, like the image of the same face repeated in a multiplying glass.
1785 W. Cowper Poplar Field in Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 53 Nor the Ouse on his bosom their image receives.
1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. ii. 211 The size of an image formed behind a lens is always proportioned to the distance of the image from the lens.
1879 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 170 158 No projection of an image is yet seen on the screen.
1935 G. Greene Eng. made Me iii. 100 He could stand and talk to himself and plume his dusty image in the windows of haberdashers, minding the smiles hardly at all.
1969 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 79 351 Eye clearance is the distance between the outer lens surface and the exit pupil, i.e. the image of the primary formed by the eyepiece.
2001 R. Gregory in R. Catlow & S. Greenfield Cosmic Rays 58 Plane mirrors give no image without a focusing eye, or a camera.
b. A concentration of infrared or heat radiation at a particular point or portion of space, formed through the reflection or refraction of its constituent rays by a lens, reflective surface, etc. Also heat image. rare.
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1800 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 313 We can only ascribe it to a condensation of it [sc. heat] by the refraction of the lens; and, in this case, the thermometer No. 3, by its situation, must have been partly within the reach of the heat-image formed in the focus.
1840 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 130 52 The insulation of the terminal thermic image can hardly be considered in any other light than as a result of absorbent action.
1873 J. Tyndall Six Lect. on Light v. 181 The substantial identity of light and heat..[is proved by] the formation of invisible heat-images.
1995 Guardian 9 May (Educ. section) 11/2 The heat image is focused through a germanium window on to a pyroelectric target placed directly behind it at the end of the vidicon tube.
c. A physical or digital representation of something, originally captured using a camera from visible light, and typically reproduced on paper, displayed on a screen, or stored as a computer file. More generally: any picture or graphic (regardless of origin) displayed on a computer monitor, television, etc., or reproduced in printed form.
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1839 Times 29 Oct. 3/2 The operator must only make use of a small lantern with a coloured glass, in an otherwise perfectly darkened room..in fixing the images produced in the camera obscura.
1869 Amer. Law Reg. 17 5 The photographic apparatus never intentionally falsifies nor do its products ever so fade as to distort the image they present, as do the figures of things committed to the treacherous memory of men.
1891 R. Routledge Discov. & Inventions 19th Cent. (ed. 8) 520 By projection of the different images on a screen from a magic lantern, in rapid succession, he has been able to reproduce the visual appearance of horses trotting, leaping, galloping, etc.
1927 San Antonio (Texas) Express 17 Jan. 8/6 J. L. Baird..has actually exhibited on a screen the crude but identifiable living image of a man transmitted a short distance.
1948 R. R. Karch Graphic Arts Procedures viii. 242 On the paper plate provided for one-run jobs, you can type, write, letter, draw, paint, rule, or trace the image desired in special inks.
1970 Films in Rev. Nov. 521/1 Cassette is a portent of real possibilities... They are little plastic boxes containing spools of tape, or film, on which images, as well as sounds, have been stored.
1989 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 7 vi. 24/1 Color scanning, which lets you digitize a color image using a color scanner, display the image on a computer screen, store it on a hard disk, and output it on a color printer.
2008 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 15 June Unlike analog broadcasts, which may show a fuzzy image with a weak signal, digital TV images may break up or not display at all if the signal is too weak.
d. A visual representation of something formed from invisible radiation by means of radar, ultrasound, X-rays, or other technique, typically for a purpose such as research, medical diagnosis, or reconnaissance.
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1896 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 35 30 We substitute for the gelatine dry plate a highly polished sheet of metal, subjecting it to the action of the X rays in the usual manner, and then seeking to develop the impinged image.
1946 Hammond (Indiana) Times 5 Feb. 1/6 A radar image of the Chicago-Calumet area will be flashed on special screens in the Museum of Science and Industry.
1966 Sci. News Let. 23 Feb. 110/2 Microwave radio transmitters placed along the sides of a runway send an ‘image’ of the runway to a receiver...This microwave image is seen through a semi-transparent screen.
1987 M. Swanwick in J. Clute et al. Interzone: 3rd Anthol. (1988) 147 Cameras telemetered his image in infrared, visual and ultraviolet to Central Accountability.
1993 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. c8/2 The radio waves coming from a celestial object through a single antenna provide the computer with enough information to construct a rough image of the object.
2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey xii. 226 The challenge is to minimize damage to this tissue by reducing the intensity of X-rays needed to form a useful image.
4. A thing or (now esp.) person in which the aspect, form, or character of another is reproduced; an exact likeness; a counterpart, copy.See also living image at living adj., spit and image at spit n.2 3b, spitten image at spitten adj., spitting image at spitting adj. Compounds 2, splitting image at splitting adj. 5.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun]
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > image of a person or thing
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. iv. 4 Crist..is the ymage [L. imago] of God.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 1116 He [sc. God] wil þat he by þe vtrage, þat murtherrt sua his aun ymage.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xxi. l. 328 Þow by-gyledest godes ymage.
a1540 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 346/1 It were better for you to burne those Idolles and to warme this true image of God there by.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 50 I haue bewept a worthy husbands death, And liu'd by looking on his images . View more context for this quotation
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 147 Sleepe is the image of death.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 124 Hollow Rocks that..doubled Images of Voice rebound. View more context for this quotation
1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell i. 18 She beheld in him the Fairest Draught and Image of her Father, both inwardly and outwardly.
1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus i. ii. 27 I have loved, and lived, and multiplied my image.
1873 M. Finley Elsie's Girlhood iv. 56 He is a pretty boy, and is going to be the very image of his father.
1896 Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 184 In ourselves the external and the internal worlds meet, and we are the image and embodiment of both.
1925 E. Sherson London's Lost Theatres of Nineteenth Cent. iv. 60 An actor named Gomersal impersonated both Wellington and Napoleon. He was considered the very image of the French Emperor.
1975 H. Wrigglesworth in R. M. Dorson Folktales told around World (1978) 263 The baby was a girl. Indeed the child was the image of her mother.
1980 R. Hingley tr. A. Chekhov Oxford Chekhov IV. 93 And isn't he like his mother—her very image, he is.
2005 E. Flanagan Usual Mistakes 195 He's over by the punch bowl, the absolute image of Martha—only taller—with her short, dark hair and immense, symmetrical eyebrows.
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a. A mental representation of something (esp. a visible object) created not by direct perception but by memory or imagination; a mental picture or impression; an idea, conception. Also: (with modifying adjective) a mental representation due to any of the senses (not only sight) or to organic sensations.See also body image n. at body n. Compounds 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun] > product of perception
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun]
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun]
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > image held in memory > [noun]
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 4876 So as him thoghte in his corage, Where he pourtreieth hire ymage.
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. met. iv. l. 7 Stoyciens..wenden that ymages and sensibilites (that is to seyn, sensible ymaginaciouns..) weren enprientid into soules fro bodyes withoute-forth.
1534 tr. L. Valla Treat. Donation vnto Syluester sig. D I call and speke vnto you Kynges and Princes (for it is harde for a priuate man which is in none offyce or auctorite to conceyue the Image of a royall and princely mynde).
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xix. 30 Conceipts are images representing that which is spoken of.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 18 Such..all true Louers are, Vnstaid and skittish..Saue in the constant image of the creature That is belou'd. View more context for this quotation
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy Pref. sig. A4v I have only cited such Verses as have given us some Image of the Place.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. i. 13 She..endeavoured to dismiss his image from her mind.
1874 J. Sully Sensation & Intuition 87 The current of images that daily sweep through consciousness.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ix. 266 A deaf and dumb man can weave his tactile and visual images into a system of thought quite as effective and rational as that of a word-user.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xiv. 592 We then saw no need of optical and auditory images to interpret optical and auditory sensations by.
1897 tr. T. A. Ribot Psychol. Emotions xi. 145 In the two following cases the ‘olfactory image’ only exists in a single instance.
1899 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 25 Haptical images, beside being vague and ill defined, offer peculiar difficulties.
1904 E. B. Titchener in Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 38 I have no doubt, in my own case, of the existence of visual and auditory images... I have no doubt, from the reports of others, of the existence of free kinaesthetic images, verbal or other.
1930 C. Williams War in Heaven xvii. 241 Remember the man you slew; keep his image in your mind.
1958 Philos. Rev. 67 390 I am classifying the so-called mescaline hallucinations (or sensory images) here with hypnagogic-like images.
1997 S. Scislowski Not all of us were Brave ii. 120 The sight etched itself on my memory to the extent that I had a tough time shaking the gruesome image out of my mind.
2004 Church Times 30 Jan. 13/2 One scientist talked about the balance between our sensory image of the world, and the image we have of it that is based on imagination and memory.
b. A concept or impression, created in the minds of the public, of a particular person, institution, product, etc.; spec. a favourable impression; often in public image.This sense was propagated in advertising in the late 1950s. See also brand-image n., corporate image n. at corporate adj., adv., and n. Compounds 2, party image n. at party n. Compounds 3a.
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corporate identity1830
image1908
1908 G. K. Chesterton All Things Considered 179 When courtiers sang the praises of a King they attributed to him things that were entirely improbable... Between the King and his public image there was really no relation.
1908 G. Wallas Human Nature in Politics ii. 84 A party..is primarily a name, which, like other names, calls up when it is heard or seen an ‘image’ that shades imperceptibly into the voluntary realisation of its meaning... Emotional reactions can be set up by the name and its automatic mental associations.
1939 Winnipeg Free Press 11 Nov. 9/3 The private Stalin, the human being under the fearsome public image.
1946 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 51 557 Analysis of the interviews indicated that the public image of Smith as a ‘patriot nonpareil’ played an important role in the process of persuasion.
1958 J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society xiii. 152 The first task of the public relations man, on taking over a business client, is to ‘re-engineer’ his image to include something besides the production of goods.
1959 I. Ross Image Merchants (1960) i. 17 ‘Image’ is perhaps the favorite noun in public relations..whether the image be that of a corporation, an industry, a product.
1961 Listener 2 Nov. 732/2 He [sc. John Reith] created what in modern jargon would be called a public image of the B.B.C. Programmes moved with smooth efficiency..behind a screen of anonymity.
1971 Physics Bull. Jan. 12/3 The ivory tower image dies hard even though few academic physicists can succeed these days in research without establishing wide contacts outside their own departments.
1988 R. K. Weaver Automatic Govt. v. 94 Policymakers will make their decisions on a program primarily on the basis of how these decisions influence public images of them as being fair, compassionate, and fiscally responsible.
2007 N.Y. Mag. 13 Aug. 16/1 In the era of the YouTube election..the pressure on candidates to keep an iron grip on their image is extreme.
6.
a. A representation of something to the mind by speech or writing; a vivid or graphic description.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > graphic or vivid > a vivid description
imagec1522
picture1531
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word picture1835
photograph1841
pen portrait1850
c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 84 I shal put the a more ernest ymage of our condicion.
1581 J. Derricke (title) The image of Irelande.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 227 This play is The image of a murder done in guyana.
1677 J. Bullock Testimony against Quakers False-doctr. (title page) A testimony against the Quakers False-doctrine, and the image they have set up. Being a defence of the book called Antichrist transformed... And for better information, the image is hereto annexed verbatim, with the subscribers thereof.
1692 King James II Royal Tracts (title page) Imago regis, or, The sacred image of His Majesty, in his solitudes and sufferings, written during his retirements in France.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 332 Theocritus..has only given a plain image of the Way of Life amongst the Peasants.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Sibylline Leaves (1862) 129 In a casual illustration [he] introduces the image of woman, child, or bird.
1896 Mod. Lang. Notes 11 249 The poet who wishes to give in his productions an image of life.
1962 R. M. Ohmann Shaw ii. i. 46 He proffers an image of Shaw the outrager of bourgeois sensibilities.
1999 B. J. Ward Contempl. Flowers 315 In addition to using the legitimate name canker rose, Shakespeare also raises the image of petals diseased by canker.
b. A simile, metaphor, or other figure of speech that suggests a picture to the mind.
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1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. f.vi Icon, called of the latines Imago, an Image in Englyshe, is muche lyke to a similitude.
1676 T. Hobbes in tr. Homer Iliads To Rdr. The perfection and curiosity of descriptions, which the ancient writers of eloquence call icones, that is images.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 4. ⁋7 Incongruous combinations of images.
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles vi. 183 To speak of death as a sleep, is an image common..to all languages.
1896 Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 260 The image of the Creator walking in the garden..the angels with flaming swords to prevent return—all these are splendid..images, but they are images none the less.
1933 Rev. Eng. Stud. 9 140 Hilton, using exactly the same metaphor, applies the image of beams of light piercing a cloud to an earlier stage of contemplation.
1973 D. Coltman tr. J. Varenne Yoga & Hindu Trad. (1977) ii. v. 67 So yoga, following the image through, will be one of the methods employed to cut through the net.
1995 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 Feb. 1/1 The tunnel remains just a motif, a poetic image occasionally stumbled into in the midst of other things.
7. With of.
a. A thing that stands for or is taken to stand for something else; a symbol, emblem.
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form?c1225
figurea1340
likeness1340
print1340
nebshaftc1350
resemblancea1393
visagea1400
similitude?a1425
representationc1450
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idea1531
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similitudeness1547
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living image1565
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counter-figure1573
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configurationa1676
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personation1851
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zoomorph1883
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. iv. sig. Ziii In vertue may be nothing fucate or counterfayte: But therein is onely the image of veritie called symplicitie.
?1566 J. Alday tr. P. Boaistuau Theatrum Mundi sig. E ij Bloud..whiche is..the image and figure of sinne.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 13 The silent Moone..constant image of the worlds inconstancie.
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 164 The name is a note, signe, image, or symboll noting, and representing the nature of the thing.
1755 J. Hervey Theron & Aspasio xiii. 212 A Malefactor, begging his Life at the Knees of his Sovereign; and discontinuing his Suit, in order to..pursue a Butterfly; is but a faint Image of the Vanity which attends our devotional Services.
1791 J. Trapp tr. J. W. von Archenholz Picture of Italy I. i. 8 Their carrying the dead uncovered to the grave..is an instructive, striking image of the vanity of human life.
1803 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. II. 248 This noisome dungeon..affords..an image of the gate of Tartarus, rather than the porch of Paradise.
a1835 F. D. Hemans Wks. (1839) VII. 140 Many a sculptured rose—The tenderest image of mortality.
1919 R. Lynd Old & New Masters xxiv. 208 Elsewhere in the same poem Mr. Squire has given us a fine new image of the brevity of man's life.
1971 J. Sage tr. J. E. Cirlot Dict. Symbols (ed. 2) 377 Bilateral symmetry as, for example, in the caduceus of Mercury, is the image of the world in so far as it is an equilibrium of hostile forces.
2007 Nanaimo (Brit. Columbia) Daily News (Nexis) 24 Oct. a1 In the ancient world one image of mortality was three women at a spinning loom.
b. A thing or person in which some quality is vividly exhibited, so as to make it or the person a natural representative of the quality; a type, typical example, embodiment. Cf. picture n. 7b.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > that which typically exhibits a quality
image?1534
abridgement1605
abstracta1616
proverb1659
incarnation1821
imprint1857
embodiment1868
?1534 tr. Dialoge Julius sig. e.viii In the surely I se the ymage of power, cowpled bothe with grete malyce and folyshnesse.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxiiijv [He] sawe that Andrewe..of his frend was sodainly transformed, into the image of his extreme enemy.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 i. iii. 179 Image of pride, wherefore should I peace?
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 256 Th'are sicke, th'are weary, They traueled hard to night, meare Iustice, I the Images of reuolt and flying off.
1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 127 Never in my life did I see such an Image of Devotion.
1798 N. Drake Lit. Hours xx. 340 The very marrow froze in my bones, and I stood fixed to the ground an image of despair and guilt.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 33 An awful image of calm power.
1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot x Mr. Sampson dropped his cigar, and sat transfixed, an image of half amused astonishment.
1947 M. McCarthy On Contrary (1961) i. 11 An image of happiness as packaged by the manufacturer.
1967 G. D. Schade tr. J. Rulfo Burning Plain, & Other Stories 96 What I always managed to see when there was a moon in Luvina was the image of despair.
2003 N. Krauss in W. Mosley & K. Kenison Best Amer. Short Stories 2003 128 To me they seem the image of health: lithe, agile, unharmed by pollution.
8. An imaginary point charge or (less commonly) charge distribution which would produce an identical electromagnetic field to the external field formed by a given conducting surface, if that surface were to be removed.
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1848 W. Thomson in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1847 ii. 6 The effect of a body electrified in any given manner upon an uninsulated sphere is shown to be completely represented by what may be called ‘the image of the electrified body in the sphere’, and a simple geometrical construction is given by which this image may be described.
1873 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism I. xi. 191 An imaginary electrified point, which has no physical existence..but which may be called an electrical image, because the action of the surface on external points is the same as that which would be produced by the imaginary electrified point if the spherical surface were removed.
1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 115 Every electrified system within the sphere has its image outside of the sphere... No closed surface except a sphere or infinite plane generally gives rise to an image.
1942 Amer. Math. Monthly 49 605 This method can be applied whenever it is possible to replace the surface distribution..by a suitably constructed electrical image..without altering the electric field exterior to the surface.
1970 J. Bockris & A. K. Reddy Mod. Electrochem. II. xii. 662 The image interaction between the test charge and the metal is given by the coulombic interaction between the test charge and the ficticious image charge.
2006 Jrnl. Electrostatics 64 709/2 It is worth noting that the images described..can apply to a conducting sphere on which the net charge is given.
9. Mathematics. The point or set into which a given point or given elements of a set are mapped by a particular function or transformation. With of the point or set, by or under the function.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > transformation > [noun] > set or values in
image1888
inverse image1932
preimage1942
spectrum1948
1888 Ann. Math. 4 65 If u be a function of z, and if z describe any path, u will describe another path which is called the image of the former with reference to the given function.
1905 J. Pierpont Lect. Theory Functions Real Variables I. iv. 146 When x ranges over X, u..runs over the domain U. It is convenient for brevity to call U the image of X.
1959 E. M. Patterson Topol. (ed. 2) ii. 19 If a ∈ A, the element of B corresponding to a is called the image of a by or under f, and is denoted by f(a).
1972 E. Hille Methods Classical & Functional Anal. ii. 56 Note that y may be the image of several points x and it is not excluded that all of may be mapped on a single point y.
2003 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 68 771 There is no set in the ultrafilter whose image is countably closed under the function that takes sets and gives branches through the set's corresponding tree.
10. Radio. An undesired signal whose frequency is such that, after being combined with the local frequency of a heterodyne receiver, it will generate the same intermediate frequency as the signal sought and so be heard as interference. Frequently attributive.A heterodyne receiver produces an output signal based only on the difference between the frequencies of the incoming signal and the receiver's local oscillator. The unwanted image frequency is as much below that of the local oscillator as the desired signal is above it; hence the frequency difference and the intermediate frequency generated are the same in both cases.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > interference
cross-talk1887
static1905
X1906
statics1912
click1914
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grinder1922
hash1923
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echo1928
image1928
radio echo1928
harmonic interference1929
second channel1932
1928 Brit. Patent 279,808 1/1 In known super-heterodyne receivers it is common practice to employ a number of tuned circuits to suppress this undesired signal which is herein referred to as the ‘image’ signal.
1932 F. E. Terman Radio Engin. xiii. 467 One of the chief functions of the tuned radio-frequency input amplifier is to prevent simultaneous reception of two stations in this way. By tuning this amplifier to the desired signal, the undesired or ‘image’ frequency is discriminated against.
1950 K. Henney Radio Engin. Handbk. (ed. 4) xvii. 802 Since the function of the converter is to produce the difference between applied frequencies, it cannot distinguish between the signal and the image and produces i-f output from each.
1962 B.B.C. Handbk. 130 The selectivity of the receiver is improved and this reduces ‘second channel’, alternatively called ‘image’, interference... Much of the interference experienced in the short-wave broadcast bands is due to such image effects.
2008 V. Giannini et al. Baseband Analog Circuits for Software Defined Radio ii. 17 The first IF..is selected high enough to efficiently suppress the image.
11. Computing. An exact copy of an entire disk or (less commonly) a file or set of files, usually made for the purposes of backing up data.
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1982 Computerworld 10 May 14/2 In order to back up an IMS data base, one runs a utility to take an image copy of the data base. This is nothing more than a ‘snapshot’ of the data base at a point in time.
1992 S. Schatt Understanding Local Area Networks (ed. 3) 172 Every time the file server performs a disk write function, it mirrors this image on its duplicate hard disk.
2001 Future Music June 74/2 Any use of plug-ins will labour the processor when it comes to burning the CD. For that reason, it's necessary to write a disc image first.
2007 W. C. Preston Backup & Recovery xi. 320 If you back up the entire hard drive..you may need to create a single image that's hundreds of gigabytes—or even a terabyte. Wow!
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a. General attributive.
image apprehension n.
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1962 I. M. Crombie Exam. Plato's Doctrines I. iii. 120 The criteria employed in calling things ducks do not constitute more than an image-apprehension of duckdom.
2002 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 23 Nov. e 1 Delight those decision-making women without turning off men with image apprehensions.
image association n.
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1918 J. H. Durham Freedom & Purpose 91 It reduces to a minimum the undisputed play of percept and image-association.
1950 Ess. & Stud. 3 39 The striking image-associations of this passage were noted by W. Clemen in Shakespeares Bilder.
2007 Vogue (Nexis) Nov. 100 Psychotherapist Jennifer Davis..guided me through hypnosis therapy and image association.
image brilliance n.
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1943 C. Duncan Man. Miniature Camera (ed. 2) iii. 34 The advantages of image brilliance and purity conferred by surface-coated glasses.
2005 Ear, Nose & Throat Jrnl. (Nexis) 84 448 The ATMOS Cam 21/31 sets a new standard for the optimum image brilliance needed for accurate diagnosis.
image cluster n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [noun] > image cluster
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1940 Rev. Eng. Stud. 16 277 All this..should lend more than a fortuitous interest to the numerous analogous image-clusters in Oberon and Cain.
1946 E. A. Armstrong Shakespeare's Imagination 184 As no two poets employ the same image clusters, therefore works of doubtful provenance can be assigned to a poet with certainty if it contains clusters..characteristic of writings known to be authentic.
2006 Leviathan (Nexis) 8 89 Both exemplify the analysis of a text through the capturing of ‘image clusters’ and ‘motifs’, a fundamental approach in the era of the New Criticism.
image-complex n.
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1892 J. Sully Outl. Psychol. (ed. 8) 222 The two processes of assimilative and contiguous suggestion may combine in effecting the revival of an image or image-complex.
1905 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 2 303 Psychical life exhibits two inseparably connected types: the image-complex (passive) and the will-complex (active attitude).
1966 Eng. Stud. 47 302 A Bible-inspired image-complex in Vaughan's poems.
2005 Bks. in Canada (Nexis) Apr. 34 The most commonly recognizable Surrealist technique..is the marvelous ‘image-complex’.
image field n.
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1895 Outlook 12 Jan. 59/1 The structure of the image-field of sight, together with both that of afferent and efferent nervous fibers..may not in many cases be approximately perfect.
1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 261/1 The only instruments of real interest at the moment seem to be those capable of automatic measurement of optical density at many different points of an image field.
2007 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Nov. (Weekend Life section) 87 Even though dozens of satellites may pass through an image field, fortunately not all of them will reflect sunlight to the telescope's location.
image formation n.
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1888 D. Kay Memory v. 207 When the subject is familiar or interesting, this process of image-formation is less arduous.
1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist ii. 81 Even in the most ‘intelligent’ of birds or mammals, the power of image-formation is very probably absent, and the power of concept-formation..certainly so.
2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. vi. 220 To determine Burgers vector of a dislocation from the disappearance of its image under particular illumination conditions requires an exact knowledge of the mechanism of image formation.
image-motif n.
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1937 U. Ellis-Fermor Some Recent Res. Shakes. Imagery 25 This [sc. Kolbe's Shakespeare's Way]..has some illuminating suggestions about the underlying image-motifs in the plays.
2001 Afr. Amer. Rev. 35 476 The culmination of an image motif that began with Loomis's vision of the ‘bones people’ at the end of Act I.
image pattern n.
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1756 H. D. Eberlein Pract. Bk. Chinaware 229 Patterns received from Lady Cavendish:..a rib'd and scollop'd cup and saucer, image pattern.
1835 Spiritual Mag. Apr. 119 Christ was the first Adam, who being the image pattern that was brought forth in the council of peace, after which image and likeness Adam was made.
1928 L. T. Troland Fund. Human Motivation v. 82 This retinal image pattern is followed by the formation of a corresponding or registering pattern of visual receptor processes in the retinal rods and cones.
1947 C. Day Lewis Poetic Image 84 Its image-pattern is so skilfully composed from certain theme-images.
2004 Eng. Jrnl. 94 92/3 In English classes, students operate in the analytical domain where they find image patterns in poetry.
image-sound n.
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1925 I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. 119 But the degree of correspondence between the image-sounds, and the actual sounds that the reader would produce, varies enormously.
1966 Revue Française de Sociologie 7 282 The conflict between the image and its supporting commentary ceases as soon as the set image-sound reflects the spectator's own life.
1995 Leonardo 28 107/3 When a work is more experimental, image-sound devices used may be less conventional.
image-substitute n.
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1925 I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. 120 Something takes the place of vivid images in these people and..provided the image-substitute is efficacious, their lack of mimetic imagery is of no consequence.
1996 MLN 111 946 Metropolis gives yet another example of the same process in which a living woman is replaced by her image-substitute.
image type n.
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1901 M. W. Calkins Introd. Psychol. xv. 201 Even the minor image-types may be well developed, as the experiences of many defectives show.
1925 I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. 123 If this were not the case the absence of glaring differences between people of different image-types would be astonishing.
2004 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 32 853 The utility of a particular image type depends on the specific purposes for which it is to be used.
image war n.
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a1770 J. Jortin Remarks Eccl. Hist. (1773) IV. 452 The History of the Image-War is written by Maimbourg.
1853 Apocalypse Unveiled I. vi. 89 We must find at least two independent ecclesiastical powers, in open, actual hostility towards each other. These we shall find as the result of the image war, as it has been called.
1953 D. Harrison Tudor Eng. I. iv. 132 No sooner was the ‘image war’ concluded than the ‘altar war’ began.
1999 J. Labanti in D. T. Gies Cambr. Compan. Mod. Spanish Culture iii. x. 141 The victors of the military conflict eventually lost the image war.
image work n.
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1539 Bible (Great) 2 Chron. iii. 4 And in ye house most holy, he made two Cherubins of ymage worke, lyke chyldren, and ouerlayde them with gold.
1693 R. Ames Rake Pref. sig. A2 Being too Zealous a Homager of the above-named Image-work, and one who has not only bent his Knee, but laid his Bones by it.
a1721 J. Skepp Divine Energy (1722) 149 The Prophet was by the Spirit led thro' the Hole in the Wall into Israel's Idolatrous Chamber of Image Work.
1856 Biblical Repertory July 472 It is an architectural object only in that accommodated sense in which we speak of Biscay image work as statuary.
1975 D. W. Plath Adult Episodes in Japan 56 Popular image-work has begun to shape the collective figure of the Shōwa hitoketa..as the stereotype of what it is to be middle aged today.
1997 J. Davison & E. Scarratt in J. Davison & J. Dowson Learning to teach Eng. in Secondary Sch. 171 Simple image work using ‘found’ images from magazines or photographs is often a starting point for media work.
2002 N.Z. Business (Nexis) Feb. 30 It may also be valuable to retain the services of the brand identity expert..to ensure that the values remain central to the resulting image work.
image world n.
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1732 T.G. Precedency & Pre-eminency Christ ix. 33 Hence this vast Image-World, in all its Orbs..with all the Beauties, Glories, Harmonies of it.
1842 E. Stuart-Wortley Maiden of Moscow v. xl. 192 When heaves with strange tempestuous strife, The Image-World of pictured life!
1953 R. Manheim tr. E. Cassirer Philos. Symbolic Forms I. 78 All live in particular image-worlds, which do not reflect the empirically given, but which rather produce it in accordance with an independent principle.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Nov. 20/1 What O'Brien is describing is an image world spun out of control.
b. Computing. General attributive, designating procedures relating to the processing or analysis of images by machine (now usually, by computer), as image analysis, image enhancement, etc.
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1934 Brit. Patent 417,958 1/2 The image analysis is carried so far that the discoloured edges of the adjacent holes punctured by the sparks adjoin one another.
1959 U.S. Patent 2,903,507 1 Another object of the present invention is to provide an electro-optical system for image enhancement.
1994 Denver Post 17 Jan. e3/1 An image-compression computer..may make it easier for physicians to seek expert advice when diagnosing a patient's cancer risks.
1996 Web Techniques Aug. 66/2 HoTMetaL Pro includes..MetalWorks, a standalone image-manipulation tool that lets you import graphics and manipulate them in various ways.
1999 New Scientist 24 July 62/1 (advt.) Duties will involve..providing quantitative and qualitative analysis, including computer-assisted image analysis.
1999 D. Mitchell Ghostwritten 414 By image enhancement I can identify EyeSat 80B^K, lit by a morning that hasn't arrived yet.
c. Objective.† image-doter n. Obsolete rare.† image-graver n. Obsolete
image advertising n.
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1969 N.Y. Times 27 Mar. 76/2 Image advertising, that increasingly popular form of communication through which giant corporations seek to spread warmth in the marketplace.
1995 S. Brierley Advertising Handbk. iv. 43 Most image advertising is designed not to challenge bad images but to change people's perceptions of the company.
image-bearer n.
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1611 J. Donne Ignatius his Conclaue 31 It cannot be said (vnspeakable Emperour) how much this obscure Florentine hath transgressed against thee, and against the Pope thy image-bearer.
1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. x. 338 Heaven be prais'd, both Image and Image-bearer happen'd to be out of the spleen that day.
1856 F. Saunders Salad for Social 154 The chief priests..left the exhibition of remedies to the pastophori, or image-bearers.
1884 A. Murray Like Christ xxxi. 238 Image-bearers of God..live a Godlike, live a Christlike life.
1948 Western Folklore 7 360 Interspersed between these visiting sections were the local groups of image-bearers.
2007 Denver Post (Nexis) 18 Mar. e2 Christians..would argue that we have intrinsic worth because we are image-bearers of the living God.
image-bearing adj.
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1833 R. Mant Happiness of Blessed lxix. 173 Relick, or magick word, or holy oil, Or image-bearing cross, or wafer host.
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 137 In removing the skin with the accompanying image-bearing film from the waxed plate, be sure that the whole is uniformly dry.
1949 W. H. Offenhauser 16-mm Sound Motion Pictures xii. 382 A traveling matte..is merely a film interposed at the gate between the light source and the image-bearing film that alters the light intensity in the manner of a neutral density filter.
2001 World Archaeol. 33 277 A lively relationship between the object and the Etruscan viewer in which the choice of scene was closely linked to what the image-bearing object was expected to do.
image-build v. intransitive.
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1966 ‘C. E. Maine’ B.E.A.S.T. v. 61 ‘Are you warning me off or telling me to join the queue?’ ‘Neither, I'm just image building.’
2004 H. Rolston in P. Clayton & J. Schloss Evol. & Ethics ii. xii. 246 The Good Samaritan..was parading his beneficence for future gains. He was image-building.
image-builder n.
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1964 Economist 3 Oct. 49/1 Mr Goldwater's professional image-builders.
2005 M. Emmering in W. Baets Knowl. Managem. & Mangem. Learning xvi. 329 This project was primarily meant to be an image builder rather than a money-maker.
image-building n.
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1925 L. Abercrombie Idea of Great Poetry i. 54 If there is some significance in fancy's image-building, wherein does it differ from imagination, except in degree of significance?
1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising xx. 182 The relation between metaphor and image-building can be seen in extracts from a campaign for Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
2005 N. Flanagan & J. Finger Managem. Bible (S. Afr. ed.) 495/1 Image building goes beyond advertising and is built on planned, systematic two-way communication.
image-conscious adj.
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1952 S. G. Smith Robert Fergusson 69 Outside of Scotland modern poets are to an unprecedented degree image-conscious.
1967 Economist 28 Jan. 347/2 In these soft, image-conscious days (in Britain anyway) not many of the big ones would care to abuse this position.
2001 L. Keating Atlanta ix. 202 Private enterprise is highly image-conscious, and two fundamental business strategies are marketing and public relations.
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1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe 1139 Image-doatars God's decreit Striue to make Irrite.
image-doting adj.
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1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxviii. 241 An inconstant, irrational, and Image-doting rabble.
2002 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 3 Apr. b 6 I think that for Generation X not only has there been a dearth of music and arts and culture shows out there, too often there's nothing between highbrow and bottom-of-the-barrel image-doting interview programming.
image-forming adj.
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1841 N. Amer. Rev. July 28 But when abstract propositions are before the mind, the conceptive or image-forming faculty is at rest.
1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. xvii. 352 The compound eye is thus a true image-forming eye and its image is undoubtedly of value to the animal.
2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. vi. 223 A key component was an efficient plastic scintillation counter for the image-forming electrons.
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1559 in Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. (1966) 29 117 Nicholas Modeane Italion, Image graver to the Quenes majestie.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 805 Cephisodotus the image grauer.
image-seeing n. and adj.
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1849 Q. Homœopathic Jrnl. 1 289 On attempting to sleep, image-seeing begins again.
1852 Christian Examiner & Relig. Misc. Nov. 336 The image-seeing faculty is the believing faculty.
a1894 R. B. W. Noel Coll. Poems (1902) 398 Let A stand for the right hemisphere, or dextro-cerebral, ideational nervous centres of the brain, B for the word-hearing, C for the image-seeing, D for the word-writing centres.
1926 F. Carter Dragon of Alchemists 46 The faculty of image-seeing and making.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & So On (1936) 73 It is, for him, complete for he is void of image-seeing imagination.
2003 B. Blumenfeld Polit. Paul viii. 372 The cultural cliché that opposes the Hebrew word-hearing religion to the Greek image-seeing one is a fallacy.
d. Instrumental and adverbial.
image-crowded adj.
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1836 Metrop. Mag. 17 72 A feeling like that of the condemned during his heavy and yet image-crowded sleep that will herald him to execution.
1849 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 492 The cathedral, where they worship, reflected the sunlight from its embroidered spire and its image-crowded turrets years before the foot of Columbus pressed the Indian strand.
1911 W. B. Yeats Plays for Irish Theatre p. ix We feel our minds expand convulsively or spread out slowly like some moon-brightened image-crowded sea.
2003 P. Frosh Image Factory iv. 110 Within the image-crowded field of consumer culture, most photographs are not gazed at but glanced at or overlooked.
image-laden adj.
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1899 H. C. Warren tr. J. G. de Tarde Social Laws iii. 186 Minute accretions of image-laden expressions, picturesque phrases, and new words.
1943 D. Gascoyne Poems 1937–42 33 Blows back With long-held burning breath through eyeholes bored By image-laden rays.
1999 New Yorker 12 Apr. 105/1 Expressive, gestural, and image-laden, St. John's lines fairly hum with the pleasure of their own making.
image-ridden adj.
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1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. 33 Our impulses are unseasonal and image-ridden.
2007 Kingston (Ont.) Whig-Standard (Nexis) 22 Dec. e 5 From interesting guitar and bass arrangements to their expressive and image-ridden lyrics, they are creating something altogether new within the genre.
C2. † image-douly n. [ < image n. + duly n.; compare idolodoulia n. at idolo- comb. form (recorded in the same source)] Obsolete rare veneration of images.† image mug n. Obsolete a mug or pitcher in the form of a human body or bust; esp. = toby n.1 2.
image acquisition n. = image capture n.
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1966 U.S. Patent 3,275,743 3 If the image acquisition and reproduction system were used in conjunction with aircraft flight simulation and training, this channel need not be used.
2001 J. V. Pavlik Journalism & New Media iii. 49 This chapter..examines tools for image acquisition and processing in which journalists interact directly with the content of those images.
image capture n. the creation of a record or representation of an image, now usually in digital form, by means of a device such as a scanner or camera.
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1968 B. E. Holm How to manage Your Information xii. 203 Most image capture is on silver roll film using three basic camera types.
1992 MacUser Nov. 51/1 The image-capture part of Image Assistant provides the one-step scanning you'd expect.
2002 Petersen's Photogr. Oct. 56 If the firmware in the camera..hasn't been optimized for image capture, the images won't be optimized.
image consultancy n. chiefly British the business or practice of advising on ways of improving the image of a person, company, etc.; an agency which specializes in this; cf. image consultant n.
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1982 R. N. Bolles What Color Is Your Parachute? (rev. ed.) vii. 177 You may find John T. Molloy's famous Dress for Success helpful... His books are representative of a..fast-growing field called Personal Image Consultancy.]
1987 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 10 Nov. 18/2 Eye-catchingly dressed in a terracotta outfit with matching accessories, [she] looked good. But there is also no doubt that..[she], partner in a Melbourne image consultancy firm, didn't look that good by accident.
1997 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 5 Dec. He will unveil a new logo for the presidency—drawn up by the image consultancy that redesigned the British Airways tail-fins.
2006 E. Hartney How to manage Stress in FE x. 123 While image consultancy may cost a fortune, fortunately there are many excellent books on this subject.
image consultant n. a person or company employed to advise on how to convey a favourable or desired public impression, esp. on how to ensure positive media portrayal and good public relations, on personal appearance and style, or on how to improve brand recognition through a change of name, logo, product packaging, etc.
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1962 N.Y. Times 11 Feb. ii. 17 Program balance normally is determined by the network sales department. During the biennial hearings of the F.C.C., however, the duty is assigned temporarily to..image consultants.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Aug. (Final ed.) c1 Lee's image consultants are relatively unconcerned about his negative portrayals in newspapers.
1988 Financial Times (Nexis) 16 Sept. i. 19 The company calling itself Arthur Daly boilers, after the TV conman character, probably should have hired a different image consultant.
1997 B. Rowlands Which? Guide Complementary Med. 125 Image consultants use hair, eye and skin colour as the key to determining which colours suit you.
image consulting n. originally North American the business or practice of advising on ways to improve the image of a person, company, organization, etc.
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1978 Chicago Tribune 27 Oct. i. 4/2 Image consulting is complicated and don't think specialists in the field have it easy.
1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 Dec. c5 Barbara Blaes..runs her own image consulting service.
1997 San Diego Union-Tribune (Electronic ed.) 19 Jan. f14 A $6 million spa..offers a range of revitalizing treatments (massages, body scrubs, body wraps, herbal baths, nutritional therapy and image consulting).
2002 Us Weekly 23 Dec. 23 Will these drug allegations hurt her chances for a comeback? ‘Probably not’, says Tom Alderman, the founder of MediaPrep, an LA image consulting firm.
image converter n. an image tube or other device for converting an image formed by invisible radiation (esp. infrared) into a visible one.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments to refract, etc., light > [noun] > image tube
image intensifier1930
image tube1936
image converter1937
intensifier1939
1937 U.S. Patent 2,091,862 1/1 The present invention pertains to a photo-electric image converter of the type wherein an invisible light ray is transmitted to a cathode ray commutator transmitter block so as to form a visible image.
1952 Electronic Engin. 24 307/1 The case of an image convertor of the ME1200 type will enable infra-red photographs to be taken using normal high-speed emulsions.
2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 14044/2 All manipulations were carried out in complete darkness with the aid of an infrared image converter.
image dissector n. Television (now historical) a kind of television camera tube in which an image causes a photoemissive surface to emit a corresponding flow of electrons, the current of which constitutes the video signal.
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1934 P. T. Farnsworth in Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 218 411 Means for producing these saw-tooth currents and means for synchronizing them between the ‘Image Dissector’, or transmitting tube, and the..receiving tube, are discussed.
1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 261/2 A non-storage camera tube of the type known as an ‘image dissector’ also possesses some very favourable properties, particularly in so far as resolution is concerned.
2003 A. Abramson Hist. Television, 1942–2000 vii. 109/2 It was stated that the image dissector despite its inherent low sensitivity surpassed all other camera tubes in resolution.
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1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 623 Confesse that your Image-Douly is no better then Idolatrie.
image editing n. the editing of images, esp. by means of a computer; frequently attributive.
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1980 Yale French Stud. No. 60. 124 We might also expect to find the filmmakers cutting their soundtracks with the rapidity and disjunctions they had developed in their image editing during the silent period.
1993 MacUser Oct. 50/2 You'll be pleased with the results. They're usually so good that you won't be tempted to rescan or tweak the image with an image-editing program.
2004 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 12 June 14 Choosing the right image-editing package depends on the way you work and where you want your work to be displayed. The package that comes with your digital still camera may be all you need.
image editor n. a piece of software or a device used for editing images.
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1979 Science 27 Apr. 398 g (advt.) Image Editor Pen (optional) used on problem specimens.
1997 K. Reichs Déjà Dead xxxix. 465 Selecting the resize function in the image editor I clicked on one edge of the B on the Rue Berger cup, dragged the cursor to the far border, and clicked again.
2005 Digital Photographer No. 31. 118/2 To get a 49Mb file, you'll have to interpolate the file using Photoshop or some other image-editor.
image iconoscope n. Television (now historical) a kind of television camera tube in which an image causes a photoemissive surface to emit a corresponding flow of electrons which is then focused on to a photoemissive mosaic, the video signal being obtained from the variation in current as the mosaic is scanned with an electron beam; cf. image dissector n. and iconoscope n. 2.
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1939 Proc. IRE 27 547/1 These image iconoscopes are practical working tools, advanced well beyond the laboratory stage.
1988 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 34 523 In 1937 he [sc. Zworykin] filed a further patent describing RCA's new camera tube, the ‘image iconoscope’.
2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. & Technol. 526/2 1939..Vladimir Zworykin, Harley Iams, and George Morton develop the image iconoscope. The television camera tube has a semitransparent photo-cathode on which the image to be televised is projected.
image intensifier n. an image tube or other device in which an image is formed by light or other radiation on a photoemissive or photoconductive surface and the resulting flow of electrons used to produce a corresponding visible image of increased brightness.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments to refract, etc., light > [noun] > image tube
image intensifier1930
image tube1936
image converter1937
intensifier1939
1930 Brit. Patent 315,362 3/1 Fig. 31 is an image intensifier in which the phosphorescence screen lies between the image carrier and a transparent counter-electrode.
1961 Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times 9 June 2/4 The image intensifier provided the commander with the ‘eyes’ with which he watched and directed the operation.
2005 I. McEwan Saturday i. 7 He slipped a gloved forefinger into the back of her mouth to feel the route, then, with barely a glance at the image intensifier, slid a long needle through the outside of her cheek, all the way up to the trigeminal ganglion.
image man n. (a) Theology and Metaphysics a human being considered as an image of God or (rarely) of an ideal archetype; (b) a man who makes or sells images; (c) a man who promotes a client's public image; (d) a man sensitive to his public image or with a deliberately created public image.
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1694 M. Tindal Let. conc. Trinity & Athanasian Creed ix. 29 He saith an Image-man is distinct from the Original Man, and yet the same with him.
1807 C. I. M. Dibdin Mirth & Metre 157 (title) The Image Man.
1829 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (2002) V. 6155 He made me in his own image: Well then & with highest reason may the Image-man speak to the divine Anti-type to the God-man, as a Man.
1895 T. Hardy Jude ii. iii. 112 She offered considerably less, and to her surprise the image-man drew them from their wire stay and handed them over the stile.
1917 F. B. Dowd Way 96 The Father is magnetic spirit; and the image man is also magnetic in a less degree with the further capacity of acquiring more from the Father.
1936 J. F. Copeland Every Day but Sunday xi. 135 The ‘Image’ man, who..wore on his shoulders a sort of framed board with a hole through which his head protruded.
1968 J. B. Priestley (title) The image men.
1975 F. Rahman tr. Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shirāzī in Philos. Mullā Ṣadrā iv. 236 The First Man has strong and manifest perceptual faculties surpassing those of the image-man here.
a1983 M. Acorn in R. Lemm Milton Acorn in Love & Anger (1999) 24 The image-man, His very soul wired And tugged into shape By advertisers.
2002 M. S. Friedman Martin Buber (ed. 4) iii. xiv. 99 The image man..is primarily concerned with what the other thinks of him.
2003 Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald (Nexis) 22 Oct. 1 b Omaha image man Sonny Mares says the city's new slogan—‘O!’—isn't really a slogan.
image merchant n. (a) a person who sells images; (b) a person who promotes a client's public image.
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1822 C. H. A. Malan (title) The little stucco image merchants.]
1829 Eclectic Rev. July 55 Like the Tyrolese and Savoyards, they visit richer countries as pedlars and image-merchants.
1894 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Apr. 477/2 The savor and flavor and comprehension of art..that comes of contact with the image merchant who is also an image maker.
1959 I. Ross Image Merchants (1960) i. 17 The whole breed may be called the Image Merchants—the men who endlessly ‘create’, ‘delineate’, ‘adumbrate’ and ‘project’ the most flattering ‘images’ of their clients.
2003 L. Sullivan Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This (ed. 2) xi. 265 You're an image merchant. You're weaving words and pictures together and imbuing inanimate objects with meaning and value.
imagemonger n. †(a) a worshipper or venerator of images (obsolete); (b) a person who sells or makes images; (c) an advocate or user of poetic images; (d) a person who promotes a client's or his or her own public image.
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c1560 T. Becon Relikes of Rome sig. C.iii Athanasius proueth euidentlye against all Imagemongers, that men may learne to knowe God better.
1662 G. Sikes Life & Death Sir Henry Vane 127 Demetrius & his subordinate Shrine-makers, and Image-mongers.
1703 Rare Show lately Seen 9 That admirable Conventicle of Image-mongers.
1845 J. White Earl of Gowrie iii. i. 72 It's a Papist, A regular Roman Imagemonger.
1870 G. P. Quackenbos Spiers & Surenne's French & Eng. Pronouncing Dict. 273/1 Image-monger, n. (m. p.) marchand d'images (en sculpture, etc.).
1961 Mod. Lang. Rev. 56 416 Those image-mongers whose acknowledged legislation now holds poetical ideas in vassalage.
2002 J. Harrington Sonic Cool xi. 272 The two imagemongers, [Andy] Warhol and [David] Bowie, found common ground re: the latter's alligator shoes.
imagemongery n. the practice of an imagemonger; advocacy or use of images or imagery.
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a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 295 Image mongery whose Spirits boild In Romes fat Pottage Pot all Churches oyld.
1909 E. B. Titchener Lect. Exper. Psychol. Thought-processes 305 Many years ago, I myself wrote a bit of imagemongery on the subject of relation; worse yet, I found a logician to agree with me.
1953 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Philos. Investig. §390 in J. Genova Wittgenstein (1995) i. ii. 56 Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so—why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?
1964 Mod. Lang. Rev. 59 119 We learn that with a little ingenuity even the fashionable image-mongery can produce something on the credit side for Shelley.
1999 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 7 Feb. j6 Hollow image mongery is a ripe subject for critique.
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1788 Times 27 Feb. 4 Three China Mugs, one Image Mug.
1860 Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. 16 356 Boggle (north-country name for a goblin) is a title bestowed on image mugs representing mis-shapen human beings, still manufactured in the Staffordshire potteries, and frequently called toby pitchers.
1864 Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. 20 327 An example of the boggle, or image-mug, of superior fabric, assigned to the commencement of the fourteenth century.
1899 N.E.D. at Image n. Image-mug.
image orthicon n. Television (now historical) a kind of television camera tube in which a flow of electrons, produced as in an image tube, strikes a thin glass sheet and forms a pattern of positive charges corresponding to the original image, the video signal being derived by an electron beam which scans the other side of the sheet.
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1945 Daily Mail (Hagerstown, Maryland) 25 Oct. 12/4 A new television camera tube that sees even in the dark..was set up for its first public demonstration today... The device is known as an ‘image orthicon’.
1961 Science 20 Oct. 1169/1 The image orthicon is a different approach to the development of a more sensitive image tube.
2007 C. Collie Business of TV Production i. 10 This image orthicon camera could be used in normal room light and RCA reigned supreme in post-war television.
image processing n. the electronic analysis or manipulation of an image, esp. in order to improve its quality.
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1954 Winona (Minnesota) Republican-Herald 17 May 7/1 Scientists at the National Bureau of Standards..have come up with..a device for making good pictures out of bad ones... The bureau described the process..as ‘electro-optical image processing’.
1989 C. Stoll Cuckoo's Egg xlviii. 260 We've got a dedicated artificial intelligence group, active robotics researchers, and our image-processing lab really cooks.
2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Feb. b7/4 Some..companies are proposing ‘heterogeneous’ chips, which combine general-purpose microprocessors with specialized circuitry for tasks like image processing.
image processor n. a device or system for performing image processing.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > [noun] > by means of a computer > device or system for performing image processing
image processor1954
1954 Bee (Danville, Va.) 2 June a3/1 (caption) Dr. Leslie S. Kovasznay, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, takes a reading on his electro-optical image processor.
1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) iv. 142 By using video systems linked to image processors, contrast can be greatly enhanced so that the eye's limitations in detecting small differences are overcome.
2006 E. McGechie Getting Started with Aperture v. 83 Aperture is an advanced nondestructive image processor that supports RAW formats from all leading Canon and Nikon digital single-lens reflex cameras.
imagesetter n. Printing an output device which reproduces graphics and text at high resolution on film or photosensitive paper.
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1984 Financial Times 5 Apr. 39/5 Demand for digital images has been stimulated primarily by the need for type to be shown on screens, printers and imagesetters for the graphic arts,..and artificial intelligence image processing equipment.
1999 Printing World 7 June 14/5 Buying two imagesetters and two sets of plate-making equipment was going to cost more than putting in two ctp lines.
image stabilizer n. a facility on a device such as a camera or telescope which reduces the effect of movement on the images produced by the device.
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1943 Photogr. Jrnl. Apr. 160/3 He..wrote one or two papers dealing with the errors of the rotating parallel plate image stabiliser with continuously moving film.
1951 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 27 Mar. 5/5 (advt.) 17in. table model... Automatic image stabilizer.
1972 Science 21 Jan. 323/1 The techniques were essentially those used..at the 1967 opposition, except no image stabilizer was available.
2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 3 Jan. d4/5 Both [camera-phones] offer features like..image stabilizers that reduce blurriness.
image toy n. a small decorative figure, esp. an earthenware one made in the 18th cent. by John Astbury (see Astbury n.) or Thomas Whieldon.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > modelling > [noun] > model > in terra-cotta or clay
terra-cotta1810
snowman1908
image toy1956
1824 J. West Substance of Jrnl. during Resid. at Red River Colony i. 7 The women presented image toys, made from the bones and teeth of animals, models of canoes, and various articles of dress, made of seal skins, and the membranes of the abdomen of the whale.
1894 S. Smiles J. Wedgwood iv. 34 Bason bowls, plates, and image toys.
1956 Burlington Mag. Oct. 385/3 The pottery figures (‘earthenware image toys’) made in Staffordshire and imitated elsewhere in England and Wales, constitute one of the few authentic examples of English folk art.
1971 Country Life 2 Dec. 1505/1 Pioneer maker of image toys in Staffordshire was John Astbury (1688–1742), his colours restricted to the browns and whites of his burnt clay.
2000 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press (Nexis) 14 May d 8 First known as ‘image toys’.., Victorian Staffordshire figurines reigned as popular items throughout the 19th century.
image tube n. Electronics and Television an electron tube in which a (visible or invisible) image is formed on a photoemissive surface, causing it to emit a corresponding flow of electrons which may then be used to reproduce the image in a different form; cf. image converter n. and image intensifier n.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments to refract, etc., light > [noun] > image tube
image intensifier1930
image tube1936
image converter1937
intensifier1939
1936 N.Y. Times 3 Jan. 1/3 The new electron image tube converts the scene it receives in ‘black light’ directly into visible pictures on its fluorescent screen.
1971 Nature 3 Sept. 37/1 The difficulties associated with studying very faint [celestial] objects are very great, because of the increasing difficulty in detecting photons against the natural and man-made noise, even with the use of image-tube techniques.
2003 A. Abramson Hist. Television, 1942–2000 ix. 140/2 A silicon target had..the broadest spectral response ever obtained in an image tube.
Derivatives
ˈimagelike adj.
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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 266 They do proue their righteousnes with obedience and good workes, not with a bare & image-like visor of fayth.
1622 R. Aylett Thrifts Equipage iii. 31 I onely speake of Diligence, And image-like to others point out-right.
1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North (1854) 172/2 Few words was the Child ever heard to speak, except some words of prayer; but her image-like stillness breathed a blessing wherever it smiled.
1904 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 69 It is a state of consciousness having the organic quality and the characteristically image-like timbre.
1941 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 1 413 There may be some imagelike representation of a gushing spring or a brook or a dripping glass.
2000 A. Brook in D. Ross et al. Dennett's Philos. xi. 233 Often when we think our ‘mind’ is showing us something, it is in fact telling us about it—the thing is not appearing in an image or anything imagelike.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
imagev.
/ˈɪmɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈɪmɪdʒ/ 1. To form a mental image of.† b. transitive. With something to be executed as object: to devise, plan. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To imagine, picture in the mind, represent to oneself.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
thinkOE
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portraya1375
imagec1390
dreama1393
supposea1393
imaginea1398
conceive?a1425
fantasyc1430
purposea1513
to frame to oneselfa1529
'magine1530
imaginate1541
fancy1551
surmit?1577
surmise1586
conceit?1589
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figurea1616
forma1616
to call up1622
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edify1645
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vision1796
to conjure up1819
conjure1820
envisage1836
to dream up1837
visualize1863
envision1921
pre-visualize1969
c1390 Talkyng of Love of God (Vernon) (1950) 62 Ȝif I my wrecche loue beode for to sullen..I coude not ymagen so heiȝ pris, þat þou nast don heer to fore monifold more.
1618 A. Munday tr. N. de Herberay Amadis de Gaule: 3rd Bk. xvii. 176 Grumedan remounted on horsebacke, and imaging that his two new friends would follow him, withdrew thence to his owne lodging.
1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 11 Image to thy Mind, How our Fore-fathers..to Stygian Shades Went quick.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 254 You have never seen one of these machines—Image to yourself a small, snug, wooden chamber, fixed upon a wheel-carriage.
1781 J. Moore View Society & Manners Italy II. xli. 67 We image to ourselves the Tarpeian Rock as a tremendous precipice.
1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 363 Image to yourselves the scenery of rivers and lakes.
1860 J. McCosh Intuitions i. i. 11 The mind of man has the power of imaging or representing in old forms by the memory, and in new forms by the imagination, whatever it has at any time known or experienced.
1924 T. H. Y. Trotter Music & Mind v. 56 Whether or not it is necessary for the listener to image in his mind the scene to be represented is a moot point.
1972 Science 16 June 1208/1 Some recall past events by imaging the scene.
2002 J. E. Upledger SomatoEmotional Release iv. 98 I image to myself what they describe.
2003 D. Cocks Deep Futures i. 4 Our capacity to image the future has probably been weakened by the increasing rate of change being experienced in many dimensions of the global system.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)]
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compass1297
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imaginec1380
cast1382
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pre-plan1847
encompass1882
target1948
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 1 He ymagyth & castyth be-forn in his herte how he wyll makyn it.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 156 Þei..told him who Mortimer had ymaged his deth.
2. transitive. To represent or expound in speech or writing; to describe, esp. vividly or graphically.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > describe [verb (transitive)] > in detail or graphically
descrive?c1225
depaint1382
painta1387
portraya1387
huea1525
portrait1581
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daguerreotype1839
word-paint1839
photograph1849
Kodak1892
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. vii. sig. M m 1v (heading) Braue courage imaged in Amphialus.
a1628 F. Greville Treat. Humane Learning cv, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 43 Hence striue the Schooles, by first, and second kinds Of substances, by essence, and existence; That Trine, and yet Vnitednesse diuine To comprehend, and image to the sense.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 66 Tragedy we know is wont to image to us the minds and fortunes of noble persons, and to portray these exactly.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 315. ¶5 Satan's Approach to the Confines of the Creation, is finely imaged in the beginning of the Speech.
1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 513 Who can describe her charms, who can image forth her beauty?
a1853 F. W. Robertson Lect. (1858) ii. 64 If only his Redeemer had been differently imaged to him.
1937 Eng. Jrnl. 26 345 The notion that a metaphor depends for its effectiveness upon..the fulness with which the vehicle is imaged is wrong.
2003 Marketing News (Nexis) 21 July 1 The way that the language and the poetry was imaged was in a rich, textured, layered and sensual way.
3. † b. transitive. To be an image or counterpart of; to resemble. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To form an image or counterpart of; to copy, imitate. rare.
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?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads Ep. Ded. 83 They his clear virtues emulate, In truth and justice imaging his state.
1908 M. J. Cawein Poems I. 178 Oh, perilous eyes! As agates polished; where the thoughts that rise, Within thy heart are imaged.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > be like, resemble, or take after
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1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 445 None imag'd e'er like thee my master lost [Gk. ἀλλ᾽ οὔ πώ τινά ϕημι ἐοικότα ὧδε ἰδέσθαι ὡς σὺ δέμας ϕωνήν τε πόδας τ᾽ Ὀδυσῆϊ ἔοικας].
4. transitive. To make an image of; to represent by a sculpted, painted, or other artistic image; to figure, portray, delineate. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (transitive)]
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1624 T. Adams Temple 21 God is too infinite for the comprehension of our soules, why should we then labour to bring him into the narrow compasse of bords & stones? Certenly, that should not be Imaged, which cannot be Imagined.
1682 J. Norris tr. Hierocles Golden Verses 124 When Nature had moulded this visible World to the divine proportion, she made it every where variously Conformable to its self by Analogy, and Imaged the divine beauty upon all the Mundane forms in a different manner.
1733 P. Browne Things Divine & Supernatural v. 184 Our natural Ideas and Conceptions can at the utmost be nothing more than so many Resemblances, by which the Originals are Imaged only and represented.
1745 T. Warton Five Pastoral Eclogues 25 Shrines of imag'd saints.
1796 E. Jerningham Poems (new ed.) II. 26 That He, by Sculptor imag'd, here may stand.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iv. 119 Those imaged to the pride of kings and priests.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. x. 408 Traces of the fair beauty of the monastic spirit we may yet see imaged in the sculptured figures..upon the floors of our cathedrals.
1907 G. Massey Anc. Egypt II. xi. 715 The first Great Mother Apt was imaged in the likeness of the water-cow.
2002 Art Jrnl. (Nexis) 61 65 The sexuality imaged in these paintings and drawings, all done in the early 1960s, is hardly the soft-core liberation offered by the then recently founded Playboy.
5. transitive. To represent by an emblem or metaphor; to symbolize, typify.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > be symbol of [verb (transitive)]
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1778 W. Cookworthy & T. Hartley tr. E. Swedenborg Treat. Heaven & Hell 216 The innocence of children was imaged to me by the representation of a child in wood with scarce any thing of life in it.
1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 35 O stream!.. Thou imagest my life.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 37 He..shews forth His resistless power, imaged by His creatures in whom the quality of power is most seen, ‘I will be as a lion’.
1871 S. Smiles Character i. 26 The heathen deities at least imaged human virtues.
1901 K. Tynan Poems 40 A child, a woman, and a man, Imaging that sweet trinity Wherewith Thy kingdom first began.
1949 G. Highet Classical Trad. xxii. 516 When Eliot thinks of the splendour and brutality of military power, he images it in the eagles and trumpets of Rome.
2003 R. A. Foakes in W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream (new ed.) 3 This opposition is notably imaged in the ass-head placed on Bottom, the ass symbolising sensuality and stupidity.
6. transitive. To reflect, mirror. Now rare.
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the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)] > an image
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mirror1820
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 159 Hail, noblest structures imaged in the wave.
1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal xii. 232 Thy love in ours is imaged true As skies in water clear.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iv. 35 The houses on the margin of the lake were also imaged to a certain height.
1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 622/2 They are breaking even the mirrors that have imaged me.
1991 A. Chaudhuri Strange & Sublime Addr. (1992) v. 34 The mirror imaged the room and gave it a sense of extra space.
7. transitive. To obtain or generate a visual representation of (something) by means of photography, radar, ultrasound, X-rays, or other technique, typically for a purpose such as research, medical diagnosis, or reconnaissance. Chiefly in passive.
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1925 U.S. Patent 1,525,550 1/2 It is not thought necessary to lengthen this description by explaining..how the changing intensity of this spot..is imaged on a photographic plate in this process of transmitting pictures-by-radio.
1957 A. C. Clarke Deep Range xv. 129 The familiar rocky terrain was imaged on TV and sonar screen.
1980 Sci. Amer. Jan. 77/1 The Jupiter-facing hemisphere of Callisto was imaged at high resolution..as Voyager 1 flew past the satellite.
1989 Nature 18 May 178/1 This site of sea-floor creation has been imaged using sophisticated acoustic tomographic techniques on the East Pacific Rise near 13°N.
2008 Times (Nexis) 1 Apr. 27 For tissues or tumours to be imaged, they must first be ‘stained’ with gold nanoparticles or carbon nanotubes injected into the body.
8. transitive. Computing. To make an exact copy of (a disk), usually for the purposes of backing up data.
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1992 386 UNIX & Clone Hardware Buyer's FAQ in comp.unix.sysv386 (Usenet newsgroup) 1 June Ideally, your tape backup should be able to image your entire disk.
2003 J. Anastasi New Forensics ii. 17 There were a couple hundred floppy disks lying around... Kris knew there was no way they would be able to image them all.
2005 J. R. Vacca Computer Forensics (ed. 2) vii. 239 The hard disk drive should be imaged using a specialized bit stream backup product.
2008 K. Rankin Knoppix Hacks (ed. 2) vi. 218 If you try to image a failing hard drive, you end up with an incomplete image.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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