image
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
radio
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: images
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: images
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: imaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: imaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: imaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
pos: noun
examples: The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
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.
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.
They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. […] Although classic science fiction films might wish you to believe otherwise, most insect eyes do not form a complete image in each facet.
gloss: A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
pos: noun
gloss: A mental picture of something not real or not present.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A statue or idol.
pos: noun
gloss: A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
pos: noun
examples: Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
gloss: A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
pos: noun
gloss: The value a function maps some argument to.
pos: noun
examples: The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.
gloss: The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
pos: noun
examples: The image of this step function is the set of integers.
gloss: A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
pos: noun
gloss: Show; appearance; cast.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The face of things a frightful image bears.
gloss: The collection of focus points of light rays coming from a given object.
pos: noun
gloss: To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215,
This Representation of the Terrors which must have attended the Conflict of two such mighty Powers as Jupiter and Neptune, whereby the Elements had been mix’d in Confusion, and the whole Frame of Nature endangered, is imaged in these few Lines with a Nobleness suitable to the Occasion.
[…] his behaviour was, as I had imaged to myself, solemnly devout.
[…] he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely […]
[The road] straggled onward into the mystery of a primeval forest. This hemmed it in so narrowly, and stood so black and dense on either side, and disclosed such imperfect glimpses of the sky above, that, to Hester’s mind, it imaged not amiss the moral wilderness in which she had so long been wandering.
For example, in one use of content analysis, U.S. researchers Victoria Holden, William Holden, and Gary Davis (1997) examined the growing controversy over the racial imaging of indigenous peoples symbolized in sports team nicknames […]
gloss: To reflect, mirror.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: See’st thou yon river, whose translucent wave,
Forth issuing from the darkness, windeth through
The argent streets o’ th’ City, imaging
The soft inversion of her tremulous Domes,
Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born; imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose.
[…]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!
gloss: To create an image of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
He added, in an email to CNN, that “the collection of increasingly large and well curated medical datasets has enabled AI tools to predict genetic mutations from imaging phenotypes reducing the burden of healthcare systems and improving the way we care for patients.” Phenotypes are observable characteristics.
gloss: To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: picture
value
Related words: imaginable
imaginary
imagination
imaginative
imagine
Derived words: 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
unimaged
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: imazh
lang: Albanian
word: duksim
lang: Arabic
word: صُورَة
roman: ṣūra
lang: Armenian
word: պատկեր
roman: patker
lang: Asturian
word: imaxen
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şəkil
lang: Azerbaijani
word: surət
lang: Azerbaijani
word: obraz
lang: Belarusian
word: во́браз
roman: vóbraz
lang: Belarusian
word: выя́ва
roman: vyjáva
lang: Bengali
word: ছবি
roman: chobi
lang: Breton
word: skeudenn
lang: Bulgarian
word: о́браз
roman: óbraz
lang: Bulgarian
word: изображе́ние
roman: izobražénie
lang: Catalan
word: imatge
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 圖片 /图片
roman: tou⁴ pin³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 圖片 /图片
roman: túpiàn
lang: Czech
word: obraz
lang: Danish
word: billede
lang: Dutch
word: beeld
lang: Dutch
word: beeltenis
lang: Dutch
word: plaatje
lang: Egyptian
word: t-w&t-A53
roman: twt
lang: Esperanto
word: bildo
lang: Faroese
word: mynd
lang: Finnish
word: kuva
lang: French
word: image
lang: Galician
word: imaxe
lang: Georgian
word: სურათი
roman: surati
lang: German
word: Bild
lang: German
word: Abbild
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃
roman: frisahts
lang: Greek
word: εικόνα
roman: eikóna
lang: Greek
word: απεικόνιση
roman: apeikónisi
lang: Greek
word: απείκασμα
roman: apeíkasma
lang: Greek
word: πανομοιότυπο
roman: panomoiótypo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: εἰκών
roman: eikṓn
lang: Haitian Creole
word: imaj
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּמוּנָה
roman: tmuná
lang: Hindi
word: चित्र
roman: citra
lang: Hindi
word: तस्वीर
roman: tasvīr
lang: Hindi
word: प्रतिबिम्ब
roman: pratibimb
lang: Hungarian
word: kép
lang: Icelandic
word: mynd
lang: Ido
word: imajo
lang: Indonesian
word: gambar
lang: Irish
word: íomhá
lang: Italian
word: immagine
lang: Japanese
word: 形
roman: katachi
lang: Japanese
word: 姿
roman: sugata
lang: Japanese
word: 像
roman: zō
lang: Japanese
word: 肖像
roman: shōzō
lang: Japanese
word: 映像
roman: eizō
lang: Kazakh
word: сурет
roman: suret
lang: Kazakh
word: пішін
roman: pışın
lang: Kazakh
word: кескін
roman: keskın
lang: Khmer
word: រូបភាព
roman: ruup phiəp
lang: Khmer
word: រូប
roman: ruup
lang: Korean
word: 상
roman: sang
lang: Korean
word: 영상
roman: yeongsang
lang: Korean
word: 이미지
roman: imiji
lang: Kyrgyz
word: сүрөт
roman: süröt
lang: Lao
word: ຮູບພາບ
roman: hūp phāp
lang: Lao
word: ຮູບ
roman: hūp
lang: Lao
word: ພາບ
roman: phāp
lang: Latgalian
word: atvaigs
lang: Latin
word: imāgō
lang: Latvian
word: attēls
lang: Lezgi
word: суьрет
roman: süret
lang: Macedonian
word: слика
roman: slika
lang: Malayalam
word: ചിത്രം
roman: citraṁ
lang: Māori
word: atahanga
lang: Māori
word: mātātuhi
lang: Middle English
word: ymage
lang: Nahuatl
word: ixiptli
lang: Navajo
word: eʼelyaaígíí
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bilde
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: bilde
lang: Occitan
word: imatge
lang: Pashto
word: انځور
roman: anźor
lang: Pashto
word: تصوير
roman: taswir
lang: Persian
word: انگاره
roman: engāre
lang: Persian
word: تَصْوِیر
roman: taswīr
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تَصْویر
roman: tasvir
lang: Iranian Persian
word: نِگارِه
roman: negâre
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Bilt
lang: Polish
word: obraz
lang: Portuguese
word: imagem
lang: Portuguese
word: figura
lang: Portuguese
word: fotografia
lang: Punjabi
word: ਤਸਵੀਰ
roman: tasvīr
lang: Punjabi
word: تصویر
roman: tasvīr
lang: Romanian
word: imagine
lang: Romanian
word: poză
lang: Russian
word: о́браз
roman: óbraz
lang: Russian
word: изображе́ние
roman: izobražénije
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: màgini
lang: Scots
word: eemage
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dealbh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сли̏ка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: slȉka
lang: Sicilian
word: mmàggini
lang: Slovak
word: obraz
lang: Slovene
word: slika
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: wobraz
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: wobraz
lang: Spanish
word: imagen
lang: Spanish
word: estampa
lang: Swahili
word: sura
lang: Swedish
word: bild
lang: Tagalog
word: imahen
lang: Tagalog
word: hulagway
lang: Tahitian
word: hohoʻa
lang: Tajik
word: тасвир
roman: tasvir
lang: Tajik
word: акс
roman: aks
lang: Thai
word: รูปภาพ
roman: rûup-pâap
lang: Thai
word: รูป
roman: rûup
lang: Thai
word: ภาพ
roman: pâap
lang: Turkish
word: resim
lang: Tuvan
word: чурук
roman: çuruk
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎕𐎍𐎎
roman: ṣlm
lang: Ukrainian
word: о́браз
roman: óbraz
lang: Ukrainian
word: зобра́ження
roman: zobrážennja
lang: Urdu
word: تَصْوِیر
roman: tasvīr
lang: Uyghur
word: رەسىم
roman: resim
lang: Uzbek
word: rasm
lang: Uzbek
word: tasvir
lang: Uzbek
word: surat
lang: Vietnamese
word: ảnh
lang: Yiddish
word: בילד
roman: bild
lang: Bulgarian
word: о́браз
roman: óbraz
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 像
roman: xiàng
lang: Czech
word: obraz
lang: Finnish
word: kuvaus
lang: German
word: Bild
lang: Irish
word: íomhá
lang: Japanese
word: 像
roman: zō
lang: Polish
word: obraz
lang: Portuguese
word: imagem
lang: Russian
word: о́браз
roman: óbraz
lang: Turkish
word: görüntü kümesi
lang: Ukrainian
word: о́браз
roman: óbraz