IMAGES
Noun
images
plural of image
Verb
images
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of image
Anagrams
• Giemsa, ageism, gamies
Source: Wiktionary
IMAGE
Im"age, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the root of
imitari to imitate. See Imitate, and cf. Imagine.]
1. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing,
or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to
the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a
picture; a semblance.
Even like a stony image, cold and numb. Shak.
Whose is this image and superscription Matt. xxii. 20.
This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Shak.
And God created man in his own image. Gen. i. 27.
2. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
Chaucer.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not
bow down thyself to them. Ex. xx. 4, 5.
3. Show; appearance; cast.
The face of things a frightful image bears. Dryden.
4. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the
fancy; a conception; an idea.
Can we conceive Image of aught delightful, soft, or great Prior.
5. (Rhet.)
Definition: A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible
objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended
metaphor. Brande & C.
6. (Opt.)
Definition: The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a
lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the
object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points
in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic
plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or
with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of
an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.
Electrical image. See under Electrical.
– Image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast.
– Image graver, Image maker, a sculptor.
– Image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry
distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves.
– Image Purkinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels
projected in, not merely on, that membrane.
– Virtual image (Optics), a point or system of points, on one side
of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of
rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens.
Clerk Maxwell.
Im"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Imaging.]
1. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the
shore; the mirror imaged her figure. "Shrines of imaged saints." J.
Warton.
2. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the
fancy or recollection; to imagine.
Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must
behold no more. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition