image
♦♦ im|age /'ɪmɪdʒ/ (images)
1 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
If you have an image of something or someone, you have a picture or idea of them in your mind.
The image of art theft as a gentleman's crime is outdated...
2 [N-COUNT] oft with poss
The image of a person, group, or organization is the way that they appear to other people.
The tobacco industry has been trying to improve its image.
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An image is a picture of someone or something. (FORMAL)
...photographic images of young children...
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An image is a poetic description of something. (FORMAL)
The natural images in the poem are meant to be suggestive of realities beyond themselves.
5 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you are the image of someone else, you look very much like them.
Marianne's son was the image of his father.
6
spitting image: see spit
see also mirror imagebrand im|age (brand images)
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The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising. (BUSINESS)
Few products have brand images anywhere near as strong as Levi's.mir|ror im|age (mirror images)
also mirror-image
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If something is a mirror image of something else, it is like a reflection of it, either because it is exactly the same or because it is the same but reversed.
I saw in him a mirror image of my younger self...
1 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
If you have an image of something or someone, you have a picture or idea of them in your mind.
The image of art theft as a gentleman's crime is outdated...
2 [N-COUNT] oft with poss
The image of a person, group, or organization is the way that they appear to other people.
The tobacco industry has been trying to improve its image.
3 [N-COUNT]
An image is a picture of someone or something. (FORMAL)
...photographic images of young children...
4 [N-COUNT]
An image is a poetic description of something. (FORMAL)
The natural images in the poem are meant to be suggestive of realities beyond themselves.
5 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you are the image of someone else, you look very much like them.
Marianne's son was the image of his father.
6
spitting image: see spit
see also mirror imagebrand im|age (brand images)
[N-COUNT]
The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising. (BUSINESS)
Few products have brand images anywhere near as strong as Levi's.mir|ror im|age (mirror images)
also mirror-image
[N-COUNT] oft N of n
If something is a mirror image of something else, it is like a reflection of it, either because it is exactly the same or because it is the same but reversed.
I saw in him a mirror image of my younger self...