imagery

/ˈɪmɪdʒ(ə)ri/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈɪmɪdʒ(ə)ri/

imagery

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

i - ma - ge - ry -> imagery

Myanmar meaning

(n) နိမိတ်ပုံ

Full entry

image / 'ÇmÇdz / n

၁။ [C] အမြင်။ ရုပ်သွင်။ နာမည်။ a new / youthful image ❍ How can we improve our (public) image?
၂။ [C] ပုံ။ ရုပ်သွင်။ ရုပ်လွှာ။ an image of refugees queuing for food ❍ I have this image of you as always being cheerful.
၃။ (က) [sing] ပုံ။ ရုပ်သွင်။ ပုံစံ။ She looks the image of her mother. (ခ) [C] ဆင်းတု။ ရုပ်တု။ carved images.
၄။ [C] ပုံရိပ်။ See also MIRROR IMAGE
၅။ [C] ပုံရိပ်။ ရုပ်လွှာ။ a poem full of startling images.
❑ imagery / 'ÇmÇdʒǝri / n [U]
၁။ နိမိတ်ပုံ။ စာပန်းချီ။ poetic imagery.
၂။ ရုပ်ပုံ၊ ဓာတ်ပုံ စသည် ပုံရိပ်။ satellite imagery (eg photographs of the earth taken from space).
❑ the very / living / spitting image (of sb) [IDM ] ချွတ်စွပ်။ He’s the spitting image of Prince Charles.

More examples

[image of] : We have an image of the US as a very rich country.
[shake off/get away from/shed an image] : The company needs to shake off its outdated image.
[image of] : Media images of young women
[project/present/promote an image] : They present an image of themselves as experts in this area.
[positive/negative image] : The charity is trying to promote positive images of mental handicap.
The strong visual images of the Catholic church
[conjure up an image] : Their name conjures up images of shiny new office buildings.
[mental image] : I had a sudden mental image of Robert waiting for me with flowers.
The flickering black-and-white images on the first cinema screens
Software for manipulating images after you have scanned them
Images of strange-looking animals are carved into the rocks.
Mrs Carson was peering closely at her own image in the mirror.
The book paints an image of the human being as alone in a crowded world.

Synonyms

picture, representation, icon, figure, likeness, illustration, reflection, copy, act like, act out, acting out, air, angel, appearance, apprehension, aspect, aura, be cognizant of, be convinced, be held, be inclined to think, become conscious of, become pregnant, blueprinted, blueprinting, body forth, bring to mind, bringing to mind, brought to mind, build castles in air, call up, called up, calling up, carbon, carbon copy, carved figure, catch on, caught on, chip off old block, commentate, conceit, conceive, conceive of, concept, conception, construct, convey image, dead ringer, depict, depicture, describe, diagramed, diagramming, doppelgänger, double, drawing, duplicate, effigy, emblematize, envisage, envision, equal, equivalent, facsimile, fancy, film, form, form mental picture of, get it, get the idea, get the picture, get through one's head, got it, have a picture of, hominify, idea, idol, imaged, imagine, impression, incarnated, intellection, interpret, live as, look, look upon, made clear, make apparent, make clear, make human, make like, make of, make sense of, make up off top of one's head, make vivid, map out, mark out, marking out, match, mental picture, mirror, model, notion, perception, persona, personify, personize, phantasm, photocopy, photograph, plan for, planned for, portrait, portray, project, re-present, realize, reenact, render, replica, representation; counterpart, reproduction, scan, schemed, sculpt, sculpted, sculpting, see daylight, see in one's mind, see in the mind's eye, semblance, similitude, simulacre, simulacrum, spitball, spitting image, statue, think, think likely, think of, think up, thinking of, thought, thought of, thought up, throw light on, trope, trump up, twin, view, view in mind's eye, vision, visioning, visualize, write up

Antonyms

concrete, difference, entity, original