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- 1 A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
"The Bible forbids the worship of graven images."
- 2 a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) wordnet
- 3 A mental picture of something not real or not present.
"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."
- 4 a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface wordnet
- 5 A statue or idol.
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- 6 the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public wordnet
- 7 A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
"Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons."
- 8 (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world wordnet
- 9 A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
- 10 an iconic mental representation wordnet
- 11 The value a function maps some argument to.
"The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x."
- 12 a standard or typical example wordnet
- 13 The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
"The image of this step function is the set of integers."
- 14 language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense wordnet
- 15 A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- 16 (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined wordnet
- 17 Show; appearance; cast. obsolete
"The face of things a frightful image bears."
- 18 someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) wordnet
- 1 To represent by an image or symbol; to portray. transitive
"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."
- 2 imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind wordnet
- 3 To reflect, mirror. transitive
"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,"
- 4 render visible, as by means of MRI wordnet
- 5 To create an image of. transitive
"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."
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- 6 To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity. transitive
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.
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.
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