image

English Online Dictionary. What means image‎? What does image mean?

English

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. Displaced native Old English biliþe (“an image, a representation, resemblance, likeness; pattern, example”). Doublet of imago.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

image (plural images)

1. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
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.)

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) What a function maps to.

7. (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.

8. (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
9. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

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

Translations

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.
   • 1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215,^[2]

     This Representation of the Terrors which must have attended the Conflict of two such mighty Powers as Jupiter and Neptune, whereby the Elements had been mix’d in Confusion, and the whole Frame of Nature endangered, is imaged in these few Lines with a Nobleness suitable to the Occasion.
2. (transitive) To reflect, mirror.
3. (transitive) To create an image of.
4. (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Translations

References

• “image”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• image in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "image" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 158.
• “image”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “image”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

• image on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Megia, gamie

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English image.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ima‧ge

Noun

image n (plural images)

1. image (characteristic perceived by others)

Synonyms

• imago

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French image, borrowed from Latin imaginem (“a copy, likeness, image”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.maʒ/
• Rhymes: -aʒ
• Homophones: images, imagent
• Hyphenation: image

Noun

image f (plural images)

1. picture, image
2. (television, film) frame
3. A mental representation.

Synonyms

• métaphore
• reflet
• symbole
• vision

Derived terms

Related terms

• imager
• imagerie
• imaginer

Descendants

• → Franco-Provençal: émâge
• → Turkish: imaj

Verb

image

1. inflection of imager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “image”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• magie

Middle English

Noun

image

1. Alternative form of ymage

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imāgō, imāginem.

Noun

image oblique singular, 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 IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (image, supplement)

Polish

Etymology

Originally, an unadapted borrowing from French image; later reinforced by an unadapted borrowing from English image, resulting in three possible pronunciations, with the English pronunciations considered pretentious by some. Doublet of imago.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈmaʂ/, /ˈi.mit͡ʂ/, /ˈɘ.mɘt͡ʂ/
• Rhymes: -aʂ, -imit͡ʂ, -ɘmɘt͡ʂ
• Syllabification: i‧mage

Noun

image m inan (indeclinable)

1. image, reputation (way in which a person, an organization, an institution, etc., is perceived and evaluated, resulting from its characteristics or behavior)

   Synonym: wizerunek

Declension

or

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• image in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• image in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English image. First attested in 1960.

Noun

image c

1. image (how one is or works to be perceived by others)

   Synonym: framtoning

Declension

References

• image in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• image in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)