Word Finder - image

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An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.

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The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

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A mental picture of something not real or not present.

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A statue or idol.

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A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)

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Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

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A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.

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Something mapped to by a function.

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The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.

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The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.

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A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.

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Show; appearance; cast.

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To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.

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To reflect, mirror.

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To create an image of.

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To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

They stood there for a moment, watching their image in the mirror.

A single image can end a war.

An image flashed, that of Damian chained to a wall.

The tiny specs indicating crafts or personnel in the 3D image moved and changed; the image itself spun slowly, as if to present her with all sides of the battle at once.

Dusty's eyes returned to the image of the country club.

Another image flashed, and Deidre gasped, covering her face with her hands in an effort to block it.

Sometimes a new word revived an image that some earlier experience had engraved on my brain.

She couldn't get the image of Darian and Claire out of her head.

An image not of her own creation pushed itself into her mind.

She wanted to deck her mirror image.

But at the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty.

The image of Taran's face flashed before her closed eyes, and with it a sense of frustration, fear, anger, and, most damning of all, desire.

The image of her smile and his memory of the way he felt when he was with her remained fixed in his mind.

I don't think an admission they were dealing with a psychic or someone with supernatural abilities would sit well with their suit and necktie image.

He recognized the building via a computer image Betsy provided.

Carmen glanced up at his image in the mirror.

Pierre repeated, and a mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind.

Combing it up into a pony tail, she bound it and eyed her image critically in the mirror.

Seeing her mirror image was a reminder that Deidre was created by a goddess with the sole intention of using and discarding the human she made.

The image of baby Rhyn and Kris.s words distracted her as she hurried through the hall back to the stairs.

She stood before her favorite, an image of A'Ran the way she remembered him from the day they'd first met.

She thought of the image she'd seen so long ago when she met A'Ran, the vision of them walking together on the dead planet.

A moment later, a thin figure entered the room.  The last of the shapeshifters created, this one was a mirror image of the mad scientist, Ully.

Kris let out a surprised laugh at the image in his mind of Rhyn being sent packing like a misbehaving puppy.

She pulled up the bodice as she observed her image in the bathroom mirror.

She focused hard on the image of Bianca and braced herself for Jonny's fiery touch.

If, for example, it is found that the image of the solar.

The counterspell took the form of a bronze image of the serpent-demon; see Frazer, Golden Bough, ii.

Beneath him was originally nothing but a huge void with muddy black water at the bottom, in which his image was reflected, becoming ultimately solidified into P'tahil, his son, who now partakes of the nature of matter.

Manda d'hayye and his image Hibil Ziva with his incarnations clearly correspond to the old Babylonian Marduk, Merodach, the "first-born" son of Ea, with his incarnations, the chief divinity of the city of Babylon, the mediator and redeemer in the old religion.

A slave, having detected her in the act of embracing it and supposing it to be a lover, informed her father, who ordered her to burn the image; whereupon she threw herself with it into the flames.

The brother and sister returned to Mycenae; Iphigeneia deposited the image in the deme of Brauron in Attica, where she remained as priestess of Artemis Brauronia.

Admitting the identification, we may perhaps conclude that the temple was repaired in order to provide a temporary home for the venerated image and other sacred objects; no traces of a restoration exist, but the walls probably remained standing after the Persian conflagration.

On both sides of the passage were numerous statues, among them that of Athena Hygeia, set up by Pericles to commemorate the recovery of a favourite slave who was injured during the building of the Parthenon, a colossal bronze image of the wooden horse of Troy, and Myron's group of Marsyas with Athena throwing away her flute.

The 15th-century font, the pulpit (1570), the organ (1617), and the early Gothic Lady chapel containing a much venerated 13th-century image of the Virgin, which was annually carried in procession through the town, are all noticeable.

A rotation of this amount should therefore be easily visible, but the limits of resolving power are being approached; and the conclusion is independent of the focal length of the mirror, and of the employment of a telescope, provided of course that the reflected image is seen in focus, and that the full width of the mirror is utilized.

In a plane containing the image point of one colour, another colour produces a disk of confusion; this is similar to the confusion caused by two " zones " in spherical aberration.

He regarded the orator and the poet as teachers, bound to complete themselves by education, and to exhibit to the world an image of perfected personality in prose and verse of studied beauty.

For if the image of the Standing One were not actualized in us, it would not survive the death of the body.

It was for her sake, he said, that the Greeks and Barbarians fought, deluding themselves with an image of truth, for the real being was then present with the First God.3 By such specious allegories and Grecian fables Simon deceived many, while at the same time he astounded them by his magic. A description is given of how he made a familiar spirit for himself by conjuring the soul out of a boy and keeping his image in his bedroom, and many instances of his feats of magic are given.

He found himself wanting his nishani to gaze at him as she did in the image.

Denton was fastidious about his appearance and he expected the woman at his side to mirror that image.

Satisfied with her image in the mirror, she stepped out of the bathroom and found a plate of scrambled eggs waiting for her in the kitchen.

Denton cultured his grace and worked at presenting the proper image.

The image of her world being destroyed was hazy, fading.

Cold fear filtered through her, taking her breath away at the image he painted.

As the powers of the telescope were gradually developed, it was found that the finest hairs or filaments of silk, or the thinnest silver wires that could be drawn, were much too thick for the refined purposes of the astronomer, as p p they entirely obliterated the image of a star in the more powerful telescopes.

Thus a latent image of the " reseau-lines " will be formed on the sensitive plate, and, when the latter has been exposed to the sky in the telescope, we obtain, on development, a negative of the images both of the stars and of the reseau-lines.

At Greenwich, Oxford and several other observatories, instead of measuring the distances of the star's image from the opposite sides of the 5 mm.

The image of the star is set updn the intersections of the lines of the central cross, and the positions of the reseau-lines are read off by estimation to - of a division on the glass scale.