The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of ye Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon[sic – meaningrandom] uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in theImages.
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRIimages, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
A mental picture of something not real or not present.
Think of banking today and theimage 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.
1697,Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
1718,Alexander Pope,TheIliad ofHomer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215,[2]
This Representation of the Terrors which must have attended the Conflict of two such mighty Powers asJupiter andNeptune, whereby the Elements had been mix’d in Confusion, and the whole Frame of Nature endangered, isimaged in these few Lines with a Nobleness suitable to the Occasion.
[…] his behaviour was, as I hadimaged to myself, solemnly devout.
1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, inPersuasion; published inNorthanger Abbey: And Persuasion.[…], volume(please specify |volume=III or IV), London:John Murray,[…], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818),→OCLC:
[…] he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines whichimaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely[…]
[The road] straggled onward into the mystery of a primeval forest. This hemmed it in so narrowly, and stood so black and dense on either side, and disclosed such imperfect glimpses of the sky above, that, to Hester’s mind, itimaged not amiss the moral wilderness in which she had so long been wandering.
2000, Mary Ann Schwartz, BarBara Marliene Scott, Madine M. L. Vanderplaat,Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World, page51:
For example, in one use of content analysis, U.S. researchers Victoria Holden, William Holden, and Gary Davis (1997) examined the growing controversy over the racialimaging of indigenous peoples symbolized in sports team nicknames[…]
1829,Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo”, inThe Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson[3], volume I, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, published1906, page10:
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,
[…]we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own,imaging our own, but all unconscious of us; to whom we, for the time, are become as spirits and invisible!
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.
image,reputation(way in which a person, an organization, an institution, etc., is perceived and evaluated, resulting from its characteristics or behavior)
