Image definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary IM'AGE, n. [L. imago ... person or thing, formed of a material substance; as an image wrought out of stone, wood or wax. Whose is this image and superscription? Matthew 22. 2. A statue. 3. An idol ... 5. Any copy, representation or likeness. The child is the image of its mother. 6. Semblance; show; appearance. The face of things a frightful image bears. 7. An idea; a representation of any thing to ... a conception; a picture drawn by fancy. Can we conceive Image of aught delightful, soft or great? 8. In rhetoric, ...
virtual image definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a reflected optical image (as seen in a plane mirror) Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1859 an image (as seen in a plane mirror) formed of points from ... if not reflected or refracted before they reach it. Virtual image. (Optics) See under Image. Virtual moment (of a force) (Mech.), the product of the ... work. (Mech.) See Virtual moment, above. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Image Im"age, n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from ...
... Terms (1) Matstsebhah ("pillar") (2) 'Asherah ("grove") (3) Chamman ("sun-image") 6. Obscure Bible References (1) Golden Calf Jeroboam's Calves (2) Brazen Serpent (3) Teraphim (4) Image of Jealousy (5) Chambers of Imagery (6) 'Ephod LITERATURE 1 ... While the temple is not naturally thought of as an "image," it was as truly so as any Bethel. An idol ... in miniature--a dwelling-place of the god. When an image became the object of worship or a means by which ... respectively. 2. Origin: The learned author of the article on "Image Worship" in the Encyclopedia Biblica (11th edition) disposes too easily of this question when he suggests that image-worship is "a continuance by adults of their childish ...
... in Ge 1:27: "God created man in his own image." This act of creation is described as the result of ... formed, fashioned, shaped out of "earth" and made after the "image of God." More than one word is employed in the ... the rest of creation and yet one with it. 2. Image and Likeness: This distinction becomes more clear in the declaration that man was made in the "image" (tselem, eikon, imago), and after the likeness (demuth, homoiosis, similitudo ... the two terms differ essentially in meaning; some maintaining that "image" refers to the physical, "likeness" to the ethical side of man's nature; others holding that "image" is that which is natural to man, was created ...
Electrical image definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Electric E*lec"tric, Electrical ... Gymnotus. Electric fluid, the supposed matter of electricity; lightning. Electrical image (Elec.), a collection of electrical points regarded as forming, by an analogy with optical phenomena, an image of certain other electrical points, and used in the solution ... the torpedo. Electric telegraph. See Telegraph. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Image Im"age, n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the ... an effigy; a picture; a semblance. Even like a stony image, cold and numb. --Shak. Whose is this image and superscription? --Matt. xxii. 20. This play is the ...
image breaker definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a destroyer of images used in religious worship [syn: iconoclast, image breaker] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Image Im"age, n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the ... an effigy; a picture; a semblance. Even like a stony image, cold and numb. --Shak. Whose is this image and superscription? --Matt. xxii. 20. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. --Shak. And God ...
Image graver definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Image Im"age, n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the ... an effigy; a picture; a semblance. Even like a stony image, cold and numb. --Shak. Whose is this image and superscription? --Matt. xxii. 20. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. --Shak. And God created man in his own image. --Gen. i. 27. 2. Hence: The likeness of anything ...
Image maker definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Image Im"age, n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the ... an effigy; a picture; a semblance. Even like a stony image, cold and numb. --Shak. Whose is this image and superscription? --Matt. xxii. 20. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. --Shak. And God created man in his own image. --Gen. i. 27. 2. Hence: The likeness of anything ...
Image worship definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Image Im"age, n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the ... an effigy; a picture; a semblance. Even like a stony image, cold and numb. --Shak. Whose is this image and superscription? --Matt. xxii. 20. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. --Shak. And God created man in his own image. --Gen. i. 27. 2. Hence: The likeness of anything ...
Image Purkinje definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Image Im"age, n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the ... an effigy; a picture; a semblance. Even like a stony image, cold and numb. --Shak. Whose is this image and superscription? --Matt. xxii. 20. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. --Shak. And God created man in his own image. --Gen. i. 27. 2. Hence: The likeness of anything ...
... of painters; painting. Quintilian, when he saw any well expressed image of grief, either in picture or sculpture, would usually weep ... projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn: picture, image, icon, ikon] 2: graphic art consisting of an artistic composition ... Louvre" [syn: painting, picture] 3: a clear and telling mental image; "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had ... strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image] 2: show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene ... description so vivid or graphic as to suggest a mental image or give an accurate idea of something < the book gives ... a detailed picture of what is happening > b. a mental image 3. image, copy < he was the picture of his ...
... 3. Outward Writing II. THE SYMBOLS 1. Object Writing 2. Image Writing 3. Picture Writing 4. Mnemonic Writing 5. Phonetic Writing ... inward writing. By inward writing is commonly meant the inward image or counterpart of visual or tangible handwriting as distinguished from ... writing undoubtedly came first, but man early learned that the image of an object would serve as well for record purposes ... history of shorthand. It begins with the whole object or image, passes to the characteristic part, reduces this to the fewest ... actual historical evolution of writing seems to have been object, image-picture, ideogram. phonogram, syllable, consonant, letter. All of these stages ... a notched stick, a knot, or any other object or image of an object which does not in itself suggest ...
mirror image definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a likeness in which left and right are reversed [syn: mirror image, reflection, reflexion] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1885 1. a ... an intervening axis or plane b. the direct opposite 2. image 3 Collin's Cobuild Dictionary also mirror-image(mirror images) If something is a mirror image of something else, it is like a reflection of it ... the same but reversed. I saw in him a mirror image of my younger self... N-COUNT: oft N of ...
GOD, IMAGE OF definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia In Ge 1:26 ... truth is declared that God created man in His own "image" (tselem), after His "likeness" (demuth). The two ideas denote the ... Col 3:10; Isa 3:9). The nature of this image of God in man is discussed in other articles--see ... It lies in the nature of the case that the "image" does not consist in bodily form; it can only reside ... and invests his being with the sanctity of personality. The image of God, defaced, but not entirely lost through sin, is ... the full discussion in the writer's work, God's Image in Man and Its Defacement; see also Dr. J. ...