Noun She studied her image in the mirror. The kids sat staring at the images on the TV screen. painters capturing images of war black-and-white images of the city His poem evokes images of the sea and warm summer days. He is trying hard to improve his image. The law suit has negatively affected the company's public image. a politician who cares more about image than about telling the truth Verb in the painting Sacagawea is imaged as an intrepid woman pointing the way for Lewis and Clark the brochure images a vacation at the resort in language that makes you want to make a reservation this instant See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Working across various media, in both public and private spaces, and between language and image, Holzer has demonstrated her fascination with the total, sensorial experience of contemporary life. Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2022 Removing the federal immunity will not be enough, however, because the cultural biases and economic incentives shielding nonconsensual image-sharing run deep. Danielle Keats Citron, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022 After initially showing interest, all three companies declined to work with Black Rifle, citing the company’s image. Megan Keller, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022 Death and destruction may litter the landscape, but Lee’s image collaborators remind us that there is beauty alongside the ashes. Casey Gerald, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022 Some of these can be made out in the lower right of Webb’s new image. Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022 That coalition building was sorely needed, because Puerto Rico and its residents have an unusual image problem in philanthropy, said Hispanic Federation President and CEO Frankie Miranda. Glenn Gamboa, ajc, 14 Sep. 2022 Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko’s congressional testimony on Tuesday was every bit as damaging for the company’s image as Elon Musk might have hoped. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2022 Kulakivska stayed behind to look for the three missing men, keeping a mental image of them coming home, walking through the front gate. Shira Pinson, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022
Verb
There is simply the capacity to image so much more than physicians are used to, and monitoring constantly may require leveraging recent advances in software. Edward Chen, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022 One of the design goals for the James Webb Space Telescope was to provide the ability to image at wavelengths that would reveal the Universe's first stars and galaxies. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022 From there, the team digitally combined raw frames into deeper, more polished exposures and then passed them on to image processors for color rendering.New York Times, 12 July 2022 This still image from video shows Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, N.J., at left, being escorted from the stage as people tend to author Salman Rushdie, center right, at the Chautauqua Institution, in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.CBS News, 13 Aug. 2022 Juno will image Io again from a distance during a flyby in December 2022, but is scheduled to get to within just 900 miles/1,500 km of Io in both December 2023 and February 2024. Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 June 2022 Toussaint is an optics expert whose lab at Brown University creates precision techniques to image and assess biological tissues. Usha Lee Mcfarling, STAT, 19 Aug. 2022 Ultrasound scanners, which image the inside of the human body, are a life-saving medical tool. Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 29 July 2022 To image different body systems, Zhao’s team tested versions of the probe that produce waves at different frequencies and thus penetrate the body to different depths. Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 29 July 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, "effigy, figure, mental impression of something observed, reflection, resemblance," borrowed from Anglo-French, shortened from imagene, borrowed from Latin imāgin-, imāgō "representation, reflection, apparition, semblance, copy, visible form," from imā- (probably the stem of an otherwise unattested verb *imārī with the same base as imitārī "to follow as a pattern, copy") + -gin-, -gō, denominal or deverbal noun suffix — more at imitate
Verb
Middle English imagen, in part derivative of imageimage entry 1, in part borrowed from Middle French ymagier "to imagine," derivative of image