English > image: 11 senses > noun 3, artifact| Meaning | A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface. |
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| Example | "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" |
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| Synonyms | picture, icon, ikon |
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| Narrower | bitmap, electronic image | An image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels |
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| chiaroscuro | A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color |
| collage, montage | A paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image |
| foil, transparency | picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base |
| graphic, computer graphic | An image that is generated by a computer |
| iconography | The images / images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject / subject |
| inset | A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one |
| likeness, semblance | picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing |
| panorama, cyclorama, diorama | A picture / picture (or series of pictures / pictures) representing a continuous scene |
| reflection, reflexion | The image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material) |
| scan, CAT scan | An image produced by scanning |
| sonogram, echogram | An image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves) |
| Broader | representation | A creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something |
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| Spanish | fotografía, foto, ilustración, imagen, retrato |
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| Catalan | fotografia, foto, imatge |
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| Verbs | image | imagine |
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English > image: 11 senses > noun 5, communication| Meaning | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. |
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| Synonyms | trope, figure of speech, figure |
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| Narrower | conceit | An elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar / dissimilar things |
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| hyperbole, exaggeration | extravagant exaggeration |
| irony | A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs |
| kenning | conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry |
| metaphor | A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
| metonymy | Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') |
| oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') |
| personification, prosopopoeia | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature |
| simile | A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
| synecdoche | Substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa |
| zeugma | Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one |
| Broader | rhetorical device | A use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
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| Usage | bell ringer, bull's eye, mark, home run | Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal |
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| blind alley | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement |
| blockbuster, megahit, smash hit | An unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) |
| cakewalk | An easy accomplishment |
| dawn | An opening time period |
| domino effect | The consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall / fall) |
| evening | A later concluding time period |
| flip side | A different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect) |
| goldbrick | Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless |
| helm | A position of leadership |
| housecleaning | (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions |
| lens | (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood |
| period | The end or completion of something |
| rainy day | A (future) time of financial need |
| sleeper | An unexpected hit |
| summer | The period of finest development, happiness, or beauty |
| Spanish | imagen, metáfora, tropo |
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| Catalan | imatge, trop, tropo |
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English > image: 11 senses > verb 2, creation| Meaning | imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Synonyms | visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture |
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| Broader | imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case |
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| Similar to | understand, realize, realise, see | perceive (an idea or situation) mentally |
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| visualize, visualise | form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract |
| Spanish | figurarse, imaginarse, imaginar, representarse, ver, visualizar |
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| Catalan | figurar-se, imaginar-se, representar-se, veure |
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| Nouns | image | a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface |
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| image | a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) |
| image | an iconic mental representation |
| imaging, imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events |
