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Chart vs Image - What's the difference?

chart | image |

As verbs the difference between chart and image

is that chart is to draw a chart or map of while image is .

As a noun chart

is a map.

As an adjective image is

figurative (of sense of term or discourse).

chart

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A map.
  • # A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
  • # A navigator's map.
  • A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.
  • # A tabular presentation of data; a table.
  • #* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=, volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=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.}}
  • # A diagram.
  • # A graph.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
  • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
  • # A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
  • # A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
  • A written deed; a charter.
  • (topology) A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas
  • Derived terms

    * ancestral chart * bar chart * chart house * chartbook * charted * charticle * chartjunk * chartless * chartometer * chartroom * control chart * eye chart * flipchart * flow chart * music chart * org chart * organization chart * PERT chart * pie chart * psychrometric chart * record chart * spaghetti chart * star chart * step chart * wallchart * weather chart

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw a chart or map of.
  • To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
  • Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
    We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.
  • To record systematically.
  • (of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
  • The song has charted for 15 weeks!
    The band first charted in 1994.

    Derived terms

    * chartable * rechart

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    image

    English

    (wikipedia image)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
  • The Bible forbids the worship of graven images .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=, title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=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.}}
  • A mental picture of something not real or not present.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=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.}}
  • (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy)
  • Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
  • 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.
  • The number 6 is the image of 3 under ''f'' that is defined as f(x) = 2*x.
  • (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
  • The image of this step function is the set of integers.
  • (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
  • * Dryden
  • The face of things a frightful image bears.

    Synonyms

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

    Derived terms

    * imagery * image magic * inverse image * macroimage * mental image * microimage * mirror image * preimage * real image * reimage * spitting image * virtual image

    Descendants

    * German: (l)

    Verb

    (imag)
  • To represent symbolically.
  • To reflect, .
  • * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, chapter 2, ''St. Edmundsbury :
  • 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!.
  • To create an image of.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders
  • , title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=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.}}
  • (computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.