noun · verb · 26 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, weak vowel distinction
US:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
/ˈɪm.ədʒ/Australian, General American, weak vowel merger
New-Zealand:/ˈɘm.ɘdʒ/
India:/ɪ.meːdʒ/
rhymes with -ɪmɪdʒ
CMU ARPABET:IH1 M AH0 JH
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 2:IH1 M IH0 JH
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
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noun
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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3
noun
Meaning 3
A mental picture of something not real or not present.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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4
noun
Meaning 4
A statue or idol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Narrower terms: real image, virtual image
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verb
Meaning 12
To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215, This Representation of the Terrors which must have attended the Conflict of two such mighty Powers as Jupiter and Neptune, whereby the Elements had been mix’d in Confusion, and the whole Frame of Nature endangered, is imaged in these few Lines with a Nobleness suitable to the Occasion.
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verb
Meaning 13
To reflect, mirror.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 14
To create an image of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 15
To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: visualize, visualise
History
Etymology
From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.
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292 source translations are retained for this English entry.