image

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An artist creates an image - perhaps of his father.

noun

The definition of an image is a representation of something or someone or a photograph or an idea you're picturing in your head or the way you or others think of you.
1. An example of an image is a painting of your father.
2. An example of image is a picture taken with a camera and developed.
3. An example of an image is when you picture your kids laughing together.
4. An example of an image is when you or others think you are stern.

verb

To image is defined as to make a picture or representation of something.
An example of image is a CT scan.

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image

1. a representation or likeness of a person or thing, as in a drawing, painting, photograph, or sculpture
2. Bible a sculptured figure used as an idol
the visual impression of something, produced variously as by reflection from a mirror, refraction through a lens, electromagnetic or ultrasound scanning, etc.
a person or thing very much like another; copy; counterpart; likeness: she is the very image of her mother
1. a mental picture of something; conception; idea; impression
2. the concept of a person, product, institution, etc. held by the general public, often one deliberately created or modified by publicity, advertising, or propaganda
a type; typical example; symbol; embodiment: he is the very image of laziness
a vivid representation; graphic description: a drama that is the image of life
a figure of speech; esp., a metaphor or simile
Psychoanalysis a conception of a person, as of a parent, usually idealized, fashioned in the unconscious and remaining there; imago

Origin of image

Old French from imagene from Classical Latin imaginem, accusative of imago, imitation, copy, image, akin to aemulus: see emulate

transitive verb

-·aged, -·ag·ing

to make a representation or imitation of; portray, delineate, etc.
to reflect; mirror
to picture in the mind; imagine
to be a symbol or type of
to describe graphically, vividly, or with figures of speech

Origin of image

< imagethe noun; also < Fr imager < the n.

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image

noun

a. A representation of the form of a person or object, such as a painting or photograph.
b. A sculptured likeness.
Physics An optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction formed by a lens or mirror.
a. One that closely or exactly resembles another: He is the image of his uncle.
b. Likeness; semblance: Genesis says that man was made in the image of God.
a. The opinion or concept of something that is held by the public: the public's image of business leaders as greedy.
b. The concept or character projected to the public, as by a person or institution, especially as interpreted by the mass media: an actor who tried to convey an image of refined beauty.
A typical example or embodiment: That child is the image of good health.
A mental picture of something not real or present: Our image of the cottage did not conform with reality.
A vivid description or representation in words, especially a metaphor or simile: The poem uses the image of a barren tree to convey feelings of desolation.
Mathematics A set of values of a function corresponding to a particular subset of a domain.
Computers An exact replica of the contents of a storage device, such as a hard disk, stored on a second storage device, such as a network server.
Obsolete An apparition.

transitive verb

im·aged, im·ag·ing, im·ag·es

a. To make or produce a likeness of: imaged the poet in bronze.
b. To mirror or reflect: a statue imaged in the water.
c. To make a visual representation of (an object) using remote scanning or technology such as magnetic resonance imaging: imaged the diseased kidneys; imaged the surface of Mars.
To symbolize or typify: a kneeling woman imaging the nation's grief.
To picture mentally; imagine or visualize: imaged each dive before doing it.
To describe, especially so vividly as to evoke a mental picture: The passage images what it's like to grow up poor.
Computers
a. To print (a file) using a laser printer, imagesetter, direct-to-plate press, or similar device.
b. To transmit (an exact replica of the contents of a storage device) to another storage device: imaged the hard drive to the server.

Origin of image

Middle English from Old French from Latin imāgō ; see aim- in Indo-European roots.

Related Forms:

im′age·less
adjective

im′ag·er
noun

i·mag′i·nal
adjective

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Noun

(plural images)

An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
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.

Verb

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

To represent symbolically.
To reflect, mirror.
To create an image of.
(computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Origin

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

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image - Computer Definition

A still photograph or other still visual representation of a person, place, or thing.Video comprises a series of still images presented in rapid succession.

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(1) A picture. A graphic. See graphics.

(2) To picture. To display.

(3) See system image.

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