image

See also Image, and imagé

English

Wikipedia

An image that represents image files

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from *im, root of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɪmɪdʒ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪmɪdʒ

Noun

image (plural images)

1. 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.

2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
3. (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.

4. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
5. (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.

6. (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

• (representation): picture
• (mental picture): idea
• (something mapped to): value
• (subset of the codomain): range

Derived terms

imagery inverse image macroimage mental image microimage

mirror image preimage real image reimage spitting image virtual image

Related terms

• imaginary
• imaginable
• imagination
• imaginative
• imagine

Descendants

• German: Image

Translations

graphical representation

• Arabic: صورة (ar) (suura(t)) f
• Armenian: պատկեր (hy) (patker)
• Azeri: şəkil (az)
• Breton: skeudenn (br)
• Catalan: imatge (ca) f
• Czech: obraz (cs) m
• Danish: billede (da)
• Dutch: beeld (nl) n, beeltenis (nl) f, plaatje (nl) n
• Esperanto: bildo (eo)
• Finnish: kuva (fi)
• French: image (fr) f
• Galician: imaxe (gl) f
• German: Bild (de) n
• Greek: εικόνα (el) (ikóna) f, απεικόνιση (el) (apikónisi) f, απείκασμα (el) (apíkasma) n, πανομοιότυπο (el) (panomiótipo)
• Haitian Creole: imaj
• Hebrew: תמונה (he) (temuna) f
• Hungarian: kép (hu)
• Icelandic: mynd (is) f
• Irish: íomhá (ga) f
• Italian: immagine (it) f
• Japanese: 像 (ja) (zō), 肖像 (ja) (shōzō), イメージ (ja) (imēji)
• Latgalian: atvaigs
• Latvian: attēls (lv) m

• Nahuatl: ixiptli (nah)
• Navajo: eʼelyaaígíí
• Persian: تصویر (fa) (tasvir), نگاره (fa) (negâre)
• Polish: obraz (pl) m
• Portuguese: imagem (pt) f, figura (pt) f, fotografia (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਤਸਵੀਰ (pa) (tasvīr)

  Shahmukhi: تصویر (pnb) (tasvīr)

• Romanian: imagine (ro) f, poză (ro) f
• Russian: образ (ru) (óbraz) m, изображение (ru) (izobražénije) n
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: màgini

• Scottish Gaelic: dealbh m and f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: слика (sh) f

  Roman: slika (sh) f

• Slovene: slika (sl) f
• Spanish: imagen (es) f
• Swedish: bild (sv) c
• Tagalog: imahen (tl)
• Tajik: тасвир (tg) (tasvir)
• Ukrainian: образ (uk) (óbraz) m
• Uyghur: رەسىم (ug) (resim)
• Yiddish: בילד (yi) (bild)

mental picture

• Armenian: պատկեր (hy) (patker)
• Czech: představa (cs) f
• Dutch: beeld (nl) n, perceptie (nl) f
• Finnish: kuva (fi), mielikuva (fi)
• German: Bild (de) n
• Greek: εικόνα (el) (ikóna) f
• Hungarian: kép (hu)
• Icelandic: mynd (is) f
• Japanese: 心象 (ja) (shinshō)
• Persian: نگاره (fa) (negāra(e))

• Russian: образ (ru) (óbraz) m, облик (ru) (óblik) m
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: màgini

• Scottish Gaelic: dealbh m and f
• Serbo-Croatian: predstava (sh)
• Slovene: podoba (sl) f
• Swedish: bild (sv) c
• Turkish: görüntü (tr)
• Ukrainian: образ (uk) (óbraz) m

computing: file

• Belarusian: выява (vyjava) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 图片 (cmn) (túpiàn)

• Dutch: beeldkopie f
• Finnish: vedos (fi)
• German: Image (de) n, Speicherabbild (de) n
• Greek: εικόνα (el) (ikóna)
• Hungarian: kép (hu)

• Irish: íomhá (ga) f
• Japanese: イメージ (ja) (imēji), 画像 (ja) (gazō)
• Navajo: eʼelyaaígíí
• Russian: изображение (ru) (izobražénije) n
• Ukrainian: образ (uk) (óbraz) m

characteristic as perceived by others

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印象 (cmn) (yìnxiàng)

• Czech: image (cs)
• Dutch: beeld (nl) n, imago (nl) n
• Finnish: mielikuva (fi), imago (fi)
• German: Image (de) n, Erscheinungsbild (de) n
• Greek: εικόνα (el) (ikóna) f, περιωπή (el) (periopí) f
• Hungarian: arculat (hu), imázs (hu)
• Japanese: 印象 (ja) (inshō)

• Portuguese: imagem (pt) f
• Romanian: imagine (ro) f
• Russian: образ (ru) (óbraz) m, облик (ru) (óblik) m, имидж (ru) (ímidž) m
• Serbo-Croatian: imidž (sh) m
• Spanish: imagen (es) f
• Swedish: image (sv) c
• Ukrainian: образ (uk) (óbraz) m

math: something mapped to by a function

• Czech: obraz (cs) m
• Finnish: kuvaus (fi)
• German: Bild (de) n

• Irish: íomhá (ga) f
• Japanese: 像 (ja) (zō), イメージ (ja) (imēji)
• Russian: образ (ru) (óbraz) m

math: subset of codomain

• Finnish: kuvausjoukko (fi)

Verb

image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)

1. (transitive) To represent symbolically
2. (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!.

3. (transitive) To create an image of.
4. (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Translations

to represent symbolically

• Finnish: kuvata (fi)

to reflect

• Finnish: heijastaa (fi)

to create an image of

• Finnish: kuvata (fi); kuvantaa (fi) (through technical means)

computing: to create a backup copy

• Sindhi: عڪس (sd)

External links

• image in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• image in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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French

Etymology

From Latin imago (“a copy, likeness, image”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /i.maʒ/, X-SAMPA: /i.maZ/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʒ
• Homophones: images, imagent
• Hyphenation: i‧mage

Noun

image f (plural images)

1. picture, image
2. (TV, film) frame

Synonyms

• métaphore
• reflet
• symbole
• vision

Related terms

• imager
• imagerie
• imaginer

Verb

image

1. first-person singular present indicative of imager
2. third-person singular present indicative of imager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of imager
5. second-person singular imperative of imager

Anagrams

• magie

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from English image

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪmɪdʂ/, X-SAMPA: /ImIds`/
• Rhymes: -ɪdʂ

Noun

image m and n

1. image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)

Inflection

    Inflection of image

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	image	imagen	imager	imagene
Bokmål n	image	imaget	image/	imaga/imagene

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowing from English image

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪmɪdʂ/, X-SAMPA: /ImIds`/
• Rhymes: -ɪdʂ

Noun

image m and n

1. image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)

Inflection

    Inflection of image

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	image	imagen	imager	imagene
Bokmål n	image	imageet	image	imagea/imageene

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Old French

Etymology

Latin imāgō.

Noun

image f (oblique plural images, nominative singular image, nominative plural images)

1. sight (something which one sees)
2. image (pictorial representation)
3. image (mental or imagined representation)
4. image (likeness)

Descendants

• English: image
• French: image

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881)