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(noun) an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" |
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Synonyms: mental image |
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Related Words: auditory image, imagination image, impression, internal representation, memory image, mental picture, mental representation, picture, representation, thought-image, visual image, visualisation, visualization |
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(noun) a likeness of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" |
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Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum |
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Related Words: Guy, god, graven image, idol, representation, scarecrow, strawman, wax figure, waxwork |
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(noun) a visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" |
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Synonyms: icon, ikon, picture |
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Related Words: bitmap, chiaroscuro, cyclorama, diorama, electronic image, exposure, foil, inset, likeness, panorama, photo, photograph, reflection, representation, semblance, sonogram, transparency |
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(noun) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" |
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Synonyms: persona |
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Related Words: appearance, visual aspect |
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(noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" |
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Synonyms: double |
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Related Words: dead ringer, human, individual, mortal, person, ringer, somebody, someone, soul |
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(noun) a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" |
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Synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype |
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Related Words: concentrate, example, imago, model |
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(noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
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Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope |
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Related Words: exaggeration, hyperbole, irony, kenning, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, personification, prosopopoeia, rhetorical device, simile, synecdoche, zeugma |
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(verb) imagine; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!" "I can see what will happen" |
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Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualize |
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Related Words: conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine |
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