illustrator

an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.) ;

illustriousness

the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence ;

illyria

an uncertain region on the east shore of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo-European people once lived ;

illyrian

a minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast ;

ilmen

a lake in northwestern Russia; drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga ;

ilmenite

a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium ;

ilo

the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor ;

ilosone

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 ;

ilya ehrenberg

Russian novelist (1891-1967) ;

ilya grigorievich ehrenberg

Russian novelist (1891-1967) ;

ilya ilich metchnikov

Russian bacteriologist in France who formulated the theory of phagocytosis (1845-1916) ;

image

a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" ; a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" ; 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" ; (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty" ; an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" ; a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" ; language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense ; someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" ;

image breaker

a destroyer of images used in religious worship ;

image compression

the compression of graphics for storage or transmission ;

image orthicon

a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons ;

image scanner

an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer ;

imagery

the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" ;

imaginary

(mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 ;

imaginary being

a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction ;

imaginary creature

a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction ;

imaginary number

(mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 ;

imaginary part

the part of a complex number that has the square root of -1 as a factor ;

imaginary part of a complex number

the part of a complex number that has the square root of -1 as a factor ;

imaginary place

a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings ;

imagination

the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" ; the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource" ; the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" ;

imagination image

a mental image produced by the imagination ;

imaginative comparison

the kind of mental comparison that is expressed in similes or metaphors or allegories ;

imaginativeness

the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" ;

imaging

(medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body ; the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" ;

imagism

a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery ;

imago

an adult insect produced after metamorphosis ; (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood ;

imam

(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 ;

imamu amiri baraka

United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934) ;

imaret

a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey ;

imaum

(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 ;

imavate

a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression ;

imbalance

(mathematics) a lack of symmetry ; a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium; "a hormonal imbalance" ;

imbauba

tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems ;

imbecile

a person of subnormal intelligence ;

imbecility

a stupid mistake ; retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot ;