IMAGERY


Meaning of IMAGERY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

visual

The first is that it consists in visual imagery .

Soon, Louisa was using her strong capacity for visual imagery to compensate for her difficulty in remembering words and sentences.

Empirical work will be carried out to develop and standardise a new research technique using visual imagery to probe beliefs about pain.

Others who joined in sponsoring the law said it could help curb pinups and other visual imagery that demeans women.

If Jarman comes dangerously close in the last to propagating the politics of ennui, his visual imagery is anything but predictable.

The album is filled with folky, pop-inflected tunes, characterized by visual imagery , hope and passion.

■ NOUN

satellite

Derived from satellite imagery at comparatively low resolution, predicted yields for different crops in different nation states become of commercial value.

The visual evidence accumulates in the courtroom without argument: maps, video footage, satellite imagery and photographs.

Thematic maps from satellite imagery represent an important source of data, particularly in third-world countries.

■ VERB

use

Tennyson uses imagery combined with run-on lines to create a lyrical emotion.

Do not use any aversive imagery at this time, and explain this to your client in advance.

Instead, try using affirmations and imagery .

Empirical work will be carried out to develop and standardise a new research technique using visual imagery to probe beliefs about pain.

This style uses metaphors, imagery and colourful descriptive language.

But when Christians use imagery like this they betray their misunderstanding of apocalyptic symbolism.

Indeed, without the use of a computer it would not be possible to use much remotely-sensed imagery at all.

And in so far as we can use gender imagery for these things the Logos is a masculine principle ....

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

religious imagery

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

However, we now understand that the imagery of the cutting edge is so much stronger and powerful than we believed.

Invitations to meditate, his vast colour-soaked canvases are memorable for the sensations evoked in the viewer rather than for their imagery .

It dutifully underscores the mosaic imagery of flat, two-dimensional space and silhouetted figures.

The imagery is being used in the preparation of a hydrogeological map of the region.

The black stage provides dramatic imagery and acting charisma for both our theaters and our films.

The first is that it consists in visual imagery .

This extract is reproduced courtesy of Routledge and is take from Chapter 8, Towards a disability imagery currency.

Visual imagery bridges barriers across differences of language and customs.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.