Antonyms for imaging


Grammar : Verb
Spell : im-uh-jing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪm ə dʒɪŋ


Definition of imaging

Origin :
  • c.1200, "piece of statuary; artificial representation that looks like a person or thing," from Old French image "image, likeness; figure, drawing, portrait; reflection; statue," earlier imagene (11c.), from Latin imaginem (nominative imago) "copy, statue, picture," figuratively "idea, appearance," from stem of imitari "to copy, imitate" (see imitation).
  • Meaning "reflection in a mirror" is early 14c. The mental sense was in Latin, and appears in English late 14c. Sense of "public impression" is attested in isolated cases from 1908 but not in common use until its rise in the jargon of advertising and public relations, c.1958.
  • As in interpret : verb make sense of; define
  • As in mirror : verb copy, reflect
  • As in personify : verb represent some other being, character
  • As in picture : verb depict, describe
  • As in portray : verb represent, imitate
  • As in project : verb plan
  • As in realize : verb appreciate, become aware of
  • As in render : verb show; execute
  • As in think : verb believe; anticipate
  • As in visualize : verb make a picture of in the mind
  • As in envision : verb conceive
  • As in envisage : verb imagine
  • As in conceive : verb create
  • As in depict : verb describe, render in drawing or writing
  • As in describe : verb explain in speech, writing
  • As in envisage/envision : verb picture in one's mind
  • As in fancy : verb imagine, create
  • As in imagine : verb dream up, conceive
Example sentences :
  • Indicate the pauses required to allow time for the Imaging process.
  • Extract from : « The Ontario High School Reader » by A.E. Marty
  • How does the Imaging affect the Pitch in the first two stanzas?
  • Extract from : « The Ontario High School Reader » by A.E. Marty
  • Note the word-pictures and the effect of the Imaging process on the Time.
  • Extract from : « The Ontario High School Reader » by A.E. Marty
  • The intellect is thus assisted in imaging or realizing the scene.
  • Extract from : « Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism » by F. V. N. Painter
  • We try to image force, because we think that we succeed in imaging matter.
  • Extract from : « Who Goes There? » by Blackwood Ketcham Benson
  • This does not depend on ignorance or the reverse, but on imaging power.
  • Extract from : « A Librarian's Open Shelf » by Arthur E. Bostwick
  • Imaging technologies make drawing available to everyone, exactly as writing was available to those processed as literates.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • The inconceivability is a general one; it is due to the difficulty of imaging the complexity of matter.
  • Extract from : « Herbert Spencer » by J. Arthur Thomson
  • He had amused himself, of late, by imaging his relation to her in the fable of the sun and the traveller.
  • Extract from : « Tante » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  • Let us take for experiment six of the best-known types of imaging and see in practise how they arise in our own minds.
  • Extract from : « The Art of Public Speaking » by Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

Synonyms for imaging

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