Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - image

~ n 1 »PUBLIC OPINION« the general opinion that most people have of a person, organization, product etc  (The party is seeking to improve its image with women voters. | project an image (=make an image))  (The princess aimed to project an image of herself as serious and hard-working.) 2 »IDEA IN MIND« a picture that you have in your mind, especially about what someone or something is like or the way they look  (She had a clear image of how she would look in twenty years' time. | He didn't really conform to the hard-drinking, hard-living image of the political journalist.) 3 »PICTURE/WHAT YOU SEE« a) a picture of an object in a mirror or in the lens (2) of a camera  (She gazed at her image in the glass.) b) a picture on the screen1 (1) screen1 (2) of a television, cinema, or computer  (The image on a computer screen is made up of thousands of pixels.) c) a copy of the shape of a person or thing, especially cut in wood, stone etc  (carved images in the rocks) 4 »DESCRIPTION« a phrase or word that describes something in a poetic way  (the image of man as a prisoner of the gods) 5 be the (very/living/spitting) image of to look exactly like someone or something else  (He's the very image of his father.) 6 in the image of literary in the same form or shape as someone or something else  (According to the Bible, man was made in the image of God.)  (- see also mirror image)