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imago
  • n  (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood
  • n  an adult insect produced after metamorphosis
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illustriousness
  • n  the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence
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illyria
  • n  an uncertain region on the east shore of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo-European people once lived
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illyrian
  • n  a minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast
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ilmen
  • n  a lake in northwestern Russia; drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga
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ilmenite
  • n  a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium
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ilo
  • n  the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor
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ilosone
  • n  an antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus; effective against many Gram-positive bacteria and some Gram-negative
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ilya ilich metchnikov
  • n  Russian bacteriologist in France who formulated the theory of phagocytosis (1845-1916)
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imam
  • n  (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide
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imamu amiri baraka
  • n  United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934)
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image
  • n  an iconic mental representation
    her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
  • n  (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
    a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty
  • n  a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
    a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them
  • n  a standard or typical example
    he provided America with an image of the good father
  • n  language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
  • n  someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
    she's the very image of her mother
  • n  (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
    the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers
  • n  the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
    although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry
    the company tried to project an altruistic image
  • n  a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
    the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone
  • v  render visible, as by means of MRI
  • v  imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
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image breaker
  • n  a destroyer of images used in religious worship
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