image
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈɪmɪdʒ/
- He's the image of you.
- a mirror image
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- It's natural to read it as the friend being an image of oneself.
Examples
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The medieval knight image applied to his features as well as his build.
Fiction book (1995) -
But Kenna was strong and healthy and the very image of his father.
Fiction book (1994) -
And if he wants to make me in his image, hey.
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But God made man in his image.
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Surely if he was made in his image, he might accomplish something by his labor.
Fiction book (1991) -
You know, with your hair like this... you're the very image of your grandma.
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You're the spitting image of your mom.
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I remember thinking, "That little girl is the spitting image of her mother."
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You're the spitting image of your mom.
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His name was Chris, and I guess he was the spitting image of my father 30 years younger.
Synonyms
68
4.7
A person who stands in for another, often in movies
31
3.8
A person who looks or acts very like another person
21
3.9
A person who is very similar in appearance to another person, often a famous person
15
7.8
A person who looks almost exactly like someone else but is not related
15
3.7
A person or thing that looks exactly like another one
11
7.5
A person who looks very much like another person but is not related
9
7.4
A person who looks exactly like someone else
7
3.5
A person or thing that looks very similar to another, often a famous person
1
9.8
A person or thing that looks almost the same as another
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
2
3.5
A machine that turns a paper picture or document into a computer file
- Specialized
1
4.2
A way of making a photo file smaller by removing extra data so it uses less space
- Specialized
1
6.8
A complete copy of the information in a computer's active memory saved as a file
- Specialized
A relationship where two molecules or crystals are exact mirror reflections of each other
How Similar
20
3.3
15
7.8
68
4.7
59
5.6
7
3.5
102
3.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Image comes from the Latin imago, meaning 'likeness' or 'copy', so calling someone the image of another means they are like a living picture of that person. This shows the word's sense of strong physical or moral resemblance.