imagenoun
uk/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/us/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/image noun (MENTAL PICTURE)
C2 [ C ] a picture in your mind or an idea of how someone or something is:
I have an image in my mind of how I want the garden to be.
He doesn't fit (= he is different to) my image of how an actor should look.
B2 [ C or U ] the way that something or someone is thought of by other people:
The aim is to improve the public image of the police.
The company has made strenuous attempts to improve its image in recent years.
He's terribly image-conscious (= tries to dress and behave in a way that other people will admire).
[ C ] specialized literature a mental picture or idea that forms in a reader's or listener's mind from the words that they read or hear:
The poem is full of images of birth and new life.
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- I can't get that dreadful image out of my mind.
- Recently the president has sought to project a much tougher image.
- For some people, the word 'England' may still conjure up images of pretty gardens and tea parties.
- The city is trying to shrug off its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
- Water, a symbol of life, recurs as an image throughout her poems.
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Imagining and conceiving
- a reach of the imagination idiom
- assume
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceive
- conceptualize
- dream
- feel
- fertile
- foundation
- grant
- look on/upon sb/sth as sth
- mind
- picture
- presumption
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- reckon
- riot
- suspicion
- vision
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Conditions and characteristics
Ideas, concepts and theories
image noun (PICTURE)
B2 [ C ] any picture, especially one formed by a mirror or a lens:
television images of starving children
The image you see in the mirror.
More examples
- Television confronts the viewer with a succession of glittering and seductive images.
- Their pilots are guided by an infrared optical system that shows images clearly even at night.
- You can use the device to scan the image and reproduce it on-screen in an electronic format.
- One of the film's many unsettling images is of a child playing with her father's gun.
- Can you improve the sharpness of the image at all?
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Physics: optics, microscopy & lasers
- binoculars
- chromatic aberration
- converging lens
- diffuse reflection
- electron microscope
- field glasses
- focus
- laser
- laser-guided
- magnification
- magnifier
- magnify
- magnifying glass
- microscopy
- opera glasses
- powerful
- reflective
- resolution
- slide
- transparency
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Pictures
Idiom(s)
be the (living/spitting) image of sb