Meaning

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

    The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

    a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

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

    A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.

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

    Bild

    о́бразóbraz, о́бликóblik

    о́бразóbraz, обли́ччяoblýččja

    an iconic mental representation

  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.)

    Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

    Image, Speicherabbild

    изображе́ниеizobražénije, о́бразóbraz

    о́бразóbraz

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

    Image, Erscheinungsbild

    о́бразóbraz, о́бликóblik, и́миджímidž

    о́бразóbraz, і́міджímidž

  7. 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.

    Bild

    о́бразóbraz

    о́бразóbraz

  8. 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.

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

  10. The collection of focus points of light rays coming from a given object.

  11. (obsolete)Show; appearance; cast.

Examples

398 sentences
  1. The image is out of focus.

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  2. I'd like to change my image.

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  3. What's your favorite image editing software?

    deWas ist deine Lieblingsbildbearbeitungssoftware?

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  4. God created man in his own image.

    ruБог создал человека по своему подобию.

    deUnd Gott schuf den Menschen ihm zum Bilde.

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  5. He is the image of his father.

    deEr ist das Ebenbild seines Vaters.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
graphical representation:
mental picture:
characteristic as perceived by others:
Русский
By meaning 3
graphical representation:
mental picture:
characteristic as perceived by others:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
graphical representation:
computing: file:
characteristic as perceived by others:

Origin

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, like

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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Forms

plural: images
Singularimage
Pluralimages

regular

Synonyms

19 synonyms
mental picture:ideaA1
subset of the codomain:rangeA2
representation:pictureA1
something mapped to:valueA2
Close in meaning
  • an iconic mental representation:mental image
  • (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined:rangerange of a function
  • a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture):effigysimulacrum
  • a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface:pictureiconikon
  • (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world:persona
  • someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor):doublelook-alike

Word family

71 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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