image

1. image (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.

Example: The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

2. image (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.: A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.

3. image (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A mental picture of something not real or not present.

Example: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

4. image (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.

Example: […] his behaviour was, as I had imaged to myself, solemnly devout.

5. image (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To reflect, mirror.

Example: See’st thou yon river, whose translucent wave,
Forth issuing from the darkness, windeth through
The argent streets o’ th’ City, imaging
The soft inversion of her tremulous Domes,

6. image (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To create an image of.

Example: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.