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image

Syllables: im·age/ˈɪm.ɪd͡ʒ/

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New Zealand/ˈɘm.ɘd͡ʒ/

image noun: a visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.

Noun

image (plural images)

  1. A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
    • The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
    • The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: ….”...
    1. A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
  2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
    • Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching...2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023
    Synonyms:
    idea
  3. A statue or idol.
  4. 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.
  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. 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.
  7. 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.
    Synonyms:
    range
  8. A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
  9. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
    • The face of things a frightful image bears.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  10. The collection of focus points of light rays coming from a given object.

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.
    • 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.1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215
    • […] his behaviour was, as I had imaged to myself, solemnly devout.1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 393
  2. (transitive) 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,1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo”, in The Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, volume I, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, published 1906, page 10
    • Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born; imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose.1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Seventy-first”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC, page 210
  3. (transitive) To create an image of.
    • The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2014
    • He added, in an email to CNN, that “the collection of increasingly large and well curated medical datasets has enabled AI tools to predict genetic mutations from imaging phenotypes reducing the burden of healthcare systems and improving the way we care for patients.” Phenotypes are observable...2019 January 8, Nina Avramova, “AI technology can identify genetic diseases by looking at your face, study says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2022
  4. (transitive) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

image meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

image in Hindi

graphical representation
चित्र citra, तस्वीर tasvīr, प्रतिबिम्ब pratibimb
mental picture
छवि chavi
characteristic as perceived by others
चित्र citra, छवि chavi

image in Tamil

படிமம்

image in Marathi

image, figure
प्रतिमा pratimā

image in Urdu

graphical representation
تَصْوِیر tasvīr
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image in Bengali
ছবি chobi
image in Telugu
బింబము bimbamu, ప్రతిమ pratima, పుత్తళిక puttaḷika, నీడ nīḍa
image in Malayalam
ചിത്രം citraṁ
image in Kannada
ಪ್ರತಿಮೆ pratime
image in Punjabi
ਤਸਵੀਰ tasvīr
image in Gujarati
તસવીર tasvīr
image in Odia
ଦେହ deha
image in Sanskrit
प्रतिभा pratibhā, अर्चा arcā́, मूर्ति mūrti, वर्पस् várpas
image in Nepali
छवि
image in Pashto
انځور anźor, تصوير taswir
image in Tagalog
imahen, hulagway, laragway
image in Arabic
صُورَة ṣūra, اِنْطِبَاع inṭibāʕ, سُمْعَة sumʕa
image in Indonesian
gambar, gambaran, bayangan
image in Persian
انگاره engāre
image in Thai
รูปภาพ rûup-pâap, รูป rûup, ภาพ pâap, ภาพลักษณ์ pâap-lák
image in Vietnamese
ảnh
Sindhi
عڪس ʻks

Examples of image in a sentence

  • He suspected the image was a Web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
  • I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.
  • Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.

All 40 example sentences with image

Synonyms of image

Forms of image

Noun
pluralimages
Verb
third-person singular presentimages
present participleimaging
past participleimaged
pastimaged

Past tense of image: imaged

Plural of image: images

Origin of image

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.

Words formed from image

Phrases with image

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Words that rhyme with image

Questions about image

What does image mean?
Image means a visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
What is image in Hindi?
Image in Hindi is चित्र (citra), तस्वीर (tasvīr), प्रतिबिम्ब (pratibimb). See Image meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is image?
Image can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce image?
Image is pronounced /ˈɪm.ɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of image?
The plural of image is images.

Words near image in the dictionary

  1. IMAG
  2. imagable
  3. Imagawa
  4. Imagawas
  5. imagawayaki
  6. image
  7. image board
  8. image capture
  9. image consultant
  10. image consultants
  11. image copies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: image (page history and authors); image (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); प्रतिमा (Marathi) (page history and authors); నీడ (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಪ್ರತಿಮೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); તસવીર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଦେହ (Odia) (page history and authors); अर्चा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); image (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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