What does image mean?

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[n] an iconic mental representation(her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate)[v] render visible, as by means of MRI[n] (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world(a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty)[v] imagine; conceive of; see in

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[n] an iconic mental representation
(her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate)

[v] render visible, as by means of MRI

[n] (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
(a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty)

[v] imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
(I can't see him on horseback! I can see what will happen I can see a risk in this strategy)

[n] a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
(they showed us the pictures of their wedding a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them)

[n] a standard or typical example
(he is the prototype of good breeding he provided America with an image of the good father)

[n] language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

[n] someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
(he could be Gingrich's double she's the very image of her mother)

[n] (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
(the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers)

[n] the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
(although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry the company tried to project an altruistic image)

[n] a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
(the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone)

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.