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How to sign: an iconic mental representation
"her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate";
Similiar / Same: mental image
Categories: internal representation, mental representation, representation
Within this category: auditory image, imagination image, memory image, mental picture, visual image
How to sign: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
"I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy";
Similiar / Same: visualize, envision, fancy, picture, visualise, figure, see, project
Categories: conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine
How to sign: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
"they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them";
Similiar / Same: picture, ikon, icon
Categories: representation
Within this category: bitmap, chiaroscuro, collage, foil, iconography, inset, likeness, panorama, photograph, reflection, scan, sonogram
How to sign: a standard or typical example
"he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father";
Similiar / Same: prototype, epitome, paradigm
Within this category: concentrate, imago
How to sign: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
"a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty";
Similiar / Same: persona
Categories: appearance, visual aspect
How to sign: a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
"the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone";
Similiar / Same: effigy, simulacrum
Categories: representation
