Definition of image in English:

image

noun ˈɪmɪdʒˈɪmɪdʒ

1A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art.
形象（画像、塑像等）
her work juxtaposed images from serious and popular art
Example sentencesExamples
- This is an episode from the Mahabharatha and is based on a ritual in which Bhima kills Duryodhana represented as an image in clay.
- The images are sculpted in bronze and achieve a rich antique green petina colour.
- Her images represent the transformations of the country and its people.
- The ‘Groundview’ series of paintings uses different images to represent the ground as space.
- The images represent the spirits of people of African descent who died in the Middle Passage or later in the Americas.
- The motifs and figures represented include polychrome images of bison, masks, and quadrilateral signs of unknown meaning.
- Painting images from the head instead of sitting down and sketching what's in front of me seems certainly to lend weight to the argument.
- Around the walls women are painting images depicting the horror and suffering of the war.
- Kathleen, a silversmith, has used silver and other metals to create everything from vases to 2D images and sculpture.
- He recalls being awestruck by these images, especially the paintings of St. Mary and St. George.
- To those who know his work, he is a genius - a sculptor who creates life-like images of outback symbols.
- The images seem minimalist, using few lines to represent detailed images and also exclude deep shading.
- Abstract paintings abandon images of the external world, speaking instead directly to people's internal thought processes.
- I had to hack off some heads, turn the images into formal, sculpturesque forms, which was not my intent.
- One window - in stained glass - is a representational image of the moorland around the Brontë shrine.
- He covered people with gold and silver foil, posing as images in heroic sculptures.
- Everyone sees different things in the paintings, interpreting images according to their experience.
- Viewed from a contemporary design vantage point, the images represent an interesting study in contrasts.
- Like the sculpture, the images represent a very naive viewpoint in the art world.
- There were sketches and paintings and collages and images of the tsunami disaster.
Synonyms
likeness, resemblance
depiction, portrayal, representation
statue, statuette, sculpture, bust, effigy, figure, figurine, doll, carving
painting, picture, portrait, drawing, sketch, artist's impression
1. 1.1 A visible impression obtained by a camera, telescope, microscope, or other device, or displayed on a computer or video screen.
  （相机、显微镜、荧屏等显现的）影像，图像
  Voyager 2 sent back images of the planet Neptune
  Example sentencesExamples
  This complexity has lead to beautiful and amazing images obtained with modern telescopes.
  Secondly, it is a re-negotiation of the way space is represented in the photographic image.
  The scope is then attached to a camera, allowing the doctor to see a clear image on a video screen.
  The real issue of sensitivity lies with the editors, producers and proprietors who decide how the images and words are presented to the public.
  There's a control station with a colour video display showing the images from two cameras at any one time.
  You might want to use an image from your favorite screen saver in another program.
  As you push back the screen cover, the image on the display flips so what you are seeing is right side up.
  As search engines expand into images and video, they are increasingly at risk of becoming targets of copyright lawsuits.
  There are also controls for loading images from camera or computer.
  This image came to represent the essence of love and romance for at least one generation, many years after it was photographed.
  It also has an extra facility to make slide shows more dynamic, by allowing you to move images around the screen.
  Creators of fake images usually ignore the known physical properties of creating an image with a camera.
  A talented photographer, he is already busy capturing images to represent the important issues for his age group.
  The camera then projects your image directly onto the screen and senses your movement.
  You see, the problem with a digital camera is getting the images from the camera to your computer.
  The video camera then sends the image of the flower to the wallet-sized computer for complex processing.
  The 170 images represent 70 local photographers short-listed in the Picture of the Year competition.
  There's software included to take video clips or still images with your camera and send them via email.
  Increasing numbers of families have digital and video cameras to take images of their children.
  The camera then relayed the images to a lap-top computer so firefighters knew exactly where to cut into the side of the chimney downstairs.
  Synonyms
  picture, facsimile, photograph, snapshot, photo
  optical representation, reproduction
2. 1.2 An optical appearance or counterpart produced by light from an object reflected in a mirror or refracted through a lens.
  镜像
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the steam in the bathroom began to vent, the mirror cleared and his image appeared before him.
  When the temperature difference is large enough, the warmer air refracts the light and amazing images can be seen.
  Cracked mirrors reflected disturbing distorted images of the room.
  These eyes use a single lens to focus images onto a light detector called a retina.
  He also studied spherical and parabolic mirrors, and understood how refraction by a lens will allow images to be focused and magnification to take place.
  Cheap mirrors reflect distorted amusement-park images of fighters who shadow-box before them.
  Scallops have eyes that form images with reflective mirrors.
  I was in for another surprise when I saw familiar images reflected in the mirror.
  An otherwise empty room contains large mirrors which reflect visitors' images from different angles.
  When the images are caught by reflection in a graceful wall mirror, they are once more displaced and desubstantialized.
  Contact lenses can balance the image from both eyes, and correct any irregularities or astigmatism of the eye.
  Water and glass are opaque, they refract, diffuse, obscure, and reflect images.
  Some children are born with cataracts, which are a cloudiness of the eye's lenses that prevent images from being seen clearly or at all.
  Essentially one sees an image of the light sources reflected on the pupil.
  Refractive errors mean that the shape of the eye doesn't refract, or bend, light properly, so images appear blurred.
  Also, bear in mind that the fresnel lens both flips the image upside down and has a mirror effect on the text.
  He had painted himself from his image reflected in a mirror, which reversed right and left.
  The short effective focal length provides focused images at distances from lens contact to near infinity, even in air.
  When the eye creates an image the cornea and lens bend incoming light rays to focus them on the retina.
  For miles, as far as the eye could see, the surface of the big loch was like a mirror, reflecting images of mountains and wooded slopes.
  Synonyms
  reflection, mirror image, likeness
  echo
3. 1.3Mathematics A point or set formed by mapping from another point or set.
  〔数〕像点；像
  Example sentencesExamples
  Consider a triangle and its homothetic image in the Lemoine point of the triangle.
  Maybe one day it will be sufficient to think about the images involved in a mathematical idea or proof, and a computer will compute the underlying equations for us.
  But to determine the center of a spiral similarity one only needs one segment and its image.
  In his doctoral dissertation of 1934 he considered permutation groups whose elements are determined by the images of three points.
4. 1.4Computing An exact copy of a computer's hard disk, made for backing up data or setting up new machines.
  〔计算机〕硬盘备份
  Example sentencesExamples
  Next, an image of the drive can be created using tools such as Norton Ghost or Power Quest Drive Image.
  RAID 1 (known as "mirroring") creates an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive or from multiple drives to a second set of multiple drives.
  For one thing, there will be two versions: the Internet download version, and the CD version (which we want to also be downloadable as a CD image).
  Here, the program re-created a 490MB hard drive image in the foreground while we converted ten WAV files into MP3s in the background.
  As the drive was creating the image, I could hear it start at a low speed and gradually increase to faster speeds.
5. 1.5 A mental representation or idea.
  幻象，形象
  I had a sudden image of Sal bringing me breakfast in bed
  Example sentencesExamples
  I suddenly get a mental image of him pulling out of a Arizona truck stop and burning away down the open highway blasting vintage gay house.
  She immediately stopped smoking; the image of those nasty lungs was burned into her brain forever.
  The brain requires practice at forming those mental images in order to absorb increasingly complex or abstract ideas in later life.
  Any image or idea we have of God is certainly inadequate, probably inaccurate, and possibly misleading.
  It was enough to allow him a mental image of what he expected to see.
  The poem has been quite cathartic because I have had all those ideas for the images in my head for years.
  More than any other, there is deconstructionism, according to which the images and ideas that constitute culture are deconstructed.
  This brings to mind some disturbing mental images.
  A couple minutes later the lights returned and images appeared in her head.
  Capital and labour flow at different rates in different directions, as do images and ideas.
  His mental image is not a representation of a tree.
  Synonyms
  conception, impression, idea, concept, perception, notion
  mental picture, mental representation, conceptualization, vision, fancy, thought
6. 1.6in singular A person or thing that closely resembles another.
  极其相像的人（或物），翻版
  he's the image of his father
  他与其父极其相像。
  Synonyms
  double, living image, replica, lookalike, clone, copy, reproduction, twin, duplicate, exact likeness, facsimile, counterpart, mirror image
  German Doppelgänger
  informal very spit, dead spit, spitting image, chip off the old block, ringer, dead ringer
  archaic similitude
7. 1.7in singular Semblance or likeness.
  相似，貌似物
  made in the image of God
  以上帝的形象创造。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unfortunately, following the old adage that mothers raise their sons in the image of the men they wish they had married, our mums refuse to give up on us.
  His is the pure logic of fiction, shaping a world in the image of the art that depicts it.
  They then try to recreate themselves in the image of their role models.
  We are reconfiguring the past in the image of our times.
  Part of the uniqueness of humanity, beings created in the image of God, is our instinct to seek and to enjoy the pleasures of seeking.
  Christians and Jews are able to claim that our dignity rests upon being created in imagio dei, in the image of God.
  Our rights do, in fact, come from the fact that we are created in the image of our creator.
  Songs built in the image of the seven-inch pop song, their length still dictated by the old format, continue to be at the centre of the pop world.
  We can indeed see this suggested in the biblical statement about human beings made in the image of God.
  Remarkably, after a few meetings with Griffith, she became a Nationalist in the image of Griffith.
  They want to spoil the divine likeness of man made in the image of God.
  We've been negligent in our examination of what it means to be re-created in the image of Christ.
  As a manager, a team is very much in the image of yourself.
  For some it was a matter of pride, one small country helping to create a world empire in the image of Rome.
  They say that this has not just begun to happen: actually it was the dead who built the upper Eusapia, in the image of their city.
  The gilded silver pinhead, styled in the image of a bird of prey, is one of a handful of examples discovered in Britain and will go on display in London.
  We're made in the image of the Maker and itch to find some way to create.
  In the 1980s the two institutions launched a crusade to remake the world in the image of the free market.
  To be in the image of God is to bear the stamp or outline of God.
  The huge influx of cash at the turn of the millennium led to the whole Web being built in the image of the Bay area.
  Synonyms
  semblance, guise, appearance, outward form, form, shape, aspect, character, mien
8. 1.8 (in biblical use) an idol.
  〈圣经〉偶像
  Example sentencesExamples
  I also don't know of any religion that has no idol or image of its God.
  They are the enemy, and it is the nature of the enemy to show you false images and idols.
  While the church saw the importance of art as a method of instruction, it also faced a biblical injunction against images.
  Until recently, sandblasting was the method used to clean various stone idols, images, and pillars.
  Antique finish, white metal and black metal idols (mostly images of deities) too have been exhibited.
  Mystics throughout the ages have understood how the holy fire burns away the superficial images and idols we erect.
  They are implored to destroy the carved images and idols of the inhabitants, and to possess and settle the land given to the Jews by God.
  If an image is automatically an idol, why did God tell Israel to have graven images of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant?
  Synonyms
  idol, icon, fetish, false god, golden calf, totem, talisman
2The general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public.
（人、组织、产品呈现的）形象
she strives to project an image of youth
她力争呈现一种青春的形象。
Example sentencesExamples
- If the players think they are enhancing the image of the game by binge drinking, or worse, then the game will always tetter on the edge of disaster.
- It said it ‘tarnished the image of the university’ and was ‘devastated’ by the claims.
- Coupled with a desire for change in the image of the police is one for improved relations with the public.
- Using a limited amount of space, an artist creates a visual to convey the music inside, which not only has to sell the album but the image of the band as well.
- There have been attempts to present a more open image to the public.
- The leaders of the opposition used the October 24 general strike as a platform to improve their public image.
- The market tends to be suspicious of sudden attempts to change the nature of the product or the image of the organisation.
- Within the past five years, a revolution in the image of dieting has taken place.
- He's already starting out with the image of being a liberal from Massachusetts, and all of that type of baggage.
- The image of an injury-ravaged bunch bravely battling against cruel fate is not a bad one to project if you want to dampen expectations about your chances.
- In India the term is used for the younger generation of people who present a hip image.
- This year the Tidy Towns Committee would like to see a greater effort being made amongst the local community to enchant the image of the town.
- These commercials often incorporate the image of pop and movie stars to give their houses the proper sense of glamour and affluence.
- But local politicians believe the arrival of the travellers tainted the image of the medieval attraction.
- The entry points to the open space will be well defined with landscape elements and will be treated in such a manner as to present an image of public space.
- I smiled a lot and presented an image to the public that all was fine.
- It is totally up to the prosecutors themselves to ease such public doubt and present a transformed image of the prosecution.
- But this festival in Marrakech is as important for the image of Morocco as it is for the careers of the stars.
- Similar results were found for the image of the agriculture and food industry as a whole.
- They each projected a public image that wasn't purely fiction, but there was a heavily invented element to it.
Synonyms
public perception, public conception, public impression, persona, profile, face, identity, front, facade, mask, guise, role, part
portrayal, depiction
3A simile or metaphor.
比喻，明喻，暗喻
he uses the image of a hole to describe emotional emptiness
他用“空洞”这一比喻来描述情感空虚。
Example sentencesExamples
- I asked him how these Christian images arose in what was, after all, secular writing for a general audience.
- In Hosea, the sexual images are equally clear and far less strident.
- In the West we know her as a poet of witty conceits and memorable images.
- This identity, in a culture of affluence, is no better declared than through the biblical image of the steward.
- White Teeth uses as its central metaphor the image of a white soldier fighting black men in the jungle.
- Numerous New Testament images echo the belonging and counting of everyone.
- Evidently, only the images and metaphors of fiction could do justice to the welter of searing impressions.
- When Jesus describes himself as shepherd-esque, he echoes the images of Ezekiel 34.
- In this way he used the image of ghetto as a metaphor for Jewish social and moral conditions.
- I listened for recurring images, words, metaphors, and contradictions in the narrative.
- In other words, for all the images and metaphors music often presents us with, an album cover is its tangible embodiment.
- From the body of work represented by the book as a whole, the figure of a small boy emerges as an image of the struggle to speak.
- Woolf evidently responded to the gypsy figure as an image for desire between women.
- In line two Valery repeats sounds that echo those of previous stanzas and words that recall earlier images.
- Metaphorical images are so effective due to the social and natural contexts in which we acquire or learn their meanings.
- And of course, garden images in the parables struck a chord with an ancient community so dependent on the harvest to survive.
- The words pour forth like lava, steadily and ominously, packed with gritty images and metaphors.
- The poem opens hyperbolically with an image of an innocent young nymph who spends her days reclining in the grass.
- To use another biblical image, God did not choose to wash the earth clean in a flood again.
- So also, in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity is the image of the Mother and Child.
Synonyms
simile, metaphor, metonymy
figure of speech, trope, figurative expression, turn of phrase, rhetorical device, conceit
word painting, word picture

verb ˈɪmɪdʒˈɪmɪdʒ

[with object]

1Make a representation of the external form of.
作…的像，描绘…的形象
artworks which imaged women's bodies
描绘女性躯体形象的艺术品。
Example sentencesExamples
- We question the motivations of those who make the images, while the real people imaged in these photographs die unacknowledged.
- The female body imaged in the film is not abstract, generalised or idealised.
- If the picture burns, it is not Charles VII as imaged that burns but simply the material object that serves as an analagon for the manifestation of the imagined object.
- He might have pointed out, for example, that one reason why Yahweh is not to be imaged is that the only depiction of Him is provided by human beings.
1. 1.1 Make a visual representation of (something) by scanning it with a detector or electromagnetic beam.
  （以探测器或电磁束）扫描出…的直观图
  Example sentencesExamples
  The removal of the diffraction pattern is a major advantage when trying to image faint sources near a bright star.
  E-mail and medical imaging applications represent good examples for the data aging profile described here.
  No exoplanets have been imaged directly, so astronomers are working out their sizes and dynamics by their effect on their parent stars.
  The acoustic imaging sensors help detect mines and other potentially hazardous objects.
  One objective of the early sky scan was to image the morning clouds with the PanCam.
  Working from a light airplane, where imaging altitudes are higher, requires a larger detector.
  CAT scans and MRI scans are imaging studies which are often obtained to check for distant spread of the tumor.
  Many different electronic and imaged documents might exist for a single customer: invoices, bills of shipping, activity reports, data mining graphs.
  A greater volume of the body can be imaged in a shorter time, allowing evaluation of the vasculature from the aortic arch to the circle of Willis.
  In some cases, the blood vessels of the heart, brain, lungs and legs can be imaged without invasive procedures.
  He will engage in meditation while having his brain scanned by state-of-the-art brain imaging devices.
  Internal textures were imaged using backscattered electrons and cathodoluminescence.
  This printer really changed my outlook on what is possible with digital imaging these days.
  After all, your doctor is making decisions about your treatment based on imaging hardware today.
  Satellite sensors imaged the resulting pattern of crests and troughs into the series of tsunami waves that devastated coastal areas throughout parts of the Indian Ocean.
  The orbiting infrared telescope imaged a new generation of stars in various stages of evolution, several dozen of which now gleam like gems at the heads of huge dust pillars created by the galactic weather conditions.
  This shaped beam profile is imaged through the telescope system onto the back focal plane of the microscope objective.
  The NASA-led Swift mission has detected and imaged its first gamma-ray burst, likely the birth cry of a brand new black hole.
  The scientific payload includes stereo imaging equipment, a laser altimeter, a magnetometers, and an X-ray Spectrometer.
  In many cases, a fetus will be imaged multiple times.
2. 1.2Computing Make an exact copy of (a computer's hard disk)
  the hard disk drive should be imaged using a specialized bitstream backup product
  Example sentencesExamples
  The advanced technology in leading-edge imaging products is not how they create a partition, but rather, how they image the disk.
  That's an extremely significant difference when you need to image a large disk and do not want multiple disks per volume.
  They can even image your computers at night, to avoid inevitable discussions by the water cooler.
  A multicast image can configure multiple systems simultaneously; conversely, you also can image multiple servers or workstations.
  Being unable to image those files means that the product cannot work in the Windows environment.
3. 1.3 Form a mental picture or idea of.
  幻想，想像
  it is possible for us to image a society in which no one committed crime
  我们有可能幻想出一个无人犯罪的社会。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The brioche bread used 6 eggs and 300 gm of butter so you can image the rich yellow colour it turned out.
  For imagination is the tool that allows us to image a future radically different from the past or even the present.
  It would be difficult to image many of the young clubbers there settling into two nights of the Eurovision.
  For these people one can image how this experience could quickly become the true pillar of their faith.
  I would image he's been under difficult conditions over the last 8 months.
  Try to image a child with painful wounds similar to burns covering most of his or her body.
  I can only image the delight with which Nixon would have cheered on this approach.
  Still, one can only image what the transfer would have looked like without the company's loving attention to detail.
  Presumably this is the lexicographic inspiration for the Star Trek species the Ferengi, though the person who imaged the Ferengi language here was certainly not patterning it on French, ancient or modern.
  I just can't image what would have taken them all away at once with no word.
  One can only image what they do to referees.
  In fact, when I was in prison I taught a class on how to stop smoking and we had people imaging themselves smoke free, you know.
  After all, can you image Todd and Tom on the same side of anything culinary?
  In short, you can definitely image Peter the Great living there in the summer.
  Many people image that the era of the Open Range in the American West was the era of the small rancher.
  One can only image the scene in the World Trade Center following the plane crashes.
  I would sometimes image what it would be like to go fishing with my father, or be cooking dinner with my mother.
  The consortium has been drowned by this tide of excess wage costs and it is hard to image anything it could have structurally altered to change this.
  Synonyms
  envisage, envision, imagine, conceive of, picture, dream up, see in one's mind's eye

Derivatives

imageable

adjective

imageless

adjective ˈɪmɪdʒləsˈɪmɪdʒləs

The girl looked around at the cave, noticing the imageless walls.
Example sentencesExamples
- The notion of a single cybernetic organism is rejected in favor of a body-without-organs, ‘an imageless, organless body [which is] perpetually reinserted into the process of production’.
- The viewer spends an inordinate amount of time staring at a black, imageless screen, being occasionally jarred by the sound of the piano.
- Somewhere in the centre is ‘the still point of the turning world’, to use Eliot's imageless image.
- Listening to radio via television is a curious experience as you stare blankly at an imageless blue screen while your ears do all the work.

Origin

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

The word image goes back to Latin imago ‘imitation, likeness, idea’, also behind imitation (Late Middle English). Imagine (Middle English) is closely related, coming from a combination of Latin imaginare ‘form an image of, represent’ and imaginari ‘picture to oneself ’.

Rhymes

scrimmage

Definition of image in US English:

image

nounˈimijˈɪmɪdʒ

1A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art.
形象（画像、塑像等）
Example sentencesExamples
- There were sketches and paintings and collages and images of the tsunami disaster.
- Like the sculpture, the images represent a very naive viewpoint in the art world.
- I had to hack off some heads, turn the images into formal, sculpturesque forms, which was not my intent.
- The motifs and figures represented include polychrome images of bison, masks, and quadrilateral signs of unknown meaning.
- One window - in stained glass - is a representational image of the moorland around the Brontë shrine.
- The images are sculpted in bronze and achieve a rich antique green petina colour.
- Kathleen, a silversmith, has used silver and other metals to create everything from vases to 2D images and sculpture.
- He covered people with gold and silver foil, posing as images in heroic sculptures.
- Abstract paintings abandon images of the external world, speaking instead directly to people's internal thought processes.
- The ‘Groundview’ series of paintings uses different images to represent the ground as space.
- To those who know his work, he is a genius - a sculptor who creates life-like images of outback symbols.
- He recalls being awestruck by these images, especially the paintings of St. Mary and St. George.
- This is an episode from the Mahabharatha and is based on a ritual in which Bhima kills Duryodhana represented as an image in clay.
- Painting images from the head instead of sitting down and sketching what's in front of me seems certainly to lend weight to the argument.
- The images seem minimalist, using few lines to represent detailed images and also exclude deep shading.
- Everyone sees different things in the paintings, interpreting images according to their experience.
- Viewed from a contemporary design vantage point, the images represent an interesting study in contrasts.
- Her images represent the transformations of the country and its people.
- The images represent the spirits of people of African descent who died in the Middle Passage or later in the Americas.
- Around the walls women are painting images depicting the horror and suffering of the war.
Synonyms
likeness, resemblance
1. 1.1 A visible impression obtained by a camera, telescope, microscope, or other device, or displayed on a computer or video screen.
  （相机、显微镜、荧屏等显现的）影像，图像
  Example sentencesExamples
  A talented photographer, he is already busy capturing images to represent the important issues for his age group.
  This image came to represent the essence of love and romance for at least one generation, many years after it was photographed.
  The video camera then sends the image of the flower to the wallet-sized computer for complex processing.
  The camera then projects your image directly onto the screen and senses your movement.
  Secondly, it is a re-negotiation of the way space is represented in the photographic image.
  Increasing numbers of families have digital and video cameras to take images of their children.
  As search engines expand into images and video, they are increasingly at risk of becoming targets of copyright lawsuits.
  You see, the problem with a digital camera is getting the images from the camera to your computer.
  There's a control station with a colour video display showing the images from two cameras at any one time.
  There are also controls for loading images from camera or computer.
  As you push back the screen cover, the image on the display flips so what you are seeing is right side up.
  Creators of fake images usually ignore the known physical properties of creating an image with a camera.
  It also has an extra facility to make slide shows more dynamic, by allowing you to move images around the screen.
  The scope is then attached to a camera, allowing the doctor to see a clear image on a video screen.
  This complexity has lead to beautiful and amazing images obtained with modern telescopes.
  The real issue of sensitivity lies with the editors, producers and proprietors who decide how the images and words are presented to the public.
  You might want to use an image from your favorite screen saver in another program.
  The camera then relayed the images to a lap-top computer so firefighters knew exactly where to cut into the side of the chimney downstairs.
  There's software included to take video clips or still images with your camera and send them via email.
  The 170 images represent 70 local photographers short-listed in the Picture of the Year competition.
  Synonyms
  picture, facsimile, photograph, snapshot, photo
2. 1.2 An optical appearance or counterpart produced by light or other radiation from an object reflected in a mirror or refracted through a lens.
  镜像
  Example sentencesExamples
  He had painted himself from his image reflected in a mirror, which reversed right and left.
  Some children are born with cataracts, which are a cloudiness of the eye's lenses that prevent images from being seen clearly or at all.
  Cracked mirrors reflected disturbing distorted images of the room.
  Refractive errors mean that the shape of the eye doesn't refract, or bend, light properly, so images appear blurred.
  Cheap mirrors reflect distorted amusement-park images of fighters who shadow-box before them.
  An otherwise empty room contains large mirrors which reflect visitors' images from different angles.
  Scallops have eyes that form images with reflective mirrors.
  As the steam in the bathroom began to vent, the mirror cleared and his image appeared before him.
  When the temperature difference is large enough, the warmer air refracts the light and amazing images can be seen.
  Water and glass are opaque, they refract, diffuse, obscure, and reflect images.
  For miles, as far as the eye could see, the surface of the big loch was like a mirror, reflecting images of mountains and wooded slopes.
  I was in for another surprise when I saw familiar images reflected in the mirror.
  These eyes use a single lens to focus images onto a light detector called a retina.
  Contact lenses can balance the image from both eyes, and correct any irregularities or astigmatism of the eye.
  Also, bear in mind that the fresnel lens both flips the image upside down and has a mirror effect on the text.
  The short effective focal length provides focused images at distances from lens contact to near infinity, even in air.
  He also studied spherical and parabolic mirrors, and understood how refraction by a lens will allow images to be focused and magnification to take place.
  Essentially one sees an image of the light sources reflected on the pupil.
  When the images are caught by reflection in a graceful wall mirror, they are once more displaced and desubstantialized.
  When the eye creates an image the cornea and lens bend incoming light rays to focus them on the retina.
  Synonyms
  reflection, mirror image, likeness
3. 1.3Mathematics A point or set formed by mapping from another point or set.
  〔数〕像点；像
  Example sentencesExamples
  Maybe one day it will be sufficient to think about the images involved in a mathematical idea or proof, and a computer will compute the underlying equations for us.
  Consider a triangle and its homothetic image in the Lemoine point of the triangle.
  But to determine the center of a spiral similarity one only needs one segment and its image.
  In his doctoral dissertation of 1934 he considered permutation groups whose elements are determined by the images of three points.
4. 1.4Computing An exact copy of a computer's hard disk, made for backing up data or setting up new machines.
  〔计算机〕硬盘备份
  Example sentencesExamples
  RAID 1 (known as "mirroring") creates an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive or from multiple drives to a second set of multiple drives.
  Next, an image of the drive can be created using tools such as Norton Ghost or Power Quest Drive Image.
  As the drive was creating the image, I could hear it start at a low speed and gradually increase to faster speeds.
  Here, the program re-created a 490MB hard drive image in the foreground while we converted ten WAV files into MP3s in the background.
  For one thing, there will be two versions: the Internet download version, and the CD version (which we want to also be downloadable as a CD image).
5. 1.5 A mental representation or idea.
  幻象，形象
  he had an image of Uncle Walter throwing his crutches away
  他心中出现一幕沃尔特叔叔扔掉拐杖的幻象。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Capital and labour flow at different rates in different directions, as do images and ideas.
  The poem has been quite cathartic because I have had all those ideas for the images in my head for years.
  Any image or idea we have of God is certainly inadequate, probably inaccurate, and possibly misleading.
  I suddenly get a mental image of him pulling out of a Arizona truck stop and burning away down the open highway blasting vintage gay house.
  It was enough to allow him a mental image of what he expected to see.
  His mental image is not a representation of a tree.
  The brain requires practice at forming those mental images in order to absorb increasingly complex or abstract ideas in later life.
  More than any other, there is deconstructionism, according to which the images and ideas that constitute culture are deconstructed.
  She immediately stopped smoking; the image of those nasty lungs was burned into her brain forever.
  This brings to mind some disturbing mental images.
  A couple minutes later the lights returned and images appeared in her head.
  Synonyms
  conception, impression, idea, concept, perception, notion
6. 1.6in singular A person or thing that closely resembles another.
  极其相像的人（或物），翻版
  he's the image of his father
  他与其父极其相像。
  Synonyms
  double, living image, replica, lookalike, clone, copy, reproduction, twin, duplicate, exact likeness, facsimile, counterpart, mirror image
7. 1.7in singular Semblance or likeness.
  相似，貌似物
  we are made in the image of God
  以上帝的形象创造。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Christians and Jews are able to claim that our dignity rests upon being created in imagio dei, in the image of God.
  We're made in the image of the Maker and itch to find some way to create.
  To be in the image of God is to bear the stamp or outline of God.
  The huge influx of cash at the turn of the millennium led to the whole Web being built in the image of the Bay area.
  His is the pure logic of fiction, shaping a world in the image of the art that depicts it.
  They want to spoil the divine likeness of man made in the image of God.
  As a manager, a team is very much in the image of yourself.
  In the 1980s the two institutions launched a crusade to remake the world in the image of the free market.
  Remarkably, after a few meetings with Griffith, she became a Nationalist in the image of Griffith.
  Part of the uniqueness of humanity, beings created in the image of God, is our instinct to seek and to enjoy the pleasures of seeking.
  They say that this has not just begun to happen: actually it was the dead who built the upper Eusapia, in the image of their city.
  The gilded silver pinhead, styled in the image of a bird of prey, is one of a handful of examples discovered in Britain and will go on display in London.
  We've been negligent in our examination of what it means to be re-created in the image of Christ.
  Our rights do, in fact, come from the fact that we are created in the image of our creator.
  We can indeed see this suggested in the biblical statement about human beings made in the image of God.
  Unfortunately, following the old adage that mothers raise their sons in the image of the men they wish they had married, our mums refuse to give up on us.
  For some it was a matter of pride, one small country helping to create a world empire in the image of Rome.
  They then try to recreate themselves in the image of their role models.
  Songs built in the image of the seven-inch pop song, their length still dictated by the old format, continue to be at the centre of the pop world.
  We are reconfiguring the past in the image of our times.
  Synonyms
  semblance, guise, appearance, outward form, form, shape, aspect, character, mien
8. 1.8 (in biblical use) an idol.
  〈圣经〉偶像
  Example sentencesExamples
  I also don't know of any religion that has no idol or image of its God.
  Mystics throughout the ages have understood how the holy fire burns away the superficial images and idols we erect.
  They are the enemy, and it is the nature of the enemy to show you false images and idols.
  They are implored to destroy the carved images and idols of the inhabitants, and to possess and settle the land given to the Jews by God.
  While the church saw the importance of art as a method of instruction, it also faced a biblical injunction against images.
  Antique finish, white metal and black metal idols (mostly images of deities) too have been exhibited.
  Until recently, sandblasting was the method used to clean various stone idols, images, and pillars.
  If an image is automatically an idol, why did God tell Israel to have graven images of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant?
  Synonyms
  idol, icon, fetish, false god, golden calf, totem, talisman
2The general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public.
（人、组织、产品呈现的）形象
she strives to project an image of youth
她力争呈现一种青春的形象。
Example sentencesExamples
- There have been attempts to present a more open image to the public.
- If the players think they are enhancing the image of the game by binge drinking, or worse, then the game will always tetter on the edge of disaster.
- But local politicians believe the arrival of the travellers tainted the image of the medieval attraction.
- These commercials often incorporate the image of pop and movie stars to give their houses the proper sense of glamour and affluence.
- They each projected a public image that wasn't purely fiction, but there was a heavily invented element to it.
- Similar results were found for the image of the agriculture and food industry as a whole.
- Coupled with a desire for change in the image of the police is one for improved relations with the public.
- I smiled a lot and presented an image to the public that all was fine.
- Using a limited amount of space, an artist creates a visual to convey the music inside, which not only has to sell the album but the image of the band as well.
- It said it ‘tarnished the image of the university’ and was ‘devastated’ by the claims.
- This year the Tidy Towns Committee would like to see a greater effort being made amongst the local community to enchant the image of the town.
- But this festival in Marrakech is as important for the image of Morocco as it is for the careers of the stars.
- The leaders of the opposition used the October 24 general strike as a platform to improve their public image.
- The image of an injury-ravaged bunch bravely battling against cruel fate is not a bad one to project if you want to dampen expectations about your chances.
- He's already starting out with the image of being a liberal from Massachusetts, and all of that type of baggage.
- In India the term is used for the younger generation of people who present a hip image.
- The market tends to be suspicious of sudden attempts to change the nature of the product or the image of the organisation.
- The entry points to the open space will be well defined with landscape elements and will be treated in such a manner as to present an image of public space.
- It is totally up to the prosecutors themselves to ease such public doubt and present a transformed image of the prosecution.
- Within the past five years, a revolution in the image of dieting has taken place.
Synonyms
public perception, public conception, public impression, persona, profile, face, identity, front, facade, mask, guise, role, part
3A simile or metaphor.
比喻，明喻，暗喻
he uses the image of a hole to describe emotional emptiness
他用“空洞”这一比喻来描述情感空虚。
Example sentencesExamples
- In Hosea, the sexual images are equally clear and far less strident.
- This identity, in a culture of affluence, is no better declared than through the biblical image of the steward.
- Evidently, only the images and metaphors of fiction could do justice to the welter of searing impressions.
- White Teeth uses as its central metaphor the image of a white soldier fighting black men in the jungle.
- In this way he used the image of ghetto as a metaphor for Jewish social and moral conditions.
- Numerous New Testament images echo the belonging and counting of everyone.
- The poem opens hyperbolically with an image of an innocent young nymph who spends her days reclining in the grass.
- To use another biblical image, God did not choose to wash the earth clean in a flood again.
- So also, in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity is the image of the Mother and Child.
- Woolf evidently responded to the gypsy figure as an image for desire between women.
- And of course, garden images in the parables struck a chord with an ancient community so dependent on the harvest to survive.
- When Jesus describes himself as shepherd-esque, he echoes the images of Ezekiel 34.
- In line two Valery repeats sounds that echo those of previous stanzas and words that recall earlier images.
- From the body of work represented by the book as a whole, the figure of a small boy emerges as an image of the struggle to speak.
- In the West we know her as a poet of witty conceits and memorable images.
- The words pour forth like lava, steadily and ominously, packed with gritty images and metaphors.
- I asked him how these Christian images arose in what was, after all, secular writing for a general audience.
- In other words, for all the images and metaphors music often presents us with, an album cover is its tangible embodiment.
- Metaphorical images are so effective due to the social and natural contexts in which we acquire or learn their meanings.
- I listened for recurring images, words, metaphors, and contradictions in the narrative.
Synonyms
simile, metaphor, metonymy

verbˈimijˈɪmɪdʒ

[with object]

1Make a representation of the external form of.
作…的像，描绘…的形象
artworks that imaged women's bodies
描绘女性躯体形象的艺术品。
Example sentencesExamples
- We question the motivations of those who make the images, while the real people imaged in these photographs die unacknowledged.
- He might have pointed out, for example, that one reason why Yahweh is not to be imaged is that the only depiction of Him is provided by human beings.
- If the picture burns, it is not Charles VII as imaged that burns but simply the material object that serves as an analagon for the manifestation of the imagined object.
- The female body imaged in the film is not abstract, generalised or idealised.
1. 1.1 Make a visual representation of (something) by scanning it with a detector or electromagnetic beam.
  （以探测器或电磁束）扫描出…的直观图
  every point on the Earth's surface was imaged by the satellite
  Example sentencesExamples
  E-mail and medical imaging applications represent good examples for the data aging profile described here.
  In many cases, a fetus will be imaged multiple times.
  The NASA-led Swift mission has detected and imaged its first gamma-ray burst, likely the birth cry of a brand new black hole.
  The removal of the diffraction pattern is a major advantage when trying to image faint sources near a bright star.
  The scientific payload includes stereo imaging equipment, a laser altimeter, a magnetometers, and an X-ray Spectrometer.
  The orbiting infrared telescope imaged a new generation of stars in various stages of evolution, several dozen of which now gleam like gems at the heads of huge dust pillars created by the galactic weather conditions.
  In some cases, the blood vessels of the heart, brain, lungs and legs can be imaged without invasive procedures.
  Working from a light airplane, where imaging altitudes are higher, requires a larger detector.
  This shaped beam profile is imaged through the telescope system onto the back focal plane of the microscope objective.
  CAT scans and MRI scans are imaging studies which are often obtained to check for distant spread of the tumor.
  Internal textures were imaged using backscattered electrons and cathodoluminescence.
  This printer really changed my outlook on what is possible with digital imaging these days.
  No exoplanets have been imaged directly, so astronomers are working out their sizes and dynamics by their effect on their parent stars.
  He will engage in meditation while having his brain scanned by state-of-the-art brain imaging devices.
  Many different electronic and imaged documents might exist for a single customer: invoices, bills of shipping, activity reports, data mining graphs.
  Satellite sensors imaged the resulting pattern of crests and troughs into the series of tsunami waves that devastated coastal areas throughout parts of the Indian Ocean.
  A greater volume of the body can be imaged in a shorter time, allowing evaluation of the vasculature from the aortic arch to the circle of Willis.
  After all, your doctor is making decisions about your treatment based on imaging hardware today.
  One objective of the early sky scan was to image the morning clouds with the PanCam.
  The acoustic imaging sensors help detect mines and other potentially hazardous objects.
2. 1.2Computing Make an exact copy of (a computer's hard disk)
  the hard disk drive should be imaged using a specialized bitstream backup product
  Example sentencesExamples
  That's an extremely significant difference when you need to image a large disk and do not want multiple disks per volume.
  The advanced technology in leading-edge imaging products is not how they create a partition, but rather, how they image the disk.
  A multicast image can configure multiple systems simultaneously; conversely, you also can image multiple servers or workstations.
  They can even image your computers at night, to avoid inevitable discussions by the water cooler.
  Being unable to image those files means that the product cannot work in the Windows environment.
3. 1.3 Form a mental picture or idea of.
  幻想，想像
  it is possible for us to image a society in which no one committed crime
  我们有可能幻想出一个无人犯罪的社会。
  Example sentencesExamples
  After all, can you image Todd and Tom on the same side of anything culinary?
  Many people image that the era of the Open Range in the American West was the era of the small rancher.
  One can only image what they do to referees.
  I would image he's been under difficult conditions over the last 8 months.
  It would be difficult to image many of the young clubbers there settling into two nights of the Eurovision.
  The brioche bread used 6 eggs and 300 gm of butter so you can image the rich yellow colour it turned out.
  One can only image the scene in the World Trade Center following the plane crashes.
  For imagination is the tool that allows us to image a future radically different from the past or even the present.
  In short, you can definitely image Peter the Great living there in the summer.
  I can only image the delight with which Nixon would have cheered on this approach.
  For these people one can image how this experience could quickly become the true pillar of their faith.
  In fact, when I was in prison I taught a class on how to stop smoking and we had people imaging themselves smoke free, you know.
  Try to image a child with painful wounds similar to burns covering most of his or her body.
  Presumably this is the lexicographic inspiration for the Star Trek species the Ferengi, though the person who imaged the Ferengi language here was certainly not patterning it on French, ancient or modern.
  The consortium has been drowned by this tide of excess wage costs and it is hard to image anything it could have structurally altered to change this.
  I would sometimes image what it would be like to go fishing with my father, or be cooking dinner with my mother.
  Still, one can only image what the transfer would have looked like without the company's loving attention to detail.
  I just can't image what would have taken them all away at once with no word.
  Synonyms
  envisage, envision, imagine, conceive of, picture, dream up, see in one's mind's eye

Origin

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

词汇	image
释义	Definition of image in English: image noun ˈɪmɪdʒˈɪmɪdʒ 1A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art. 形象（画像、塑像等） her work juxtaposed images from serious and popular art Example sentencesExamples This is an episode from the Mahabharatha and is based on a ritual in which Bhima kills Duryodhana represented as an image in clay. The images are sculpted in bronze and achieve a rich antique green petina colour. Her images represent the transformations of the country and its people. The ‘Groundview’ series of paintings uses different images to represent the ground as space. The images represent the spirits of people of African descent who died in the Middle Passage or later in the Americas. The motifs and figures represented include polychrome images of bison, masks, and quadrilateral signs of unknown meaning. Painting images from the head instead of sitting down and sketching what's in front of me seems certainly to lend weight to the argument. Around the walls women are painting images depicting the horror and suffering of the war. Kathleen, a silversmith, has used silver and other metals to create everything from vases to 2D images and sculpture. He recalls being awestruck by these images, especially the paintings of St. Mary and St. George. To those who know his work, he is a genius - a sculptor who creates life-like images of outback symbols. The images seem minimalist, using few lines to represent detailed images and also exclude deep shading. Abstract paintings abandon images of the external world, speaking instead directly to people's internal thought processes. I had to hack off some heads, turn the images into formal, sculpturesque forms, which was not my intent. One window - in stained glass - is a representational image of the moorland around the Brontë shrine. He covered people with gold and silver foil, posing as images in heroic sculptures. Everyone sees different things in the paintings, interpreting images according to their experience. Viewed from a contemporary design vantage point, the images represent an interesting study in contrasts. Like the sculpture, the images represent a very naive viewpoint in the art world. There were sketches and paintings and collages and images of the tsunami disaster. Synonyms likeness, resemblance depiction, portrayal, representation statue, statuette, sculpture, bust, effigy, figure, figurine, doll, carving painting, picture, portrait, drawing, sketch, artist's impression 1.1 A visible impression obtained by a camera, telescope, microscope, or other device, or displayed on a computer or video screen. （相机、显微镜、荧屏等显现的）影像，图像 Voyager 2 sent back images of the planet Neptune Example sentencesExamples This complexity has lead to beautiful and amazing images obtained with modern telescopes. Secondly, it is a re-negotiation of the way space is represented in the photographic image. The scope is then attached to a camera, allowing the doctor to see a clear image on a video screen. The real issue of sensitivity lies with the editors, producers and proprietors who decide how the images and words are presented to the public. There's a control station with a colour video display showing the images from two cameras at any one time. You might want to use an image from your favorite screen saver in another program. As you push back the screen cover, the image on the display flips so what you are seeing is right side up. As search engines expand into images and video, they are increasingly at risk of becoming targets of copyright lawsuits. There are also controls for loading images from camera or computer. This image came to represent the essence of love and romance for at least one generation, many years after it was photographed. It also has an extra facility to make slide shows more dynamic, by allowing you to move images around the screen. Creators of fake images usually ignore the known physical properties of creating an image with a camera. A talented photographer, he is already busy capturing images to represent the important issues for his age group. The camera then projects your image directly onto the screen and senses your movement. You see, the problem with a digital camera is getting the images from the camera to your computer. The video camera then sends the image of the flower to the wallet-sized computer for complex processing. The 170 images represent 70 local photographers short-listed in the Picture of the Year competition. There's software included to take video clips or still images with your camera and send them via email. Increasing numbers of families have digital and video cameras to take images of their children. The camera then relayed the images to a lap-top computer so firefighters knew exactly where to cut into the side of the chimney downstairs. Synonyms picture, facsimile, photograph, snapshot, photo optical representation, reproduction 1.2 An optical appearance or counterpart produced by light from an object reflected in a mirror or refracted through a lens. 镜像 Example sentencesExamples As the steam in the bathroom began to vent, the mirror cleared and his image appeared before him. When the temperature difference is large enough, the warmer air refracts the light and amazing images can be seen. Cracked mirrors reflected disturbing distorted images of the room. These eyes use a single lens to focus images onto a light detector called a retina. He also studied spherical and parabolic mirrors, and understood how refraction by a lens will allow images to be focused and magnification to take place. Cheap mirrors reflect distorted amusement-park images of fighters who shadow-box before them. Scallops have eyes that form images with reflective mirrors. I was in for another surprise when I saw familiar images reflected in the mirror. An otherwise empty room contains large mirrors which reflect visitors' images from different angles. When the images are caught by reflection in a graceful wall mirror, they are once more displaced and desubstantialized. Contact lenses can balance the image from both eyes, and correct any irregularities or astigmatism of the eye. Water and glass are opaque, they refract, diffuse, obscure, and reflect images. Some children are born with cataracts, which are a cloudiness of the eye's lenses that prevent images from being seen clearly or at all. Essentially one sees an image of the light sources reflected on the pupil. Refractive errors mean that the shape of the eye doesn't refract, or bend, light properly, so images appear blurred. Also, bear in mind that the fresnel lens both flips the image upside down and has a mirror effect on the text. He had painted himself from his image reflected in a mirror, which reversed right and left. The short effective focal length provides focused images at distances from lens contact to near infinity, even in air. When the eye creates an image the cornea and lens bend incoming light rays to focus them on the retina. For miles, as far as the eye could see, the surface of the big loch was like a mirror, reflecting images of mountains and wooded slopes. Synonyms reflection, mirror image, likeness echo 1.3Mathematics A point or set formed by mapping from another point or set. 〔数〕像点；像 Example sentencesExamples Consider a triangle and its homothetic image in the Lemoine point of the triangle. Maybe one day it will be sufficient to think about the images involved in a mathematical idea or proof, and a computer will compute the underlying equations for us. But to determine the center of a spiral similarity one only needs one segment and its image. In his doctoral dissertation of 1934 he considered permutation groups whose elements are determined by the images of three points. 1.4Computing An exact copy of a computer's hard disk, made for backing up data or setting up new machines. 〔计算机〕硬盘备份 Example sentencesExamples Next, an image of the drive can be created using tools such as Norton Ghost or Power Quest Drive Image. RAID 1 (known as "mirroring") creates an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive or from multiple drives to a second set of multiple drives. For one thing, there will be two versions: the Internet download version, and the CD version (which we want to also be downloadable as a CD image). Here, the program re-created a 490MB hard drive image in the foreground while we converted ten WAV files into MP3s in the background. As the drive was creating the image, I could hear it start at a low speed and gradually increase to faster speeds. 1.5 A mental representation or idea. 幻象，形象 I had a sudden image of Sal bringing me breakfast in bed Example sentencesExamples I suddenly get a mental image of him pulling out of a Arizona truck stop and burning away down the open highway blasting vintage gay house. She immediately stopped smoking; the image of those nasty lungs was burned into her brain forever. The brain requires practice at forming those mental images in order to absorb increasingly complex or abstract ideas in later life. Any image or idea we have of God is certainly inadequate, probably inaccurate, and possibly misleading. It was enough to allow him a mental image of what he expected to see. The poem has been quite cathartic because I have had all those ideas for the images in my head for years. More than any other, there is deconstructionism, according to which the images and ideas that constitute culture are deconstructed. This brings to mind some disturbing mental images. A couple minutes later the lights returned and images appeared in her head. Capital and labour flow at different rates in different directions, as do images and ideas. His mental image is not a representation of a tree. Synonyms conception, impression, idea, concept, perception, notion mental picture, mental representation, conceptualization, vision, fancy, thought 1.6in singular A person or thing that closely resembles another. 极其相像的人（或物），翻版 he's the image of his father 他与其父极其相像。 Synonyms double, living image, replica, lookalike, clone, copy, reproduction, twin, duplicate, exact likeness, facsimile, counterpart, mirror image German Doppelgänger informal very spit, dead spit, spitting image, chip off the old block, ringer, dead ringer archaic similitude 1.7in singular Semblance or likeness. 相似，貌似物 made in the image of God 以上帝的形象创造。 Example sentencesExamples Unfortunately, following the old adage that mothers raise their sons in the image of the men they wish they had married, our mums refuse to give up on us. His is the pure logic of fiction, shaping a world in the image of the art that depicts it. They then try to recreate themselves in the image of their role models. We are reconfiguring the past in the image of our times. Part of the uniqueness of humanity, beings created in the image of God, is our instinct to seek and to enjoy the pleasures of seeking. Christians and Jews are able to claim that our dignity rests upon being created in imagio dei, in the image of God. Our rights do, in fact, come from the fact that we are created in the image of our creator. Songs built in the image of the seven-inch pop song, their length still dictated by the old format, continue to be at the centre of the pop world. We can indeed see this suggested in the biblical statement about human beings made in the image of God. Remarkably, after a few meetings with Griffith, she became a Nationalist in the image of Griffith. They want to spoil the divine likeness of man made in the image of God. We've been negligent in our examination of what it means to be re-created in the image of Christ. As a manager, a team is very much in the image of yourself. For some it was a matter of pride, one small country helping to create a world empire in the image of Rome. They say that this has not just begun to happen: actually it was the dead who built the upper Eusapia, in the image of their city. The gilded silver pinhead, styled in the image of a bird of prey, is one of a handful of examples discovered in Britain and will go on display in London. We're made in the image of the Maker and itch to find some way to create. In the 1980s the two institutions launched a crusade to remake the world in the image of the free market. To be in the image of God is to bear the stamp or outline of God. The huge influx of cash at the turn of the millennium led to the whole Web being built in the image of the Bay area. Synonyms semblance, guise, appearance, outward form, form, shape, aspect, character, mien 1.8 (in biblical use) an idol. 〈圣经〉偶像 Example sentencesExamples I also don't know of any religion that has no idol or image of its God. They are the enemy, and it is the nature of the enemy to show you false images and idols. While the church saw the importance of art as a method of instruction, it also faced a biblical injunction against images. Until recently, sandblasting was the method used to clean various stone idols, images, and pillars. Antique finish, white metal and black metal idols (mostly images of deities) too have been exhibited. Mystics throughout the ages have understood how the holy fire burns away the superficial images and idols we erect. They are implored to destroy the carved images and idols of the inhabitants, and to possess and settle the land given to the Jews by God. If an image is automatically an idol, why did God tell Israel to have graven images of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant? Synonyms idol, icon, fetish, false god, golden calf, totem, talisman 2The general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public. （人、组织、产品呈现的）形象 she strives to project an image of youth 她力争呈现一种青春的形象。 Example sentencesExamples If the players think they are enhancing the image of the game by binge drinking, or worse, then the game will always tetter on the edge of disaster. It said it ‘tarnished the image of the university’ and was ‘devastated’ by the claims. Coupled with a desire for change in the image of the police is one for improved relations with the public. Using a limited amount of space, an artist creates a visual to convey the music inside, which not only has to sell the album but the image of the band as well. There have been attempts to present a more open image to the public. The leaders of the opposition used the October 24 general strike as a platform to improve their public image. The market tends to be suspicious of sudden attempts to change the nature of the product or the image of the organisation. Within the past five years, a revolution in the image of dieting has taken place. He's already starting out with the image of being a liberal from Massachusetts, and all of that type of baggage. The image of an injury-ravaged bunch bravely battling against cruel fate is not a bad one to project if you want to dampen expectations about your chances. In India the term is used for the younger generation of people who present a hip image. This year the Tidy Towns Committee would like to see a greater effort being made amongst the local community to enchant the image of the town. These commercials often incorporate the image of pop and movie stars to give their houses the proper sense of glamour and affluence. But local politicians believe the arrival of the travellers tainted the image of the medieval attraction. The entry points to the open space will be well defined with landscape elements and will be treated in such a manner as to present an image of public space. I smiled a lot and presented an image to the public that all was fine. It is totally up to the prosecutors themselves to ease such public doubt and present a transformed image of the prosecution. But this festival in Marrakech is as important for the image of Morocco as it is for the careers of the stars. Similar results were found for the image of the agriculture and food industry as a whole. They each projected a public image that wasn't purely fiction, but there was a heavily invented element to it. Synonyms public perception, public conception, public impression, persona, profile, face, identity, front, facade, mask, guise, role, part portrayal, depiction 3A simile or metaphor. 比喻，明喻，暗喻 he uses the image of a hole to describe emotional emptiness 他用“空洞”这一比喻来描述情感空虚。 Example sentencesExamples I asked him how these Christian images arose in what was, after all, secular writing for a general audience. In Hosea, the sexual images are equally clear and far less strident. In the West we know her as a poet of witty conceits and memorable images. This identity, in a culture of affluence, is no better declared than through the biblical image of the steward. White Teeth uses as its central metaphor the image of a white soldier fighting black men in the jungle. Numerous New Testament images echo the belonging and counting of everyone. Evidently, only the images and metaphors of fiction could do justice to the welter of searing impressions. When Jesus describes himself as shepherd-esque, he echoes the images of Ezekiel 34. In this way he used the image of ghetto as a metaphor for Jewish social and moral conditions. I listened for recurring images, words, metaphors, and contradictions in the narrative. In other words, for all the images and metaphors music often presents us with, an album cover is its tangible embodiment. From the body of work represented by the book as a whole, the figure of a small boy emerges as an image of the struggle to speak. Woolf evidently responded to the gypsy figure as an image for desire between women. In line two Valery repeats sounds that echo those of previous stanzas and words that recall earlier images. Metaphorical images are so effective due to the social and natural contexts in which we acquire or learn their meanings. And of course, garden images in the parables struck a chord with an ancient community so dependent on the harvest to survive. The words pour forth like lava, steadily and ominously, packed with gritty images and metaphors. The poem opens hyperbolically with an image of an innocent young nymph who spends her days reclining in the grass. To use another biblical image, God did not choose to wash the earth clean in a flood again. So also, in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity is the image of the Mother and Child. Synonyms simile, metaphor, metonymy figure of speech, trope, figurative expression, turn of phrase, rhetorical device, conceit word painting, word picture verb ˈɪmɪdʒˈɪmɪdʒ [with object] 1Make a representation of the external form of. 作…的像，描绘…的形象 artworks which imaged women's bodies 描绘女性躯体形象的艺术品。 Example sentencesExamples We question the motivations of those who make the images, while the real people imaged in these photographs die unacknowledged. The female body imaged in the film is not abstract, generalised or idealised. If the picture burns, it is not Charles VII as imaged that burns but simply the material object that serves as an analagon for the manifestation of the imagined object. He might have pointed out, for example, that one reason why Yahweh is not to be imaged is that the only depiction of Him is provided by human beings. 1.1 Make a visual representation of (something) by scanning it with a detector or electromagnetic beam. （以探测器或电磁束）扫描出…的直观图 Example sentencesExamples The removal of the diffraction pattern is a major advantage when trying to image faint sources near a bright star. E-mail and medical imaging applications represent good examples for the data aging profile described here. No exoplanets have been imaged directly, so astronomers are working out their sizes and dynamics by their effect on their parent stars. The acoustic imaging sensors help detect mines and other potentially hazardous objects. One objective of the early sky scan was to image the morning clouds with the PanCam. Working from a light airplane, where imaging altitudes are higher, requires a larger detector. CAT scans and MRI scans are imaging studies which are often obtained to check for distant spread of the tumor. Many different electronic and imaged documents might exist for a single customer: invoices, bills of shipping, activity reports, data mining graphs. A greater volume of the body can be imaged in a shorter time, allowing evaluation of the vasculature from the aortic arch to the circle of Willis. In some cases, the blood vessels of the heart, brain, lungs and legs can be imaged without invasive procedures. He will engage in meditation while having his brain scanned by state-of-the-art brain imaging devices. Internal textures were imaged using backscattered electrons and cathodoluminescence. This printer really changed my outlook on what is possible with digital imaging these days. After all, your doctor is making decisions about your treatment based on imaging hardware today. Satellite sensors imaged the resulting pattern of crests and troughs into the series of tsunami waves that devastated coastal areas throughout parts of the Indian Ocean. The orbiting infrared telescope imaged a new generation of stars in various stages of evolution, several dozen of which now gleam like gems at the heads of huge dust pillars created by the galactic weather conditions. This shaped beam profile is imaged through the telescope system onto the back focal plane of the microscope objective. The NASA-led Swift mission has detected and imaged its first gamma-ray burst, likely the birth cry of a brand new black hole. The scientific payload includes stereo imaging equipment, a laser altimeter, a magnetometers, and an X-ray Spectrometer. In many cases, a fetus will be imaged multiple times. 1.2Computing Make an exact copy of (a computer's hard disk) the hard disk drive should be imaged using a specialized bitstream backup product Example sentencesExamples The advanced technology in leading-edge imaging products is not how they create a partition, but rather, how they image the disk. That's an extremely significant difference when you need to image a large disk and do not want multiple disks per volume. They can even image your computers at night, to avoid inevitable discussions by the water cooler. A multicast image can configure multiple systems simultaneously; conversely, you also can image multiple servers or workstations. Being unable to image those files means that the product cannot work in the Windows environment. 1.3 Form a mental picture or idea of. 幻想，想像 it is possible for us to image a society in which no one committed crime 我们有可能幻想出一个无人犯罪的社会。 Example sentencesExamples The brioche bread used 6 eggs and 300 gm of butter so you can image the rich yellow colour it turned out. For imagination is the tool that allows us to image a future radically different from the past or even the present. It would be difficult to image many of the young clubbers there settling into two nights of the Eurovision. For these people one can image how this experience could quickly become the true pillar of their faith. I would image he's been under difficult conditions over the last 8 months. Try to image a child with painful wounds similar to burns covering most of his or her body. I can only image the delight with which Nixon would have cheered on this approach. Still, one can only image what the transfer would have looked like without the company's loving attention to detail. Presumably this is the lexicographic inspiration for the Star Trek species the Ferengi, though the person who imaged the Ferengi language here was certainly not patterning it on French, ancient or modern. I just can't image what would have taken them all away at once with no word. One can only image what they do to referees. In fact, when I was in prison I taught a class on how to stop smoking and we had people imaging themselves smoke free, you know. After all, can you image Todd and Tom on the same side of anything culinary? In short, you can definitely image Peter the Great living there in the summer. Many people image that the era of the Open Range in the American West was the era of the small rancher. One can only image the scene in the World Trade Center following the plane crashes. I would sometimes image what it would be like to go fishing with my father, or be cooking dinner with my mother. The consortium has been drowned by this tide of excess wage costs and it is hard to image anything it could have structurally altered to change this. Synonyms envisage, envision, imagine, conceive of, picture, dream up, see in one's mind's eye Derivatives imageable adjective imageless adjective ˈɪmɪdʒləsˈɪmɪdʒləs The girl looked around at the cave, noticing the imageless walls. Example sentencesExamples The notion of a single cybernetic organism is rejected in favor of a body-without-organs, ‘an imageless, organless body [which is] perpetually reinserted into the process of production’. The viewer spends an inordinate amount of time staring at a black, imageless screen, being occasionally jarred by the sound of the piano. Somewhere in the centre is ‘the still point of the turning world’, to use Eliot's imageless image. Listening to radio via television is a curious experience as you stare blankly at an imageless blue screen while your ears do all the work. Origin Middle English: from Old French, from Latin imago; related to imitate. The word image goes back to Latin imago ‘imitation, likeness, idea’, also behind imitation (Late Middle English). Imagine (Middle English) is closely related, coming from a combination of Latin imaginare ‘form an image of, represent’ and imaginari ‘picture to oneself ’. Rhymes scrimmage Definition of image in US English: image nounˈimijˈɪmɪdʒ 1A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art. 形象（画像、塑像等） Example sentencesExamples There were sketches and paintings and collages and images of the tsunami disaster. Like the sculpture, the images represent a very naive viewpoint in the art world. I had to hack off some heads, turn the images into formal, sculpturesque forms, which was not my intent. The motifs and figures represented include polychrome images of bison, masks, and quadrilateral signs of unknown meaning. One window - in stained glass - is a representational image of the moorland around the Brontë shrine. The images are sculpted in bronze and achieve a rich antique green petina colour. Kathleen, a silversmith, has used silver and other metals to create everything from vases to 2D images and sculpture. He covered people with gold and silver foil, posing as images in heroic sculptures. Abstract paintings abandon images of the external world, speaking instead directly to people's internal thought processes. The ‘Groundview’ series of paintings uses different images to represent the ground as space. To those who know his work, he is a genius - a sculptor who creates life-like images of outback symbols. He recalls being awestruck by these images, especially the paintings of St. Mary and St. George. This is an episode from the Mahabharatha and is based on a ritual in which Bhima kills Duryodhana represented as an image in clay. Painting images from the head instead of sitting down and sketching what's in front of me seems certainly to lend weight to the argument. The images seem minimalist, using few lines to represent detailed images and also exclude deep shading. Everyone sees different things in the paintings, interpreting images according to their experience. Viewed from a contemporary design vantage point, the images represent an interesting study in contrasts. Her images represent the transformations of the country and its people. The images represent the spirits of people of African descent who died in the Middle Passage or later in the Americas. Around the walls women are painting images depicting the horror and suffering of the war. Synonyms likeness, resemblance 1.1 A visible impression obtained by a camera, telescope, microscope, or other device, or displayed on a computer or video screen. （相机、显微镜、荧屏等显现的）影像，图像 Example sentencesExamples A talented photographer, he is already busy capturing images to represent the important issues for his age group. This image came to represent the essence of love and romance for at least one generation, many years after it was photographed. The video camera then sends the image of the flower to the wallet-sized computer for complex processing. The camera then projects your image directly onto the screen and senses your movement. Secondly, it is a re-negotiation of the way space is represented in the photographic image. Increasing numbers of families have digital and video cameras to take images of their children. As search engines expand into images and video, they are increasingly at risk of becoming targets of copyright lawsuits. You see, the problem with a digital camera is getting the images from the camera to your computer. There's a control station with a colour video display showing the images from two cameras at any one time. There are also controls for loading images from camera or computer. As you push back the screen cover, the image on the display flips so what you are seeing is right side up. Creators of fake images usually ignore the known physical properties of creating an image with a camera. It also has an extra facility to make slide shows more dynamic, by allowing you to move images around the screen. The scope is then attached to a camera, allowing the doctor to see a clear image on a video screen. This complexity has lead to beautiful and amazing images obtained with modern telescopes. The real issue of sensitivity lies with the editors, producers and proprietors who decide how the images and words are presented to the public. You might want to use an image from your favorite screen saver in another program. The camera then relayed the images to a lap-top computer so firefighters knew exactly where to cut into the side of the chimney downstairs. There's software included to take video clips or still images with your camera and send them via email. The 170 images represent 70 local photographers short-listed in the Picture of the Year competition. Synonyms picture, facsimile, photograph, snapshot, photo 1.2 An optical appearance or counterpart produced by light or other radiation from an object reflected in a mirror or refracted through a lens. 镜像 Example sentencesExamples He had painted himself from his image reflected in a mirror, which reversed right and left. Some children are born with cataracts, which are a cloudiness of the eye's lenses that prevent images from being seen clearly or at all. Cracked mirrors reflected disturbing distorted images of the room. Refractive errors mean that the shape of the eye doesn't refract, or bend, light properly, so images appear blurred. Cheap mirrors reflect distorted amusement-park images of fighters who shadow-box before them. An otherwise empty room contains large mirrors which reflect visitors' images from different angles. Scallops have eyes that form images with reflective mirrors. As the steam in the bathroom began to vent, the mirror cleared and his image appeared before him. When the temperature difference is large enough, the warmer air refracts the light and amazing images can be seen. Water and glass are opaque, they refract, diffuse, obscure, and reflect images. For miles, as far as the eye could see, the surface of the big loch was like a mirror, reflecting images of mountains and wooded slopes. I was in for another surprise when I saw familiar images reflected in the mirror. These eyes use a single lens to focus images onto a light detector called a retina. Contact lenses can balance the image from both eyes, and correct any irregularities or astigmatism of the eye. Also, bear in mind that the fresnel lens both flips the image upside down and has a mirror effect on the text. The short effective focal length provides focused images at distances from lens contact to near infinity, even in air. He also studied spherical and parabolic mirrors, and understood how refraction by a lens will allow images to be focused and magnification to take place. Essentially one sees an image of the light sources reflected on the pupil. When the images are caught by reflection in a graceful wall mirror, they are once more displaced and desubstantialized. When the eye creates an image the cornea and lens bend incoming light rays to focus them on the retina. Synonyms reflection, mirror image, likeness 1.3Mathematics A point or set formed by mapping from another point or set. 〔数〕像点；像 Example sentencesExamples Maybe one day it will be sufficient to think about the images involved in a mathematical idea or proof, and a computer will compute the underlying equations for us. Consider a triangle and its homothetic image in the Lemoine point of the triangle. But to determine the center of a spiral similarity one only needs one segment and its image. In his doctoral dissertation of 1934 he considered permutation groups whose elements are determined by the images of three points. 1.4Computing An exact copy of a computer's hard disk, made for backing up data or setting up new machines. 〔计算机〕硬盘备份 Example sentencesExamples RAID 1 (known as "mirroring") creates an identical image of data from one drive to a second drive or from multiple drives to a second set of multiple drives. Next, an image of the drive can be created using tools such as Norton Ghost or Power Quest Drive Image. As the drive was creating the image, I could hear it start at a low speed and gradually increase to faster speeds. Here, the program re-created a 490MB hard drive image in the foreground while we converted ten WAV files into MP3s in the background. For one thing, there will be two versions: the Internet download version, and the CD version (which we want to also be downloadable as a CD image). 1.5 A mental representation or idea. 幻象，形象 he had an image of Uncle Walter throwing his crutches away 他心中出现一幕沃尔特叔叔扔掉拐杖的幻象。 Example sentencesExamples Capital and labour flow at different rates in different directions, as do images and ideas. The poem has been quite cathartic because I have had all those ideas for the images in my head for years. Any image or idea we have of God is certainly inadequate, probably inaccurate, and possibly misleading. I suddenly get a mental image of him pulling out of a Arizona truck stop and burning away down the open highway blasting vintage gay house. It was enough to allow him a mental image of what he expected to see. His mental image is not a representation of a tree. The brain requires practice at forming those mental images in order to absorb increasingly complex or abstract ideas in later life. More than any other, there is deconstructionism, according to which the images and ideas that constitute culture are deconstructed. She immediately stopped smoking; the image of those nasty lungs was burned into her brain forever. This brings to mind some disturbing mental images. A couple minutes later the lights returned and images appeared in her head. Synonyms conception, impression, idea, concept, perception, notion 1.6in singular A person or thing that closely resembles another. 极其相像的人（或物），翻版 he's the image of his father 他与其父极其相像。 Synonyms double, living image, replica, lookalike, clone, copy, reproduction, twin, duplicate, exact likeness, facsimile, counterpart, mirror image 1.7in singular Semblance or likeness. 相似，貌似物 we are made in the image of God 以上帝的形象创造。 Example sentencesExamples Christians and Jews are able to claim that our dignity rests upon being created in imagio dei, in the image of God. We're made in the image of the Maker and itch to find some way to create. To be in the image of God is to bear the stamp or outline of God. The huge influx of cash at the turn of the millennium led to the whole Web being built in the image of the Bay area. His is the pure logic of fiction, shaping a world in the image of the art that depicts it. They want to spoil the divine likeness of man made in the image of God. As a manager, a team is very much in the image of yourself. In the 1980s the two institutions launched a crusade to remake the world in the image of the free market. Remarkably, after a few meetings with Griffith, she became a Nationalist in the image of Griffith. Part of the uniqueness of humanity, beings created in the image of God, is our instinct to seek and to enjoy the pleasures of seeking. They say that this has not just begun to happen: actually it was the dead who built the upper Eusapia, in the image of their city. The gilded silver pinhead, styled in the image of a bird of prey, is one of a handful of examples discovered in Britain and will go on display in London. We've been negligent in our examination of what it means to be re-created in the image of Christ. Our rights do, in fact, come from the fact that we are created in the image of our creator. We can indeed see this suggested in the biblical statement about human beings made in the image of God. Unfortunately, following the old adage that mothers raise their sons in the image of the men they wish they had married, our mums refuse to give up on us. For some it was a matter of pride, one small country helping to create a world empire in the image of Rome. They then try to recreate themselves in the image of their role models. Songs built in the image of the seven-inch pop song, their length still dictated by the old format, continue to be at the centre of the pop world. We are reconfiguring the past in the image of our times. Synonyms semblance, guise, appearance, outward form, form, shape, aspect, character, mien 1.8 (in biblical use) an idol. 〈圣经〉偶像 Example sentencesExamples I also don't know of any religion that has no idol or image of its God. Mystics throughout the ages have understood how the holy fire burns away the superficial images and idols we erect. They are the enemy, and it is the nature of the enemy to show you false images and idols. They are implored to destroy the carved images and idols of the inhabitants, and to possess and settle the land given to the Jews by God. While the church saw the importance of art as a method of instruction, it also faced a biblical injunction against images. Antique finish, white metal and black metal idols (mostly images of deities) too have been exhibited. Until recently, sandblasting was the method used to clean various stone idols, images, and pillars. If an image is automatically an idol, why did God tell Israel to have graven images of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant? Synonyms idol, icon, fetish, false god, golden calf, totem, talisman 2The general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public. （人、组织、产品呈现的）形象 she strives to project an image of youth 她力争呈现一种青春的形象。 Example sentencesExamples There have been attempts to present a more open image to the public. If the players think they are enhancing the image of the game by binge drinking, or worse, then the game will always tetter on the edge of disaster. But local politicians believe the arrival of the travellers tainted the image of the medieval attraction. These commercials often incorporate the image of pop and movie stars to give their houses the proper sense of glamour and affluence. They each projected a public image that wasn't purely fiction, but there was a heavily invented element to it. Similar results were found for the image of the agriculture and food industry as a whole. Coupled with a desire for change in the image of the police is one for improved relations with the public. I smiled a lot and presented an image to the public that all was fine. Using a limited amount of space, an artist creates a visual to convey the music inside, which not only has to sell the album but the image of the band as well. It said it ‘tarnished the image of the university’ and was ‘devastated’ by the claims. This year the Tidy Towns Committee would like to see a greater effort being made amongst the local community to enchant the image of the town. But this festival in Marrakech is as important for the image of Morocco as it is for the careers of the stars. The leaders of the opposition used the October 24 general strike as a platform to improve their public image. The image of an injury-ravaged bunch bravely battling against cruel fate is not a bad one to project if you want to dampen expectations about your chances. He's already starting out with the image of being a liberal from Massachusetts, and all of that type of baggage. In India the term is used for the younger generation of people who present a hip image. The market tends to be suspicious of sudden attempts to change the nature of the product or the image of the organisation. The entry points to the open space will be well defined with landscape elements and will be treated in such a manner as to present an image of public space. It is totally up to the prosecutors themselves to ease such public doubt and present a transformed image of the prosecution. Within the past five years, a revolution in the image of dieting has taken place. Synonyms public perception, public conception, public impression, persona, profile, face, identity, front, facade, mask, guise, role, part 3A simile or metaphor. 比喻，明喻，暗喻 he uses the image of a hole to describe emotional emptiness 他用“空洞”这一比喻来描述情感空虚。 Example sentencesExamples In Hosea, the sexual images are equally clear and far less strident. This identity, in a culture of affluence, is no better declared than through the biblical image of the steward. Evidently, only the images and metaphors of fiction could do justice to the welter of searing impressions. White Teeth uses as its central metaphor the image of a white soldier fighting black men in the jungle. In this way he used the image of ghetto as a metaphor for Jewish social and moral conditions. Numerous New Testament images echo the belonging and counting of everyone. The poem opens hyperbolically with an image of an innocent young nymph who spends her days reclining in the grass. To use another biblical image, God did not choose to wash the earth clean in a flood again. So also, in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity is the image of the Mother and Child. Woolf evidently responded to the gypsy figure as an image for desire between women. And of course, garden images in the parables struck a chord with an ancient community so dependent on the harvest to survive. When Jesus describes himself as shepherd-esque, he echoes the images of Ezekiel 34. In line two Valery repeats sounds that echo those of previous stanzas and words that recall earlier images. From the body of work represented by the book as a whole, the figure of a small boy emerges as an image of the struggle to speak. In the West we know her as a poet of witty conceits and memorable images. The words pour forth like lava, steadily and ominously, packed with gritty images and metaphors. I asked him how these Christian images arose in what was, after all, secular writing for a general audience. In other words, for all the images and metaphors music often presents us with, an album cover is its tangible embodiment. Metaphorical images are so effective due to the social and natural contexts in which we acquire or learn their meanings. I listened for recurring images, words, metaphors, and contradictions in the narrative. Synonyms simile, metaphor, metonymy verbˈimijˈɪmɪdʒ [with object] 1Make a representation of the external form of. 作…的像，描绘…的形象 artworks that imaged women's bodies 描绘女性躯体形象的艺术品。 Example sentencesExamples We question the motivations of those who make the images, while the real people imaged in these photographs die unacknowledged. He might have pointed out, for example, that one reason why Yahweh is not to be imaged is that the only depiction of Him is provided by human beings. If the picture burns, it is not Charles VII as imaged that burns but simply the material object that serves as an analagon for the manifestation of the imagined object. The female body imaged in the film is not abstract, generalised or idealised. 1.1 Make a visual representation of (something) by scanning it with a detector or electromagnetic beam. （以探测器或电磁束）扫描出…的直观图 every point on the Earth's surface was imaged by the satellite Example sentencesExamples E-mail and medical imaging applications represent good examples for the data aging profile described here. In many cases, a fetus will be imaged multiple times. The NASA-led Swift mission has detected and imaged its first gamma-ray burst, likely the birth cry of a brand new black hole. The removal of the diffraction pattern is a major advantage when trying to image faint sources near a bright star. The scientific payload includes stereo imaging equipment, a laser altimeter, a magnetometers, and an X-ray Spectrometer. The orbiting infrared telescope imaged a new generation of stars in various stages of evolution, several dozen of which now gleam like gems at the heads of huge dust pillars created by the galactic weather conditions. In some cases, the blood vessels of the heart, brain, lungs and legs can be imaged without invasive procedures. Working from a light airplane, where imaging altitudes are higher, requires a larger detector. This shaped beam profile is imaged through the telescope system onto the back focal plane of the microscope objective. CAT scans and MRI scans are imaging studies which are often obtained to check for distant spread of the tumor. Internal textures were imaged using backscattered electrons and cathodoluminescence. This printer really changed my outlook on what is possible with digital imaging these days. No exoplanets have been imaged directly, so astronomers are working out their sizes and dynamics by their effect on their parent stars. He will engage in meditation while having his brain scanned by state-of-the-art brain imaging devices. Many different electronic and imaged documents might exist for a single customer: invoices, bills of shipping, activity reports, data mining graphs. Satellite sensors imaged the resulting pattern of crests and troughs into the series of tsunami waves that devastated coastal areas throughout parts of the Indian Ocean. A greater volume of the body can be imaged in a shorter time, allowing evaluation of the vasculature from the aortic arch to the circle of Willis. After all, your doctor is making decisions about your treatment based on imaging hardware today. One objective of the early sky scan was to image the morning clouds with the PanCam. The acoustic imaging sensors help detect mines and other potentially hazardous objects. 1.2Computing Make an exact copy of (a computer's hard disk) the hard disk drive should be imaged using a specialized bitstream backup product Example sentencesExamples That's an extremely significant difference when you need to image a large disk and do not want multiple disks per volume. The advanced technology in leading-edge imaging products is not how they create a partition, but rather, how they image the disk. A multicast image can configure multiple systems simultaneously; conversely, you also can image multiple servers or workstations. They can even image your computers at night, to avoid inevitable discussions by the water cooler. Being unable to image those files means that the product cannot work in the Windows environment. 1.3 Form a mental picture or idea of. 幻想，想像 it is possible for us to image a society in which no one committed crime 我们有可能幻想出一个无人犯罪的社会。 Example sentencesExamples After all, can you image Todd and Tom on the same side of anything culinary? Many people image that the era of the Open Range in the American West was the era of the small rancher. One can only image what they do to referees. I would image he's been under difficult conditions over the last 8 months. It would be difficult to image many of the young clubbers there settling into two nights of the Eurovision. The brioche bread used 6 eggs and 300 gm of butter so you can image the rich yellow colour it turned out. One can only image the scene in the World Trade Center following the plane crashes. For imagination is the tool that allows us to image a future radically different from the past or even the present. In short, you can definitely image Peter the Great living there in the summer. I can only image the delight with which Nixon would have cheered on this approach. For these people one can image how this experience could quickly become the true pillar of their faith. In fact, when I was in prison I taught a class on how to stop smoking and we had people imaging themselves smoke free, you know. Try to image a child with painful wounds similar to burns covering most of his or her body. Presumably this is the lexicographic inspiration for the Star Trek species the Ferengi, though the person who imaged the Ferengi language here was certainly not patterning it on French, ancient or modern. The consortium has been drowned by this tide of excess wage costs and it is hard to image anything it could have structurally altered to change this. I would sometimes image what it would be like to go fishing with my father, or be cooking dinner with my mother. Still, one can only image what the transfer would have looked like without the company's loving attention to detail. I just can't image what would have taken them all away at once with no word. Synonyms envisage, envision, imagine, conceive of, picture, dream up, see in one's mind's eye Origin Middle English: from Old French, from Latin imago; related to imitate.
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