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image

noun
/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/

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.

  1. derived from *h₂eym-✻
  2. derived from imāgō
  3. derived from image
  4. inherited from ymage

Definitions

  1. A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.

    • The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

  2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.

  3. A statue or idol.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk…

      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.

    2. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is…

      A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.

    3. 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.

    4. The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of…

      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.

    5. A form of interference

      A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.

    6. Show

      Show; appearance; cast.

      • The face of things a frightful image bears.

    7. To represent by an image or symbol

      To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.

      • […] his behaviour was, as I had imaged to myself, solemnly devout.

    8. To reflect, mirror.

      • 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!

    9. To create an image of.

    10. To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

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Derived

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 · +40 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at image. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at image. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at image

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA