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1017 lines
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{
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"image":{
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"antonyms":[
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"depict",
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"picture",
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"portray",
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"represent"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a likeness of an object produced on a photographic material":[],
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": a mental conception held in common by members of a group and symbolic of a basic attitude and orientation":[
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"a disorderly courtroom can seriously tarnish a community's image of justice",
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"\u2014 Herbert Brownell"
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],
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": a mental picture or impression of something":[
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"had a negative body image of herself"
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],
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": a person strikingly like another person":[
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"she is the image of her mother"
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],
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": a picture produced on an electronic display (such as a television or computer screen)":[],
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": a popular conception (as of a person, institution, or nation) projected especially through the mass media":[
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"promoting a corporate image of brotherly love and concern",
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"\u2014 R. C. Buck"
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],
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": a set of values given by a mathematical function (such as a homomorphism) that corresponds to a particular subset of the domain":[],
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": a tangible or visible representation : incarnation":[
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"the image of filial devotion"
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],
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": a visual representation of something: such as":[],
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": a vivid or graphic representation or description":[],
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": an illusory form : apparition":[],
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": exact likeness : semblance":[
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"God created man in his own image",
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"\u2014 Genesis 1:27 (Revised Standard Version)"
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],
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": figure of speech":[],
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": idea , concept":[],
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": reflect , mirror":[],
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": the optical counterpart of an object produced by an optical device (such as a lens or mirror) or an electronic device":[],
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": to call up a mental picture of : imagine":[],
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": to describe or portray in language especially in a vivid manner":[],
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": to make a disk image of":[
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"Many computer forensics programs now include the option of imaging a suspect drive.",
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"\u2014 Yvonne Jewkes"
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],
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": to make appear : project":[],
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": to represent symbolically":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"She studied her image in the mirror.",
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"The kids sat staring at the images on the TV screen.",
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"painters capturing images of war",
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"black-and-white images of the city",
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"His poem evokes images of the sea and warm summer days.",
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"He is trying hard to improve his image .",
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"The law suit has negatively affected the company's public image .",
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"a politician who cares more about image than about telling the truth",
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"Verb",
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"in the painting Sacagawea is imaged as an intrepid woman pointing the way for Lewis and Clark",
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"the brochure images a vacation at the resort in language that makes you want to make a reservation this instant",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"For many in the community, that image is a far cry from reality. \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
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"However, while the family was smiling politely for the picture chosen for their Christmas card, this image is much more informal, showing the children laughing while Louis sits on his dad\u2019s shoulders. \u2014 Victoria Murphy, Town & Country , 19 June 2022",
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"The image of a young child being introduced to the magic of the motor car is a slice of Americana right off a Norman Rockwell canvas. \u2014 Viju Mathew, Robb Report , 18 June 2022",
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"Each image was to depict an object that was distinctly American in design and ornamentation. \u2014 Jonathon Keats, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
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"That image was with me the whole time, something about the power of that idea. \u2014 al , 16 June 2022",
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"Where the first image of our galaxy\u2019s black hole was exciting, a new discovery related to black holes is just as terrifying. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 16 June 2022",
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"Once the image is uploaded, it can be selected as your background. \u2014 Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
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"The hero brand image is a unicorn, whose mane touts different shades of brown (vanilla, caramel, and mocha) as opposed to the traditional iridescence associated with unicorns. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 15 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"These longer, redder wavelengths than visible light means Webb can image clouds of gas and pierce through the dust that obscures, for example, the inner regions of most nebulae and a lot of stars in both our own and distant galaxies. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
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"Similar laser technology was used by the National Park Service to image brown bears in Katmai National Park for Fat Bear Week, giving Mangipane and her colleagues the idea to adapt the laser imaging system to other bears in the wild. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 June 2022",
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"The technique gives researchers the ability to image a large object quickly and cheaply extract useful information about that object. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"There would be no way for a single telescope to image more than one planet, or one star system with several interesting worlds, at a time. \u2014 Allison Gasparini, Scientific American , 25 May 2022",
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"Using tools on the surface, researchers were able to image far below the ice. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 7 May 2022",
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"The company can image Ukraine daily, Mr. Greenley said, and the images can be ready to view in some cases in less than 15 minutes. \u2014 Robert Wall, WSJ , 1 May 2022",
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"What if industrial designers could see inside a bicycle or a running shoe with the same precision that doctors can image their patients\u2019 internal organs",
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"The team managed to get enough of those telescopes pointed at the repeating source to image five individual FRBs. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 24 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 7":"Noun",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English imagen, in part derivative of image image entry 1 , in part borrowed from Middle French ymagier \"to imagine,\" derivative of image":"Verb",
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"Middle English, \"effigy, figure, mental impression of something observed, reflection, resemblance,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, shortened from imagene, borrowed from Latin im\u0101gin-, im\u0101g\u014d \"representation, reflection, apparition, semblance, copy, visible form,\" from im\u0101- (probably the stem of an otherwise unattested verb *im\u0101r\u012b with the same base as imit\u0101r\u012b \"to follow as a pattern, copy\") + -gin-, -g\u014d, denominal or deverbal noun suffix \u2014 more at imitate":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8i-mij",
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"\u02c8im-ij"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"alter ego",
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"carbon",
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"carbon copy",
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"clone",
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"counterpart",
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"doppelg\u00e4nger",
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"doppelganger",
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"double",
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"duplicate",
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"duplication",
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"facsimile",
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"fetch",
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"likeness",
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"look-alike",
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"match",
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"mirror image",
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"picture",
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"replica",
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"ringer",
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"spit",
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"spitting image",
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"twin"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231119",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"imaginable":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": capable of being imagined : conceivable":[
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"any imaginable location"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Computers now allow us to do things that were hardly imaginable only a few years ago.",
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"The store has fruits of every kind imaginable .",
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"We tried every imaginable therapy.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Jazz fans are being asked to buy some of the truly ugliest clothing imaginable . \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 17 June 2022",
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"The first set was one of the closest and longest imaginable in the tiebreaker format, lasting 91 minutes with breaks of serve and extended rallies the rule. \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2022",
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"At the absolute worst time imaginable in their lives, donors and their families make the decision to help anonymous individuals in need. \u2014 Richard N. Formica, STAT , 24 Apr. 2022",
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"With a majority hardly imaginable in any Western country, Fidesz dominated the Hungarian National Assembly and started to change the system with a cunning glee. \u2014 Zsuzsanna Szel\u00e9nyi, The New Republic , 5 Apr. 2022",
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"Their beautiful, technically flawless bakes were the dream of the European Coal and Steel Community made flesh dough \u2014 two former wartime enemies seamlessly integrated into the most cozily British scenario imaginable . \u2014 Nate Jones, Vulture , 1 Dec. 2021",
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"After all, Taylor, then 17, had what seemed the best imaginable alibi: When Jeffrey Lassiter and Sharon Haugabook were shot to death on Nov. 16, 1992, in Chicago\u2019s Uptown neighborhood, Taylor was behind bars in a nearby police lockup. \u2014 Steve Mills, ProPublica , 30 May 2022",
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"Those skills are now applied to prototypes of an entirely different kind, of an entirely- imaginable world where human labor itself is an artifact, replaced by indifferent machines. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
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"Businesses Will Connect Directly To Customers Geographical barriers have been deciding factors in access, not just for banking and financial services, but for virtually every type of good and service imaginable . \u2014 Reco Mccambry, Forbes , 26 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English ymaginable, borrowed from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Late Latin im\u0101gin\u0101bilis, from Latin im\u0101gin\u0101r\u012b \"to imagine \" + -bilis \"capable (of acting) or worthy of (being acted upon)\" \u2014 more at -able":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"i-\u02c8ma-j\u0259-n\u0259-b\u0259l",
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"-\u02c8ma-j\u0259-",
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"i-\u02c8maj-n\u0259-b\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-132441",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"imaginal":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": of or relating to imagination , images , or imagery":[],
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": of or relating to the insect imago":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1638, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
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"1877, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin im\u0101gin-, im\u0101g\u014d imago + -al entry 1":"Adjective",
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"borrowed from Late Latin im\u0101gin\u0101lis, from Latin im\u0101gin-, im\u0101g\u014d image entry 1 + -\u0101lis -al entry 1":"Adjective"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8m\u00e4-g\u0259-",
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"-\u02c8\u00e4g-\u0259n-",
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"-\u02c8m\u0101-",
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"im-\u02c8\u0101-g\u0259n-\u1d4al",
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"im-\u02c8aj-\u0259n-\u1d4al",
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"i-\u02c8ma-j\u0259-n\u1d4al"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"graphic",
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"graphical",
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"pictorial",
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"visual"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191553",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"imaginal disk":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": one of the clusters of undifferentiated cells in the larvae and pupae of some insects from which the wings, legs, and other organs of the adult are formed":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212812",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"imaginal type":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a tendency of an individual to have images arising predominantly from one or another sense (as from vision, hearing, or taste)":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112504",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"imaginant":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": imaginer":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin imaginant-, imaginans , present participle of imaginari to imagine":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165914",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"imaginary":{
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"antonyms":[
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"actual",
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"existent",
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"existing",
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"real"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": containing or relating to the imaginary unit":[
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"imaginary roots"
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],
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": existing only in imagination : lacking factual reality":[],
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": formed or characterized imaginatively or arbitrarily":[
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"his canvases, chiefly imaginary , somber landscapes",
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"\u2014 Current Biography"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"The two groups were separated by an imaginary line down the middle of the room.",
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"an imaginary world of dragons and unicorns",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The only war that should exist is the one between the bears and the unicorns, war as a joke, a bit fantastic and imaginary . \u2014 Holly Jones, Variety , 13 June 2022",
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"And yet many still draw imaginary lines separating digital components from other aspects of the business. \u2014 Denis Clifford, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
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"Kent walked outside onto the bus platform, smelled the chemical burn of fentanyl, and followed it through a crowd of about 25 homeless people to a woman who was smoking, pacing and gesticulating at an imaginary audience. \u2014 Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News , 7 June 2022",
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"Kent walked outside onto the bus platform, smelled the chemical burn of fentanyl, and followed it through a crowd of about 25 homeless people to a woman who was smoking, pacing and gesticulating at an imaginary audience. \u2014 Eli Saslow, Washington Post , 6 June 2022",
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"This is Mousganistan, the imaginary place that the distinctive image-maker has built piece by piece and brick by brick over the past few years. \u2014 Rica Cerbarano, Vogue , 6 June 2022",
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"The artwork for the single was designed by graphic designer Moe Yoshino, who created a collage of an imaginary flower from various real flowers. \u2014 Billboard Japan, Billboard , 31 May 2022",
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"Try to draw your own districts in this imaginary state. \u2014 New York Times , 30 May 2022",
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"These imaginary metrics of Latinidad only divide us further. \u2014 Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com , 23 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English ymaginarie, borrowed from Latin im\u0101gin\u0101rius \"unreal, fictitious (in law),\" from im\u0101gin-, im\u0101g\u014d \"representation, semblance, image entry 1 \" + -\u0101rius -ary entry 2":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02ccne-r\u0113",
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"i-\u02c8ma-j\u0259-\u02ccner-\u0113",
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"im-\u02c8aj-\u0259-\u02ccner-\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for imaginary imaginary , fanciful , visionary , fantastic , chimerical , quixotic mean unreal or unbelievable. imaginary applies to something which is fictitious and purely the product of one's imagination. an imaginary desert isle fanciful suggests the free play of the imagination. a teller of fanciful stories visionary stresses impracticality or incapability of realization. visionary schemes fantastic implies incredibility or strangeness beyond belief. a fantastic world inhabited by monsters chimerical combines the implication of visionary and fantastic . chimerical dreams of future progress quixotic implies a devotion to romantic or chivalrous ideals unrestrained by ordinary prudence and common sense. a quixotic crusade",
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"synonyms":[
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"chimerical",
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"chimeric",
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"fabulous",
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"fanciful",
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"fantasied",
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"fantastic",
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"fantastical",
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"fictional",
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"fictitious",
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"ideal",
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"imaginal",
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"imagined",
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"invented",
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"made-up",
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"make-believe",
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"mythical",
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"mythic",
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"notional",
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"phantasmal",
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"phantasmic",
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"phantom",
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"pretend",
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"unreal",
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"visionary"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193712",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"imaginary number":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a complex number (such as 2 + 3 i ) in which the coefficient of the imaginary unit is not zero":[
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"\u2014 compare pure imaginary"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Because no real number x satisfies the equation x2+ 1 = 0, mathematicians built a new number system\u2014now known as the complex numbers\u2014by adding an imaginary number i and imposing the stipulation that i2 + 1= 0. \u2014 Emily Riehl, Scientific American , 17 Sep. 2021",
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"Math has many important constants that give the discipline structure, like pi and i, the imaginary number equal to the square root of -1. \u2014 Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics , 2 Mar. 2021",
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"That\u2019s an appropriate label, because an imaginary number consists of the square root of a negative number, which by definition does not exist. \u2014 John Horgan, Scientific American , 7 Jan. 2021",
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"The wave function has embedded within it an imaginary number . \u2014 John Horgan, Scientific American , 7 Jan. 2021",
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"Each of these energy levels, En, corresponds to a zero of the form Zn = \u00bd + iEn, which has a real part equal to \u00bd and an imaginary part formed by multiplying En by the imaginary number i. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 4 Apr. 2017",
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"The symmetries of these matrices usually guarantee that imaginary numbers cancel out and the eigenvalues are real, so that these matrices make sense as descriptions of physical systems. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 4 Apr. 2017",
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"If imaginary numbers have always seemed strange to you, prepare for a change in perspective. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 14 Feb. 2019",
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"For example, the solutions to x5 = 1 are five points on a circle when plotted onto a graph comprised of real numbers along one axis and imaginary numbers on the other. \u2014 Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American , 20 Mar. 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1798, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231643",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"imaginary part":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the part of a complex number (such as 3i in 2 + 3i ) that has the imaginary unit as a factor":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The new paper shows that treating the system as real requires introducing extra information that usually resides in the imaginary part of the wave function. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 3 Mar. 2021",
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"In this solution, known as the Argand (or complex) plane, the location of every point is the sum of a real part for its horizontal distance and an imaginary part for its vertical distance from the origin. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 14 Feb. 2019",
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"Complex numbers are made up of a real part and an imaginary part . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Oct. 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1747, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092724",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"imaginary unit":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the positive square root of minus 1 denoted by i or + \u221a-1":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The introduction of this one new non-real number \u2014 i, the imaginary unit \u2014 launched an entirely new mathematical world to explore. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Oct. 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1911, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164703",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"imagination":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": ability to confront and deal with a problem : resourcefulness":[
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"use your imagination and get us out of here"
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],
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": creative ability":[],
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": fanciful or empty assumption":[],
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": the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality":[],
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": the thinking or active mind : interest":[
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"stories that fired the imagination"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"You can find a solution if you use a little imagination .",
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"The author does not tell us what happens to the characters. We have to use our imagination .",
|
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"He's a competent writer, but he lacks imagination .",
|
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"Is it just my imagination , or is it getting warm in here",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Competition among these firms to outpace one another has driven rapid AI advancements and led to increasingly splashy demos that have captured the public imagination and drawn attention to the technology. \u2014 Karen Hao And Miles Kruppa, WSJ , 29 June 2022",
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"Among fans, these screener calls fulfill a desire for flexibility, efficiency, and control in dating\u2014a field that, in the cultural imagination , tends to be dominated by spontaneity and chance. \u2014 Lora Kelley, The Atlantic , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"Self-driving cars have been in the public imagination for a century, but their reality has only emerged in recent years following billions of dollars of investment, public policy efforts, and technological innovation. \u2014 Roslyn Layton, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
|
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"Iowa has always held an outsize place in the national political imagination . \u2014 Ben Jacobs, The New Republic , 28 June 2022",
|
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"Since 1748, when the first excavations began, the ancient city of Pompeii has captured the popular imagination as a testament to the arbitrariness of nature and the fragility of humankind. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
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"In the process, wellies secured their place in the popular imagination . \u2014 CNN , 23 June 2022",
|
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"Even now, nostalgia remains a pitiable condition in the popular imagination \u2014not dangerous or life-threatening, but sentimental and backward-looking. \u2014 Eula Biss, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
|
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"Thus ends one of the uglier high-profile civil trials in recent times \u2013 the case captured the public imagination in a way that prompted people to vehemently take sides. \u2014 Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English ymaginacioun, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French ymaginacion, borrowed from Latin im\u0101gin\u0101ti\u014dn-, im\u0101gin\u0101ti\u014d, from im\u0101gin\u0101r\u012b \"to imagine \" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d, suffix of verbal action":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"i-\u02ccma-j\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n",
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"im-\u02ccaj-\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"contrivance",
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"creativity",
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"fancy",
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"fantasy",
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"phantasy",
|
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"ideation",
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"imaginativeness",
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"invention",
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"inventiveness",
|
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"originality"
|
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202810",
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
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},
|
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"imaginational":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": of, relating to, involving, caused by, or suggestive of the imagination":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"-shn\u0259l",
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"-sh\u0259n\u1d4al"
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201315",
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"imaginative":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"uncreative",
|
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"unimaginative",
|
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"uninventive",
|
|
"unoriginal"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": devoid of truth : false":[],
|
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": given to imagining : having a lively imagination":[],
|
|
": of, relating to, or characterized by imagination":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She wrote an imaginative story about life on the planet Venus.",
|
|
"The restaurant's menu is quite imaginative .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Amazing Stories has Steven Spielberg as an executive producer \u2014 and features today's most imaginative filmmakers, directors and writers in an exciting sci-fi/fantasy anthology. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"Some of the boldest and most imaginative theater is created by the area\u2019s fringe troupes, and after a pandemic pause, some favorites are returning over the next few weeks. \u2014 Terry Byrne, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Composed of curious and frequently colorful creations, the Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades collection found the historic maison collaborating with several of the world\u2019s most imaginative designers. \u2014 David Graver, Vogue , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Sussman, who had a sometimes wildly imaginative analytic mind, was not much interested in the predictable, if sometimes sensational events that consume so much of the average newspaper\u2019s editorial resources and newsprint. \u2014 Joshua Benton, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"The book features page after page of the most imaginative renderings of life being coaxed from the ground by little children emerging from their subterranean homes. \u2014 cleveland , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The disappointing follow-up to his most imaginative effort to date isn\u2019t a total loss thanks to Uma Thurman\u2019 all-in performance and a handful of scenes that carried the momentum started in the superior first volume. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 27 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"This flybridge is one of the most imaginative on the water. \u2014 Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report , 18 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Claire Chase, perhaps the instrument\u2019s most imaginative living advocate, is bent on tapping its primal power. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2021"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English ymaginatif \"employing mental images, curious, inventive,\" borrowed from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French, \"of the imagination, having a strong imagination, shrewd,\" borrowed from Medieval Latin im\u0101gin\u0101t\u012bvus \"of the imagination,\" from Latin im\u0101gin\u0101tus, past participle of im\u0101gin\u0101r\u012b \"to imagine \" + -\u012bvus -ive":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"i-\u02c8ma-j\u0259-n\u0259-tiv",
|
|
"-n\u0259-",
|
|
"-\u02c8ma-j\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101-",
|
|
"i-\u02c8maj-n\u0259-tiv"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"clever",
|
|
"creative",
|
|
"ingenious",
|
|
"innovational",
|
|
"innovative",
|
|
"innovatory",
|
|
"inventive",
|
|
"original",
|
|
"originative",
|
|
"Promethean"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185826",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
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"imaginativeness":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
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"uncreative",
|
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"unimaginative",
|
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"uninventive",
|
|
"unoriginal"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": devoid of truth : false":[],
|
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": given to imagining : having a lively imagination":[],
|
|
": of, relating to, or characterized by imagination":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She wrote an imaginative story about life on the planet Venus.",
|
|
"The restaurant's menu is quite imaginative .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Amazing Stories has Steven Spielberg as an executive producer \u2014 and features today's most imaginative filmmakers, directors and writers in an exciting sci-fi/fantasy anthology. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"Some of the boldest and most imaginative theater is created by the area\u2019s fringe troupes, and after a pandemic pause, some favorites are returning over the next few weeks. \u2014 Terry Byrne, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Composed of curious and frequently colorful creations, the Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades collection found the historic maison collaborating with several of the world\u2019s most imaginative designers. \u2014 David Graver, Vogue , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Sussman, who had a sometimes wildly imaginative analytic mind, was not much interested in the predictable, if sometimes sensational events that consume so much of the average newspaper\u2019s editorial resources and newsprint. \u2014 Joshua Benton, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"The book features page after page of the most imaginative renderings of life being coaxed from the ground by little children emerging from their subterranean homes. \u2014 cleveland , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The disappointing follow-up to his most imaginative effort to date isn\u2019t a total loss thanks to Uma Thurman\u2019 all-in performance and a handful of scenes that carried the momentum started in the superior first volume. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 27 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"This flybridge is one of the most imaginative on the water. \u2014 Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report , 18 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Claire Chase, perhaps the instrument\u2019s most imaginative living advocate, is bent on tapping its primal power. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English ymaginatif \"employing mental images, curious, inventive,\" borrowed from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French, \"of the imagination, having a strong imagination, shrewd,\" borrowed from Medieval Latin im\u0101gin\u0101t\u012bvus \"of the imagination,\" from Latin im\u0101gin\u0101tus, past participle of im\u0101gin\u0101r\u012b \"to imagine \" + -\u012bvus -ive":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"i-\u02c8ma-j\u0259-n\u0259-tiv",
|
|
"-n\u0259-",
|
|
"-\u02c8ma-j\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101-",
|
|
"i-\u02c8maj-n\u0259-tiv"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"clever",
|
|
"creative",
|
|
"ingenious",
|
|
"innovational",
|
|
"innovative",
|
|
"innovatory",
|
|
"inventive",
|
|
"original",
|
|
"originative",
|
|
"Promethean"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-175032",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"imaginator":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin imaginat us (past participle of imaginari ) + English -or":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259\u0307\u02c8maj\u0259\u02ccn\u0101t\u0259(r)"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053302",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"imagine":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": believe sense 3":[],
|
|
": plan , scheme":[],
|
|
": suppose , guess":[
|
|
"I imagine it will rain"
|
|
],
|
|
": to form a mental image of (something not present)":[
|
|
"imagine accidents at every turn"
|
|
],
|
|
": to form a notion of without sufficient basis : fancy":[
|
|
"imagines himself to be a charming conversationalist"
|
|
],
|
|
": to use the imagination":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a writer who has imagined an entire world of amazing creatures",
|
|
"He asked us to imagine a world without poverty or war.",
|
|
"It's hard for me to imagine having children.",
|
|
"He was imagining all sorts of terrible things happening.",
|
|
"\u201cWhat was that sound",
|
|
"I imagine it will snow at some point today.",
|
|
"It's difficult to imagine that these changes will really be effective.",
|
|
"The company will do better next year, I imagine .",
|
|
"It was worse than they had imagined .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Okay, imagine there\u2019s a new Disney-esque project in the pipeline. \u2014 Jeff Ewing, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"So, imagine adopting a family of eight siblings from another country. \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"Now imagine Iowa and Nebraska or Minnesota and Wisconsin playing Thanksgiving week not for a trip to Indianapolis but to avoid relegation to the lower tier. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"Just imagine spinning around on the dance floor in the fun and flouncy number. \u2014 Alex Warner, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"This dream sequence from the CW hit Gossip Girl has Lively's character, Serena van der Woodson, imagine herself as the actress while the show\u2019s male leads dance beside her. \u2014 Swarna Gowtham, Town & Country , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Now imagine diving into that singles dating pool after 30 years out of the game. \u2014 Wayne And Wanda, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"So imagine being able to teach classes through the metaverse and teaching movement and just being able to have fun. \u2014 Kourtney Pope, refinery29.com , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"Now imagine all that clarity magnified eight times. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English ymagynen, borrowed from Anglo-French ymaginer, borrowed from Latin im\u0101gin\u0101r\u012b, verbal derivative of im\u0101gin-, im\u0101g\u014d \"representation, semblance, image entry 1 \"":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"i-\u02c8ma-j\u0259n",
|
|
"im-\u02c8aj-\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for imagine think , conceive , imagine , fancy , realize , envisage , envision mean to form an idea of. think implies the entrance of an idea into one's mind with or without deliberate consideration or reflection. I just thought of a good joke conceive suggests the forming and bringing forth and usually developing of an idea, plan, or design. conceived of a new marketing approach imagine stresses a visualization. imagine you're at the beach fancy suggests an imagining often unrestrained by reality but spurred by desires. fancied himself a super athlete realize stresses a grasping of the significance of what is conceived or imagined. realized the enormity of the task ahead envisage and envision imply a conceiving or imagining that is especially clear or detailed. envisaged a totally computerized operation envisioned a cure for the disease",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"conceit",
|
|
"conceive",
|
|
"conjure (up)",
|
|
"dream",
|
|
"envisage",
|
|
"envision",
|
|
"fancy",
|
|
"fantasize",
|
|
"fantasy",
|
|
"feature",
|
|
"ideate",
|
|
"image",
|
|
"picture",
|
|
"see",
|
|
"vision",
|
|
"visualize"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193035",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"imagine that":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-183504",
|
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"type":[
|
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"idiom"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"imagined":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": believe sense 3":[],
|
|
": plan , scheme":[],
|
|
": suppose , guess":[
|
|
"I imagine it will rain"
|
|
],
|
|
": to form a mental image of (something not present)":[
|
|
"imagine accidents at every turn"
|
|
],
|
|
": to form a notion of without sufficient basis : fancy":[
|
|
"imagines himself to be a charming conversationalist"
|
|
],
|
|
": to use the imagination":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a writer who has imagined an entire world of amazing creatures",
|
|
"He asked us to imagine a world without poverty or war.",
|
|
"It's hard for me to imagine having children.",
|
|
"He was imagining all sorts of terrible things happening.",
|
|
"\u201cWhat was that sound",
|
|
"I imagine it will snow at some point today.",
|
|
"It's difficult to imagine that these changes will really be effective.",
|
|
"The company will do better next year, I imagine .",
|
|
"It was worse than they had imagined .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Okay, imagine there\u2019s a new Disney-esque project in the pipeline. \u2014 Jeff Ewing, Forbes , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"So, imagine adopting a family of eight siblings from another country. \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"Now imagine Iowa and Nebraska or Minnesota and Wisconsin playing Thanksgiving week not for a trip to Indianapolis but to avoid relegation to the lower tier. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"Just imagine spinning around on the dance floor in the fun and flouncy number. \u2014 Alex Warner, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"This dream sequence from the CW hit Gossip Girl has Lively's character, Serena van der Woodson, imagine herself as the actress while the show\u2019s male leads dance beside her. \u2014 Swarna Gowtham, Town & Country , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Now imagine diving into that singles dating pool after 30 years out of the game. \u2014 Wayne And Wanda, Anchorage Daily News , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"So imagine being able to teach classes through the metaverse and teaching movement and just being able to have fun. \u2014 Kourtney Pope, refinery29.com , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"Now imagine all that clarity magnified eight times. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
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|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English ymagynen, borrowed from Anglo-French ymaginer, borrowed from Latin im\u0101gin\u0101r\u012b, verbal derivative of im\u0101gin-, im\u0101g\u014d \"representation, semblance, image entry 1 \"":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"i-\u02c8ma-j\u0259n",
|
|
"im-\u02c8aj-\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for imagine think , conceive , imagine , fancy , realize , envisage , envision mean to form an idea of. think implies the entrance of an idea into one's mind with or without deliberate consideration or reflection. I just thought of a good joke conceive suggests the forming and bringing forth and usually developing of an idea, plan, or design. conceived of a new marketing approach imagine stresses a visualization. imagine you're at the beach fancy suggests an imagining often unrestrained by reality but spurred by desires. fancied himself a super athlete realize stresses a grasping of the significance of what is conceived or imagined. realized the enormity of the task ahead envisage and envision imply a conceiving or imagining that is especially clear or detailed. envisaged a totally computerized operation envisioned a cure for the disease",
|
|
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|
|
"conceit",
|
|
"conceive",
|
|
"conjure (up)",
|
|
"dream",
|
|
"envisage",
|
|
"envision",
|
|
"fancy",
|
|
"fantasize",
|
|
"fantasy",
|
|
"feature",
|
|
"ideate",
|
|
"image",
|
|
"picture",
|
|
"see",
|
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"vision",
|
|
"visualize"
|
|
],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104501",
|
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"type":[
|
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"imaginer":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": one that imagines":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from imaginen + -er":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-j(\u0259\u0307)n\u0259(r)"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064204",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"imaginings":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": products of the imagination : thoughts , images":[
|
|
"formless imaginings of danger and terror",
|
|
"\u2014 Jack Shaefer"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Those concerns, first voiced by anonymous sources to ESPN on the day of the Super Bowl, are real, not the imaginings of media-seeking page views and subscribers. \u2014 Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic , 25 June 2022",
|
|
"Douglas\u2019s repulsed imaginings drew on at least two distinct senses of privacy. \u2014 Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
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"In her singular imaginings , mermaids swim up to watch TV news about their planet, ships play tag with giant squid, and humans get up close and personal with a purple narwhal with blue wings. \u2014 New York Times , 1 June 2022",
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"The imaginings of acting are temporary; when the show is over, the actor returns to the real world, and knows the difference. \u2014 Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
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"The re- imaginings of the songs are courtesy of St. Vincent, TOKiMONSTA and Honey Dijon. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 18 Jan. 2022",
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"For much of the rest of the film, except for occasional cutaways to young Stan\u2019s imaginings , the adult Stan (voiced by Jack Black) narrates what really happened. \u2014 Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor , 31 Mar. 2022",
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"The question is, essentially, whether or not our own imaginings of luxury can still consider Black women luxurious as our authentic selves. \u2014 Jihan Forbes, Allure , 12 Feb. 2022",
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"Twin sisters running around re-creating their imaginings as plays, painting visions of their world in watercolor, and for young Amanda, writing novellas and poems in her notebook. \u2014 Allure , 11 Feb. 2022"
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"Middle English ymagynynges, plural of the gerund of ymaginen \"to imagine \"":""
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Slowing down the story is a way to capture some of the imagism that made the book so distinctive, to give the viewer time to appreciate the sights and sounds that mark the world of the restaurant as a seductive space. \u2014 Alexis Soloski, New York Times , 24 Apr. 2018",
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"Slowing down the story is a way to capture some of the imagism that made the book so distinctive, to give the viewer time to appreciate the sights and sounds that mark the world of the restaurant as a seductive space. \u2014 Alexis Soloski, New York Times , 24 Apr. 2018"
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": an insect in its final, adult, sexually mature, and typically winged state":[]
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Other species, such as grasshoppers and dragonflies, experience incomplete, or simple, metamorphosis, which involves three life stages\u2014egg, larva or nymph, and adult or imago . \u2014 Liz Langley, National Geographic , 11 Aug. 2020",
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"Newbell, who is Black, had spoken about imago Dei -- the idea that all humans, of all races, are made in the image and likeness of God. \u2014 Daniel Burke, CNN , 10 July 2020"
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"borrowed from New Latin im\u0101g\u014d, going back to Latin im\u0101gin-, im\u0101g\u014d \"representation, semblance, image entry 1 \"":""
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": the optical counterpart of an object produced by an optical device (such as a lens or mirror) or an electronic device":[],
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": a mental picture or impression of something":[
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": a mental conception held in common by members of a group and symbolic of a basic attitude and orientation":[
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"a disorderly courtroom can seriously tarnish a community's image of justice",
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"\u2014 Herbert Brownell"
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": a popular conception (as of a person, institution, or nation) projected especially through the mass media":[
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"promoting a corporate image of brotherly love and concern",
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"\u2014 R. C. Buck"
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],
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": exact likeness : semblance":[
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"God created man in his own image",
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"\u2014 Genesis 1:27 (Revised Standard Version)"
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],
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": a person strikingly like another person":[
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"she is the image of her mother"
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],
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": a tangible or visible representation : incarnation":[
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"the image of filial devotion"
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": figure of speech":[],
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": a set of values given by a mathematical function (such as a homomorphism) that corresponds to a particular subset of the domain":[],
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": to describe or portray in language especially in a vivid manner":[],
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": reflect , mirror":[],
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": to make appear : project":[],
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": to make a disk image of":[
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"Many computer forensics programs now include the option of imaging a suspect drive.",
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"\u2014 Yvonne Jewkes"
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]
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"\u02c8im-ij"
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],
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"carbon",
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"carbon copy",
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"clone",
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"counterpart",
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"doppelg\u00e4nger",
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"doppelganger",
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"double",
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"duplicate",
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"duplication",
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"facsimile",
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"fetch",
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"likeness",
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"look-alike",
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"match",
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"mirror image",
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"picture",
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"replica",
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"ringer",
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"spit",
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"spitting image",
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"twin"
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],
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"depict",
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"picture",
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"portray",
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"represent"
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],
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"She studied her image in the mirror.",
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"The kids sat staring at the images on the TV screen.",
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"painters capturing images of war",
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"black-and-white images of the city",
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"His poem evokes images of the sea and warm summer days.",
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"He is trying hard to improve his image .",
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"The law suit has negatively affected the company's public image .",
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"a politician who cares more about image than about telling the truth",
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"Verb",
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"in the painting Sacagawea is imaged as an intrepid woman pointing the way for Lewis and Clark",
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"the brochure images a vacation at the resort in language that makes you want to make a reservation this instant",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"King Leopold II, whose name and image are omnipresent in Brussels, reigned over the deaths of millions of Congolese people during a rule that was notably cruel even for the time. \u2014 Amy Cheng, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
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"Day already said the top players could earn seven figures annually from name, image and likeness opportunities. \u2014 Nathan Baird, cleveland , 1 July 2022",
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"The name, image and likeness endorsement revenue benefits, for Trojans and Bruins who can now market themselves across the country, will be outrageous. \u2014 Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022",
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"The current frenzy has given rise to serious concerns about recruiting practices and competitive balance and, in turn, questions about where NIL compensation \u2014 short for name, image and likeness \u2014 goes from here. \u2014 Eric Olson, Chron , 30 June 2022",
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"The introduction of compensation for college athletes from name, image and likeness deals has opened up new opportunities \u2014 and most of them are being taken advantage of by men. \u2014 Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star , 30 June 2022",
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"Bueckers signed a name, image and likeness deal with Gatorade in November, becoming the company\u2019s first NCAA partner. \u2014 Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant , 28 June 2022",
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"Now, athletes can monetize their name, image and likeness. \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 June 2022",
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"This means creating a coherent name, image and likeness strategy, continuing to add resources to the football program and finalizing its transition to the Big 12\u2032s revenue-sharing model. \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"The team was able to image the umbilical scar, which had faded over time, by seeing a change in the pattern of skin and scales where the dino\u2019s belly button would be. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 June 2022",
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"These longer, redder wavelengths than visible light means Webb can image clouds of gas and pierce through the dust that obscures, for example, the inner regions of most nebulae and a lot of stars in both our own and distant galaxies. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
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"Similar laser technology was used by the National Park Service to image brown bears in Katmai National Park for Fat Bear Week, giving Mangipane and her colleagues the idea to adapt the laser imaging system to other bears in the wild. \u2014 oregonlive , 3 June 2022",
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"The technique gives researchers the ability to image a large object quickly and cheaply extract useful information about that object. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"There would be no way for a single telescope to image more than one planet, or one star system with several interesting worlds, at a time. \u2014 Allison Gasparini, Scientific American , 25 May 2022",
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"Using tools on the surface, researchers were able to image far below the ice. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 7 May 2022",
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"The company can image Ukraine daily, Mr. Greenley said, and the images can be ready to view in some cases in less than 15 minutes. \u2014 Robert Wall, WSJ , 1 May 2022",
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"What if industrial designers could see inside a bicycle or a running shoe with the same precision that doctors can image their patients\u2019 internal organs"
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],
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"Middle English, \"effigy, figure, mental impression of something observed, reflection, resemblance,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, shortened from imagene, borrowed from Latin im\u0101gin-, im\u0101g\u014d \"representation, reflection, apparition, semblance, copy, visible form,\" from im\u0101- (probably the stem of an otherwise unattested verb *im\u0101r\u012b with the same base as imit\u0101r\u012b \"to follow as a pattern, copy\") + -gin-, -g\u014d, denominal or deverbal noun suffix \u2014 more at imitate":"Noun",
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"Middle English imagen, in part derivative of image image entry 1 , in part borrowed from Middle French ymagier \"to imagine,\" derivative of image":"Verb"
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},
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 7":"Noun",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Verb"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173125"
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": a camera tube resembling the iconoscope and having the electronic image focused electromagnetically through an aperture and voltages that are subsequently amplified and transmitted as television-picture signals being produced by electron multiplication":[]
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