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Definition: Imagery |
ImageryNoun1. The ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "imagery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Imagery \Im"age*ry\, noun. [from Old English expression imagerie, French imagerie.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Imagery only in the phrase "chambers of his imagery" (Ezek. 8:12). (See CHAMBER.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Computing | The products of image forming instruments. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | Visible representations of objects and/or earth science processes as sensed or detected by cameras. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Imagery--words that create a picture. Edgar Allan Poe was a master of imagery. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," for example, such pictures of a "black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster by the dwelling," create images in the mind of trepidation and gloom.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Imagery."
Synonyms: ImagerySynonyms: imagination (n), imaging (n), mental imagery (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, "a fine frenzy"; cloudland, dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming fancies"; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery. |
Metaphor | Phrase; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis; metonymy, synecdoche; autonomasia, irony, figurativeness; Adjective: image, imagery; metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application. |
Representation | Noun: representation, representment; imitation; illustration, delineation, depictment; imagery, portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting; sculpture; engraving; photography, cinematography; radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy. |
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Screenplays | Hello to the imagery. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | OCTS imagery of the Gulf of Maine. Credit: NASA. |  | Satellite sensors and imagery have revolutionized oceanography An image of the Gulf Stream. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Plate VII -- Tropical and Polar Air Currents. Contrast this view to some of the early TIROS imagery in the Space collection. In: The Weather Book : A Manual of Practical Meteorology, by Rear Admiral Robert Fitzroy . Published in 1863. Call Number QC861 .F54 1863. He was the commanding officer of H. M. S. BEAGLE when Charles Darwin made his famous studies. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | The Command and Data Acquisition (CDA) station at Wallops Island. Large antenna on left receives TIROS TV imagery. Immediately to the right of this antenna is a smaller antenna that receives and transmits navigation and control commands. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | Visible imagery (VIS) and Infrared (IR) photographs from NOAA 2 Very High Resolution Radiometers (VHRR), orbit 2453. NOAA 2 was at an altitude of 905 miles. The visible channel represents reflected light, while the IR image has been derived from a sensor response to the temperature of the earth, ocean, and clouds. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | GOES imagery. Note fog in California Central Valley, frontal system bisecting Texas, and cloud streets north of cold front in the Gulf of Mexico. There is a large winter storm on the East Coast. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | Composite imagery touting the accomplishments of TIROS V. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Map of TIROS II infrared imagery with accompanying cloud analysis. TIROS II was the first meteorological satellite to carry infra-red remote sensing instruments. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | Titled "TIROS fills a void for World Weather Watch." This image show composite imagery in the southern ocean with accompanying weather map and analysis. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | An example of the imagery from satellites: A base in Central America with aircraft pinpointed. (Image courtesy of Air Force Space Command). |
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| "Everyday objects 2" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Partial pencil lower left corner on a red background . Great for background imagery, with lots of additional highlighted space for copy. 2003-10-25." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The imagery of the psalms of prophecy soothed his barren pride |
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Health | Sometimes, relaxation and the use of imagery as a distraction provide relief. (references) | |
Rhythmic breathing, imagery, and distraction are among the techniques that are easy to learn and use whenever you need them. If you're interested, ask your doctor or nurse to refer you to someone trained to teach these techniques. (references) | ||
Business | There was also a sharp increase in procurement from the U.S. in 1996 related to signal and imagery intelligence capability-related projects. (references) | |
Economic History | Uk | The NHS budget has been increased by 35 percent through 2005, to enable the purchase of capital equipment such as IV pumps, lasers, imagery systems, pathology laboratories and hospital bed systems. (references) |
Belize | In January 2001 the Pan American Institute of Geography and History along with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) demarcated the border and confirmed that three disputed Guatemalan settlements were in Belizean terroritory. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Imagery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Imagery" is used about 646 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 646 | 10,107 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "imagery": Active imagery ♦ color imagery ♦ colour imagery ♦ continuous strip imagery ♦ eidetic imagery ♦ ERTS imagery ♦ full of imagery ♦ Future Imagery Architecture ♦ GENetic Imagery Exploitation ♦ Guided imagery ♦ hologram imagery ♦ Imagery (Psychotherapy) ♦ imagery collateral ♦ imagery correlation ♦ imagery data recording ♦ imagery exploitation ♦ imagery interpreparation ♦ imagery interpreparation key ♦ imagery pack ♦ imagery sortie ♦ infrared imagery ♦ Interactive Guided Imagery ♦ mental imagery ♦ radar imagery ♦ Receptive imagery ♦ SPOT imagery ♦ stereo imagery ♦ Taoist Healing Imagery ♦ thematic mapper imagery ♦ thermal imagery ♦ TM imagery. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "imagery": dream-imagery, mass-imagery. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "imagery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skulpturë (sculpture, stabile), shëmbëlltyrë (effigy, image, imago). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجاز (allegory, corridor, figure, image, metaphor, passage, path, track, way), تماثيل, تمثال أيقونة, تشبيه (comparison, figure, image, likening), أصنام. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | статуи (statuary), скулптори, художествени образи, образност, образи, метафори, икони, идоли. (various references) | |
Chinese | 成像. (various references) | |
Czech | obraznost (figuration). (various references) | |
Danish | billedmateriale, billeder. (various references) | |
Dutch | inbeelding (chimaera, chimera, imagination), beelden. (various references) | |
Farsi | مجسمه سازی (Plastic, Sculpture), تصورات , تشبیه ادبی , صنایع بدیعی , شکل ومجسمه , شبیه سازی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kuvat, kuvakieli (metaphorical language). (various references) | |
French | images, imagerie, idoles, données-image. (various references) | |
German | symbolik (imageries, symbolism), optische Abbildung, metaphorik, bildersymbolik, Bilder (images, pictures, tableaus), Abbildungstechnik, Abbildung (depiction, fig, figure, ill, illustration, image, map, mapping, picture, transformation). (various references) | |
Greek | εκρφαστικά μέσα, εικόνεσ (pictures), εικόνες. (various references) | |
Hebrew | דמוי (comparison, like, likeness, resemblance, simile, similitude, simulation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ábrázolás (delineation, depiction, portrayal, presentment, rendition, representation), szóképek, hasonlatok. (various references) | |
Indonesian | perumpamaan (parable), citraan. (various references) | |
Italian | immagini (visuals), linguaggio (accent, language, lingo, parlance, ribaldry, speech). (various references) | |
Korean | 심상 (image). (various references) | |
Manx | soylaghey (comparison, liken, resemble, similitude, typify), jalloonys (idolatry). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imageryay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imaginaria, imagens, figuras esculpidas, figuras de retrica, esculturas (sculptures), acervo de imagens. (various references) | |
Romanian | imagisticã, imagini specifice, imagini, ilustrare (exemplification, illustration), exemplificare prin imagini. (various references) | |
Russian | образы, образность, изображение (delineation, depiction, description, effigy, figure, icon, ikon, image, portrait, portrayal, reflection, reflexion, representation, scenes). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slikovito izlaganje, lik (character, countenance, face, figure, image). (various references) | |
Spanish | imaginería. (various references) | |
Swedish | bildspråk (metaphorical, metaphorical language, metaphorically). (various references) | |
Thai | การอุปมาอุปไมย (figuration), ภาพในงานด้านศิลปะ, ภาพในความนึกคิด. (various references) | |
Turkish | imgeler, tasvirler, tanımlamalar, heykeller (statuary), hayaller, görüntüler, benzetmeler. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уявлення (apprehension, conception, impression, notion), скульптура (sculpture, statuary), образність (visualization). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hình chạm, đồ khắc hình tượng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Imagery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amager, Azagury, imagaic, imagary, imageery, imagey, imagier, imagor, imagry, immageery, magary, magery, mimagree, Mingary, Mugeary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "imagery" (pronounced 'Im"age*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-r-y" | |
-1 letter: gamier, imager, maigre, mirage. | |
-2 letters: aimer, gamer, gamey, gayer, germy, grime, grimy, image, marge, ramie, regma, yager. | |
-3 letters: aery, ager, airy, amie, amir, army, emir, eyra, game, gamy, gear, germ, gram, gray, grey, grim, gyre, gyri, mage, magi, mair, mare, mire, miry, rage, ragi, rami, ream, rime, rimy, yagi, yare, year. | |
-4 letters: age, aim. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-r-y" | |
+2 letters: yammering. | |
+3 letters: germinally, gravimetry, kerygmatic, mineralogy, pigmentary, remarrying. | |
+4 letters: daydreaming, embracingly, gimcrackery, hypergamies, impregnably, karyogamies, merrymaking, screamingly, tragicomedy. | |
+5 letters: gyromagnetic, kymographies, managerially, merrymakings, seismography. | |
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