image
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from *im, root of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
image (plural images)
- An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
- 2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:
- Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
- 2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy)
- Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
- (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
- The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2*x.
- (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
- The image of this step function is the set of integers.
Synonyms [edit]
- (representation): picture
- (mental picture): idea
- (something mapped to): value
- (subset of the codomain): range
Derived terms [edit]
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Descendants [edit]
- German: Image
Translations [edit]
graphical representation
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mental picture
computing: file
characteristic as perceived by others
math: something mapped to by a function
math: subset of codomain
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Verb [edit]
image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)
- (transitive) To represent symbolically
- (transitive) To reflect, mirror
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, chapter 2, St. Edmundsbury:
- […] we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own, imaging our own, but all unconscious of us; to whom we for the time are become as spirits and invisible!.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, chapter 2, St. Edmundsbury:
- (transitive) To create an image of.
- (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
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External links [edit]
- image in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- image in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin imago (“a copy, likeness, image”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /i.maʒ/, X-SAMPA: /i.maZ/
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Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -aʒ
- Homophones: images, imagent
- Hyphenation: i‧mage
Noun [edit]
image f (plural images)
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Verb [edit]
image
- first-person singular present indicative of imager
- third-person singular present indicative of imager
- first-person singular present subjunctive of imager
- third-person singular present subjunctive of imager
- second-person singular imperative of imager
Anagrams [edit]
Norwegian Bokmål [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
image m and n
- image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)
Inflection [edit]
Inflection of image
Norwegian Nynorsk [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
image m and n
- image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)
Inflection [edit]
Inflection of image
Old French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin imāgō.
Noun [edit]
image f (oblique plural images, nominative singular image, nominative plural images)
- sight (something which one sees)
- image (pictorial representation)
- image (mental or imagined representation)
- image (likeness)
Descendants [edit]
References [edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English nouns
- en:Computing
- en:Mathematics
- English verbs
- en:Visualization
- French terms derived from Latin
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Film
- French verb forms
- French nouns with irregular gender
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål borrowed terms
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk borrowed terms
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns