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image (characteristic perceived by others)


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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, “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: ….”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, pages 77–78, column 2:

Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2013-02-19, page 106:

An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.

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 on free food.

2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

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

(computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and 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.

The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.

The image of this step function is the set of integers.

(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.

The face of things a frightful image bears.

1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

German: Image

Slovak: imidž

Russian: и́мидж (ímidž)

Armenian: իմիջ (imiǰ)

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.


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

[…] his behaviour was, as I had imaged to myself, solemnly devout.

1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 393:

[…] he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely […]

1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

[The road] straggled onward into the mystery of a primeval forest. This hemmed it in so narrowly, and stood so black and dense on either side, and disclosed such imperfect glimpses of the sky above, that, to Hester’s mind, it imaged not amiss the moral wilderness in which she had so long been wandering.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 16, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 222:

For example, in one use of content analysis, U.S. researchers Victoria Holden, William Holden, and Gary Davis (1997) examined the growing controversy over the racial imaging of indigenous peoples symbolized in sports team nicknames […]

2000, Mary Ann Schwartz, BarBara Marliene Scott, Madine M. L. Vanderplaat, Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World, page 51:

(transitive) To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.

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:

[…]we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own, imaging our own, but all unconscious of us; to whom we, for the time, are become as spirits and invisible!

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “2, “St. Edmundsbury,””, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 43:

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:

(transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

en-verb

image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)

images (present singular third-person)
imaging (participle present)
imaged (participle past)
imaged (past)


image

→ Franco-Provençal: émâge

→ Turkish: imaj

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


image

first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

inflection of imager:
second-person singular imperative


image

image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)

head

image m or n (definite singular imagen or imageet, indefinite plural imager or image, definite plural imagene or imagea or imageene)

imagen (definite singular)
imageet (definite singular)
imager (indefinite plural)
image (indefinite plural)
imagene (definite plural)
imagea (definite plural)
imageene (definite plural)


image

image m or n (definite singular imagen or imaget, indefinite plural imagar or image, definite plural imagane or imaga)

imagen (definite singular)
imaget (definite singular)
imagar (indefinite plural)
image (indefinite plural)
imagane (definite plural)
imaga (definite plural)


image

image (mental or imagined representation)

fro-noun

image oblique singular, f (oblique plural images, nominative singular image, nominative plural images)

image oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
images (oblique plural)
image (nominative singular)
images (nominative plural)

→ English: image

French: image

imagene

La Vie de Saint Alexis, 11th century manuscripts

ymagene

Chanson de Roland, 12th century manuscripts


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

image (nominative singular)
image'e (nominative plural)
image'u (genitive singular)
image'ów (genitive plural)
image'owi (dative singular)
image'om (dative plural)
image (accusative singular)
image'e (accusative plural)
image'em (instrumental singular)
image'ami (instrumental plural)
image'u (locative singular)
image'ach (locative plural)
image'u (singular vocative)
image'e (plural vocative)

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.


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jobba på sin image

företagets dåliga image

en miljövänlig image

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

image (indefinite nominative uncountable)
imagen (definite nominative uncountable)
images (genitive indefinite uncountable)
imagens (definite genitive uncountable)

Borrowed from English image. First attested in 1960.