image
[noun]
Synonyms:
- representation, effigy, figure, icon, idol, likeness, picture, portrait, statue
- replica, counterpart, (dead) ringer (slang), Doppelgänger, double, facsimile, spitting image (informal)
- concept, idea, impression, mental picture, perception

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Related Idioms: chip off the old block, dead ringer, speaking likeness, spit and image
Related Words: counterpart, equal, equivalent, match

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English Thesaurus: appearance, looks, image, aspect, picture, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

im‧age S2 W1 AC /ˈɪmɪdʒ/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: imagene, from Latin imago]

1. PUBLIC OPINION the opinion people have of a person, organization, product etc, or the way a person, organization etc seems to be to the public ⇒ reputation
image of
attempts to improve the image of the police

2. IDEA IN MIND a picture that you have in your mind, especially about what someone or something is like or the way they look
image of
He had no visual image of her, only her name.
He had the clearest image in his mind of his mother and father.

3. PICTURE/WHAT YOU SEE
a) a picture of an object in a mirror or in the lens of a camera:
She peered closely at her image in the mirror.
b) a picture on the screen of a television, cinema, or computer:
Jill Sharpe was little more than a name, a glossy image on a television screen.
c) a picture or shape of a person or thing that is copied onto paper or is cut in wood or stone:
carved images

4. DESCRIPTION a word, phrase, or picture that describes an idea in a poem, book, film etc:
He paints a very romantic image of working-class communities.

5. be the (very/living/spitting) image of somebody to look exactly like someone or something else:
He’s the spitting image of his mother.

6. in the image of somebody/something literary in the same form or shape as someone or something else:
According to the Bible, man was made in the image of God.
⇒ mirror image

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

image
noun
I. impression of sb/sth given to the public
ADJ. positive | negative | upmarket | downmarket | tarnished The party needs to clean up its somewhat tarnished image.
clean-cut, girl-next-door, wholesome She was aiming for a wholesome, girl-next-door image.
macho | hackneyed the hackneyed image of the poor student
media, public, screen In real life she looks nothing like her screen image.
brand, corporate Champagne houses owe their success to brand image.
VERB + IMAGE create The company needs to create a new image for itself.
present, project, promote a book which presents positive images of older people
aim for, go for | change | clean up, enhance, improve, polish, revive an effort to improve the organization's public image
keep up, live up to The group has failed to live up to its macho image.
discard, shed The industry is trying to shed its negative image.
tarnish

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

image
II. mental picture of sb/sth
ADJ. powerful, vivid | sudden She had a sudden mental image of herself in a wedding dress.
positive | negative | distorted the distorted images in his dreams
popular | stereotyped/stereotypical | mental | literary, poetic | dream
VERB + IMAGE have | conjure up, summon up Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless cottage cheese salads. the ability to summon up images in the mind
build up I like to build up images of the characters and setting before I start to write.
use | reinforce Treating disabled people like children only reinforces negative images of disability.
PREP. ~ from images from his past

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

image
III. copy
ADJ. living, spitting He's the spitting image of his father!
mirror Charity was a mirror image of her twin. (figurative) The return journey was almost a mirror image of the outward one (= the same things happened in the reverse order).

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

image
IV. picture
ADJ. disturbing, poignant, powerful, striking powerful and disturbing images of the war
visual The visual image is steadily replacing the written word.
flickering, moving flickering images on a screen
still the use of still and moving video images
colour | black-and-white, monochrome | photographic, video | screen Each illustration is displayed as a complete screen image.
digital | graven (literary) It was forbidden to worship graven (= carved) images.
religious | pornographic
VERB + IMAGE produce the images produced on laser printers
capture, scan She longed to capture the image on film.
edit | display, show the pixel information used to display a digital image
store You can store these images in a separate computer file.
juxtapose The display juxtaposed images from serious and popular art.
IMAGE + VERB show sth heat images that show where most of the activity in the brain is
IMAGE + NOUN capture, processing | database
 ⇒ Special page at COMPUTER

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

image

a good/positive image
We want to give people a positive image of the town.
a bad/negative image
It’s difficult to explain why the industry has such a bad image.
Many negative images of women are found in the media.
a wholesome/clean-cut image (=morally good and never doing anything bad)
The recent scandal has damaged his clean-cut image.
an upmarket image British English, an upscale image American English (=expensive and good quality)
The company is trying to promote an upmarket image.
a downmarket image British English, a downscale image American English (=cheap and not good quality)
The store has struggled to break away from its downmarket image.
the traditional image of something
They want to improve the traditional image of English food.
the popular image of something
The popular image of the spy as a glamorous figure of mystery is far from the reality.
sb’s/sth’s public image (=the image that many people have of someone or something)
Her public image does not reflect the way she behaves in private.
sb’s screen image (=how someone seems in films or on TV)
He had cultivated a screen image as a ruthless tough guy.
a macho image (=sb’s image as a man who is strong and tough)
He was keen to project a macho image in this film.
have an image
The product has a rather downmarket image.
create an image
The company is trying to create an image of quality and reliability.
improve your image
The casino industry was keen to improve its image.
damage your image
Has this scandal damaged the company’s image?
live up to your image (=be like the image you have presented of yourself)
He has certainly lived up to his wild rock-star image.
present/project/promote an image (=behave in a way that creates a particular image)
He presented an image of himself as an energetic young leader.
cultivate an image (=try to encourage or develop an image)
He was trying to cultivate an image of himself as an intellectual.
tarnish an image (=damage it slightly)
His behaviour has tarnished the image of the sport.
clean up your image (=improve your image after it has been damaged)
The pop star promised to clean up his image after he was released from prison.
lose/shed an image (=get rid of it)
The party struggled to lose its image of being somewhat old-fashioned.
an image problem
Politicians have an image problem as far as many young people are concerned.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

appearance the way someone or something looks to other people:
She’d had plastic surgery to change her appearance.
The mushrooms are similar in appearance to poisonous ones, so you have to be careful.
looks someone’s appearance, especially when considering how good-looking they are. Looks is more informal than appearance:
Girls of that age are always worried about their looks.
People generally describe him as having boyish good looks.
image the appearance and character that a person, organization, product etc deliberately tries to produce:
She wowed fans with her sleek new image.
The scandal has damaged her image as an honest politician.
The car has a racy new image.
aspect literary the appearance of someone or something:
The costume gives his character an even more sinister aspect.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

picture shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, especially as a piece of art, and often showing what someone or something looks like:
a picture of a horse
He painted the picture in 1890, just before he died.
drawing a picture drawn with a pencil, pen etc:
We had to do a drawing of a sunflower.
sketch a picture that is drawn quickly:
I made a quick sketch of the kind of room we wanted.
painting a picture made using paint:
The painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art.
Picasso did several paintings of her.
portrait a picture of a person:
The portrait was painted by Rembrandt.
landscape a picture of a place, especially in the countryside or the mountains:
Constable painted mainly landscapes.
cartoon a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke:
A cartoon in the New York Times showed the President talking to Osama Bin Laden.
comic strip a series of pictures drawn inside boxes that tell a story:
Charles Schultz was famous for his cartoon strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
caricature a funny drawing of someone that makes a part of someone’s face or body look bigger, worse etc than it really is, especially in a funny way:
He is famous for his caricatures of politicans.
illustration a picture in a book:
The book has over 100 pages of illustrations, most of them in colour.
poster a large picture printed on paper that you stick to a wall as decoration:
old movie posters
There were lots of posters of pop bands on her bedroom wall.
print a picture that is usually produced on a printing press, and is one of a series of copies of the same picture:
a limited edition of lithographic prints by John Lennon
image a picture – used especially when talking about what the picture is like, or the effect it has on you:
He produced some memorable images.
a beautiful image
Some of the images are deeply disturbing.
artwork pictures or photographs, especially ones that have been produced to be used in a book or magazine:
We are still waiting for the artwork to come back from the printers.
imagine to form a picture or idea in your mind about what something might be like:
When I think of Honolulu, I imagine long white beaches and palm trees.
I can’t really imagine being a millionaire.
visualize to form a picture of someone or something in your mind, especially something that is definitely going to happen or exist in the future:
Anna visualized meeting Greg again at the airport.
The finished house may be hard to visualize.
envisage /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/ especially British English, envision to imagine something as possible or likely to happen in the future:
How do you envisage your career developing over the next ten years?
They had envisioned the creation of a single armed force, small but efficient.
conceive of something formal to imagine a situation, especially one that is difficult to imagine:
For many people, music is so important that they cannot conceive of life without it.
fantasize to imagine something exciting that you would like to happen, but that is very unlikely to happen:
I used to fantasize about becoming a film star.
daydream to imagine pleasant things, so that you forget where you are and what you should be doing:
Mark began to daydream, and didn’t even hear the teacher’s question.
hallucinate to imagine that you are seeing things that are not really there, especially because you are ill or have taken drugs:
The drug that can cause some people to hallucinate.
When I saw the walls moving, I thought I must be hallucinating.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

reputation noun [countable] the opinion that people have about a person, organization etc because of what has happened in the past:
She was a good lawyer with a reputation for honesty and diligence.
The school had an excellent reputation.
The lawsuit has damaged the company’s reputation.
image noun [countable] the idea that people have about what something is like, especially when this is created through newspaper stories, advertising etc:
A PR campaign was launched in an effort to improve the company’s image.
Boxing has rather a negative image.
The princess tried to project an image of herself as serious and hard-working (=she tried to give people the idea that she was serious and hard-working).
name noun [singular] the reputation that a person, organization etc has – used especially in the following phrases:
The company is anxious to protect its good name.
Cyclists who ignore traffic rules give other cyclists a bad name.
Electrolux has a name for making top quality vacuum cleaners.
He went to court in order to try to clear his name (=prove that he is innocent).
standing noun [uncountable] someone’s reputation and position compared to other people in a group or society, based on other peoples’ opinion of them:
The class system in Great Britain encourages people to be very aware of their social standing.
He needs to improve his standing among female voters.
Jacques Tati was a man of international standing in the world of screen comedy.
prestige noun [uncountable] the good reputation that a company, organization, group etc has, which makes people respect and admire them:
the prestige of a carmaker such as Rolls-Royce
Does Stanford University carry the same prestige as Harvard orYale?
Hosting the Olympic Games would enhance our country’s international prestige.
The teaching profession has lost the prestige it had in the past.
stature noun [uncountable] formal the importance and respect that a person or organization has, because of their achievements or their influence:
As he got older, Picasso’s stature as an artist increased.
Their work is equal in stature.
an actor of international stature
The party’s stature has increased in recent years.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

image
ˈɪmɪdʒ
See: spitting image or spit and image

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲