image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪm.ɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪˈmed͡ʒ/
Forms: form: images
Etymology: From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.
Senses: examples: text: The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
text: The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: ….”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, pages 77–78, column 2:
text: 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.
ref: 2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
glosses: A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
examples: text: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: A mental picture of something not real or not present.
glosses: A statue or idol.
examples: text: Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
glosses: A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
examples: text: The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The value a function maps some argument to.
examples: text: The image of this step function is the set of integers.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
examples: text: The face of things a frightful image bears.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Show; appearance; cast.
Synonyms: sense: representation
word: picture
sense: mental picture
word: idea
sense: something mapped to
word: value
sense: subset of the codomain
word: range
Hyponyms: digital image
hybrid image
inverse image
macroimage
mental image
microimage
mirror image
real image
spitting image
virtual image
Derived terms: afterimage
after image journal
an image is worth a thousand words
before image journal
bioimage
body image
brand image
coimage
controlling image
counterimage
eigenimage
enemy image
five-image
fluoroimage
four-image
ghost image
global image
golden image
graven image
hero image
holoimage
imageability
imageable
imageboard
image capture
image consultant
image film
image histogram
imageless
imagelike
image macro
image magic
imagemaker
image map
imagemapped
imagemapping
image matting
imageology
image processing
image rectification
imagery
image search
image sensor
imagesetter
imagesetting
image space
image tube
imagism
imagist
imagistic
lenticular image
macroimage
microimage
mirror-image twin
neuroimage
nonimage
one-image
orthoimage
phosphoimage
photoimage
preimage
pseudoimage
public image
Purkinje image
radar image
reaction image
reimage
reverse image search
satellite image
self-image
self image
six-image
spittin' image
stereoimage
subimage
three-image
two-image
vector image
waxen image
Related terms: imaginable
imaginary
imagination
imaginative
imagine