English Explanatory Dictionary

image

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
  2. A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
  3. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
  4. A statue or idol.
  5. A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
  6. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
  7. The value a function maps some argument to.
  8. The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
  9. A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
  10. Show; appearance; cast.
verb
  1. To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
  2. To reflect, mirror.
  3. To create an image of.
  4. To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Pronunciation

/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/ en-us-image.ogg /ˈɪm.ədʒ/ /ˈɘm.ɘdʒ/ /ɪ.meːdʒ/

Word forms

image images imaging imaged

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.

Synonyms

picture idea value range

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

Translations

Albanian: imazh Albanian: duksim Arabic: صُورَة Armenian: պատկեր Asturian: imaxen Azerbaijani: şəkil Azerbaijani: surət Azerbaijani: obraz Belarusian: во́браз Belarusian: выя́ва Bengali: ছবি Breton: skeudenn Bulgarian: о́браз Bulgarian: изображе́ние Catalan: imatge Chinese Cantonese: 圖片 /图片 Chinese Mandarin: 圖片 /图片 Chinese Mandarin: 像 Czech: obraz Danish: billede Dutch: beeld Dutch: beeltenis Dutch: plaatje Egyptian: t-w&t-A53 Esperanto: bildo Faroese: mynd Finnish: kuva Finnish: kuvaus French: image Galician: imaxe Georgian: სურათი German: Bild German: Abbild Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 Greek: εικόνα Greek: απεικόνιση Greek: απείκασμα Greek: πανομοιότυπο Ancient Greek: εἰκών Haitian Creole: imaj Hebrew: תְּמוּנָה Hindi: चित्र Hindi: तस्वीर Hindi: प्रतिबिम्ब Hungarian: kép Icelandic: mynd Ido: imajo Indonesian: gambar Irish: íomhá Italian: immagine Japanese: 形 Japanese: 姿 Japanese: 像 Japanese: 肖像 Japanese: 映像 Kazakh: сурет Kazakh: пішін Kazakh: кескін Khmer: រូបភាព Khmer: រូប Korean: 상 Korean: 영상 Korean: 이미지 Kyrgyz: сүрөт
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