visual image
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈvɪʒuəl ˈɪmɪdʒ/
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imagen visual
- When I closed my eyes, a vivid visual image of the ocean came to mind, reminding me of my last vacation.
- vivid visual image
- provide a visual image
- create a visual image
And for me, I have zero visual memories and I cannot create visual images.
- And for me, I have zero visual memories and I cannot create visual images.
- He's talking about the quality of sound of Daisy, but he's using visual images to talk about that quality of sound.
- So no language but visual images, emotions as being a key there.
- And obviously film video is not the sort of the first medium that people have used to make visual images.
- The lens focuses the visual image in front of nearer to the lens near sighted then in front of the where it should land.
Examples
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So no language but visual images, emotions as being a key there.
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Adolescents' worlds are now filled with visual images, especially those mediated by technology and delivered by commercial media.
Academic text (2013) -
The process would usually start with a visual image, out of nowhere, quick.
Fiction book (1996) -
Composers of program music have often asked us to imagine visual images.
Academic text (1997) -
There is no way, in short, to keep visuality and visual images out of the study of language and literature.
Academic text (1995) -
First, students with LD used significantly fewer visual images as a strategy to solve word problems than did the gifted students.
Academic text (2013) -
The regional photographer must, therefore, immerse himself in the feelings, visual images, and creative conceptions of his subjects.
Academic text (1993) -
King employs many abstractions, but the metaphors provide concrete visual images for those.
Academic text (1997) -
Reaching people on an emotional level through direct experience, compelling stories, and visual images can often create the urgency that inspires action.
Academic text (2017) -
The Irish Sheela na gigs are fascinating visual images of extraordinary or supernatural women.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
848
3.8
A clear image in the mind of something not present
445
3.3
A picture you form in your mind from words or ideas
8
3.5
A clear image you form in your mind
7
3.8
A picture you make in your mind of something not there
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5.3
A picture you remember from a past event
1
9.8
A mental image or impression you get from your senses
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6.7
An idea in your mind that stands for something you remember or imagine
A picture in your mind you form when you see something
A clear image in your mind of a past event
An image you make in your mind when you imagine something
A picture in the mind people make to imagine the outside world
How Vivid
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning ('an image related to sight' or a mental picture based on what is seen) is directly and transparently derived from combining 'visual' (connected with sight) with 'image' (a picture or representation). This is a regular adjective + noun composition common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Visual image is a simple picture idea: visual means 'seen' and image means 'picture'. Imagine closing your eyes and still seeing the scene, so visual image means 'a mental picture based on what is seen'.