image
English
/ˈɪmɪd͡ʒ/
noun
Definitions
- An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- A statue or idol.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image (disk image) and image copy (image copy).)
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
- (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
- (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ymage derived from Old French image derived from Latin imāgō (a copy, image, likeness) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym- (imitate, likeness, similarity, resemblance, identical).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂eym-
Gloss
imitate, likeness, similarity, resemblance, identical
Concept
Semantic Field
Cognition
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- afterimage English
- afterimagery English
- bioimage English
- bioimager English
- board English
- counterimage English
- eigenimage English
- fluoroimage English
- holoimage English
- imageability English
- imageable English
- imageboard English
- imageless English
- imagelessness English
- imagelike English
- imagemaker English
- imagemapped English
- imagemapping English
- imagen English
- imageology English
- imager English
- imagery English
- imagesetter English
- imagism English
- imagist English
- imagistic English
- imagistically English
- macroimage English
- maker English
- mapped English
- mapping English
- microimage English
- microimagery English
- neuroimage English
- neuroimager English
- neuroimagery English
- nonimage English
- orthoimage English
- orthoimagery English
- phosphoimage English
- phosphoimager English
- phosphoimagery English
- phosphorimager English
- photoimage English
- preimage English
- reimage English
- self-image English
- setter English
- stereoimage English
- subimage English
- unimageable English
- imago Finnish
- imaginem, imago Latin
- imago Latin
- imitor Latin
- imāginem, imāgō, imago Latin
- imāgō Latin
- Image German
- Image-Problem German
- imago Italian
- image Dutch, Flemish
- image French
- imager French
- imagerie French
- imagier French
- préimage French
- и́мидж Russian
- имидж Russian
- имиджборд Russian
- *h₂eym- Proto-Indo-European
- image Norwegian Bokmål
- imagem Portuguese
- image Norwegian Nynorsk
- यम Sanskrit
- यम, यमल Sanskrit
- ymage Middle English
- ymagen Middle English
- ymageour Middle English
- ymagerie Middle English
- image Old French
- imidž Serbo-Croatian
- imatge Catalan, Valencian
- իմիջ Armenian
- imagine Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- imajizar Ido
- imajo Ido
- ímáig Old Irish
- ymaige Middle French
- imidž Estonian
- imidž Slovak
- imatge Occitan
- *aimolos Proto-Italic
- *imā Proto-Italic
- ímáig Middle Irish
- ymage xno
- imaj Haitian, Haitian Creole
- zimaz Mauritian Creole
- zimaz Seychellois Creole
- eimaige Mirandese
- maker
- board
- imagen
- imager
- mapped
- setter
- imagist
- mapping
- imagism
- reimage
- imagery
- nonimage
- bioimage
- subimage
- preimage
- imagistic
- bioimager
- imageable
- imagelike
- holoimage
- imageless
- microimage
- imageology
- macroimage
- orthoimage
- eigenimage
- neuroimage
- imageboard
- imagemaker
- self-image
- photoimage
- afterimage
- unimageable
- stereoimage
- imagemapped
- neuroimager
- fluoroimage
- imagesetter
- phosphoimage
- counterimage
- imagemapping
- afterimagery
- neuroimagery
- orthoimagery
- imageability
- microimagery
- imagistically
- phosphoimager
- imagelessness
- phosphoimagery
- phosphorimager