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image

See also: Image and imagé

English
An image that represents image files

Etymology …

From Middle English, borrowed from Old

French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy,
likeness, image”), from *im. *Im is also
root of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see
imitate.

Pronunciation …

IPA(key): /ˈɪmɪd͡ʒ/
 Rhymes: -ɪmɪdʒ
Hyphenation: im‧age

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Noun …

image (plural images)

1. An optical or other representation of

a real object; a graphic; a picture.
quotations ▼
 The Bible forbids the worship of
graven images.
2. A mental picture of something not
real or not present. quotations ▼
3. A statue or idol.
4. (computing) 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.
5. A characteristic of a person, group or
company etc., style, manner of dress,
how one is, or wishes to be, perceived
by others.
6. (mathematics) Something mapped to
by a function.
The number 6 is the image of 3
under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.
7. (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.
8. (radio) A form of interference: a
weaker "copy" of a strong signal that
occurs at a different frequency.
9. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
quotations ▼

Synonyms …

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

Hyponyms …

inverse image
macroimage
mental image
microimage
mirror image
real image
spitting image
virtual image
Derived terms …

five-image
four-image
imagery
macroimage
microimage
one-image
preimage
reimage
satellite image
 six-image
three-image
two-image

Related terms …

image magic
imaginable
imaginary
imagination
imaginative
imagine
Descendants …

German: Image
Slovak: imidž
Russian: и́мидж (ímidž)
Armenian: իﬕջ (imiǰ)

Translations …

graphical representation show ▼

mental picture show ▼

computing: file show ▼

characteristic as perceived by show ▼

others
math: something mapped to by a show ▼
function
h b f d i
math: subset of codomain show ▼

Verb …

image (third-person singular simple present

images, present participle imaging, simple
past and past participle imaged)

1. (transitive) To represent by an image

or symbol; to portray. quotations ▼
2. (transitive) To reflect, mirror.
quotations ▼
 3. (transitive) To create an image of.
quotations ▼
4. (transitive, computing) To create a
complete backup copy of a file
system or other entity.
Translations …

to represent symbolically show ▼

to reflect show ▼

to create an image of show ▼

computing: to create a backup show ▼

copy

References …
 image on Wikipedia.

Further reading …

image in Webster’s Revised Unabridged

Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
image in The Century Dictionary, The
Century Co., New York, 1911
"image" in Raymond Williams, Keywords
(revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page
158.

Anagrams …
 gamie

Dutch

Etymology …

Borrowed from English image.

Pronunciation …

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Hyphenation: ima‧ge
Noun …

image n (plural images)

1. image (characteristic perceived by

others)
Synonyms …

imago

French

Etymology …
From Old French image, borrowed from
Latin imago, imaginem (“a copy, likeness,
image”).

Pronunciation …

IPA(key): /i.maʒ/

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

image f (plural images)

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

Synonyms …

métaphore
reflet
symbole
vision
Derived terms
 …

image satellite

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

Further reading …

“image ” in le Trésor de la langue

française informatisé (The Digitized
 Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams …

magie

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology …

Borrowed from English image.

Pronunciation …
 IPA(key): /ɪmɪdʂ/
Rhymes: -ɪdʂ

Noun …

image m or n (definite singular imagen or

imageet, indefinite plural imager or image,
definite plural imagene or imagea or
imageene)

1. image (how one wishes to be

perceived by others)

Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology …

Borrowed from English image.

Pronunciation …

IPA(key): /ɪmɪdʂ/
Rhymes: -ɪdʂ

Noun …

image m or n (definite singular imagen or

imaget, indefinite plural imagar or image,
definite plural imagane or imaga)
 1. image (how one wishes to be
perceived by others)

Old French

Alternative forms …

himage
imagene (La Vie de Saint Alexis, 11th
century manuscripts)
imagine (La Vie de Saint Alexis, 11th
century manuscripts)
imaige
 ymage
ymaige

Etymology …

Borrowed from Latin imāgō, imāginem.

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)
5. statue (of a person)
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)
(image , supplement)

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