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['imidʒ]
o hình ảnh
Biểu thị bằng hình vẽ những số liệu thu được bằng hệ thống viễn thám.
§ image well : giếng ảnh
Giếng mô phỏng dùng như biên trong mô hình hoá vỉa chứa.
Xem thêm: mental image, picture, icon, ikon, persona, prototype, paradigm, epitome, trope, figure of speech, figure, double, look-alike, effigy, simulacrum, visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture
image noun
1 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
2 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
3 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).
4 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
n.
her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
they showed us the pictures of their wedding
a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them
a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty
he is the prototype of good breeding
he provided America with an image of the good father
he could be Gingrich's double
she's the very image of her mother
although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry
the company tried to project an altruistic image
the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln
the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone