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1. n. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance. Source: opted

2. n. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol. Source: opted

3. n. Show; appearance; cast. Source: opted

4. n. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea. Source: opted

5. n. A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor. Source: opted

6. n. The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror. Source: opted

7. v. t. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. Source: opted

8. v. t. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine. Source: opted

9. n. an iconic mental representation Source: wordnet

10. n. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world Source: wordnet

11. n. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface Source: wordnet

12. n. a standard or typical example Source: wordnet

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