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.
Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
Show; appearance; cast.
A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
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.
To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically.
To go over and examine point by point; to examine with care; to look closely at or into; to scrutinize.
To examine quickly, from point to point, in search of something specific; as, to scan an article for mention of a particular person.
To form an image or an electronic representation of, by passing a beam of light or electrons over, and detecting and recording the reflected or transmitted signal.
