ADJ
positive negative upmarket downmarket tarnished The party needs to clean up its somewhat tarnished image clean-cut, girl-next-door, wholesome She was aiming for a wholesome, girl-next-door image macho hackneyed the hackneyed image of the poor student media, public, screen In real life she looks nothing like her screen image brand, corporate Champagne houses owe their success to brand image
VERB + IMAGE
create The company needs to create a new image for itself present, project, promote a book which presents positive images of older people aim for, go for change clean up, enhance, improve, polish, revive an effort to improve the organization's public image keep up, live up to The group has failed to live up to its macho image discard, shed The industry is trying to shed its negative image tarnish
ADJ
powerful, vivid sudden She had a sudden mental image of herself in a wedding dress positive negative distorted the distorted images in his dreams popular stereotyped/stereotypical mental literary, poetic dream
VERB + IMAGE
have conjure up, summon up Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless cottage cheese salads. the ability to summon up images in the mind build up I like to build up images of the characters and setting before I start to write use reinforce Treating disabled people like children only reinforces negative images of disability
PREP
~ from images from his past
ADJ
living, spitting He's the spitting image of his father! mirror Charity was a mirror image of her twin. (figurative) The return journey was almost a mirror image of the outward one (= the same things happened in the reverse order)
ADJ
disturbing, poignant, powerful, striking powerful and disturbing images of the war visual The visual image is steadily replacing the written word flickering, moving flickering images on a screen still the use of still and moving video images colour black-and-white, monochrome photographic, video screen Each illustration is displayed as a complete screen image digital graven (literary) It was forbidden to worship graven (= carved) images religious pornographic
VERB + IMAGE
produce the images produced on laser printers capture, scan She longed to capture the image on film edit display, show the pixel information used to display a digital image store You can store these images in a separate computer file juxtapose The display juxtaposed images from serious and popular art
IMAGE + VERB
show sth heat images that show where most of the activity in the brain is
IMAGE + NOUN
capture, processing database