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Emerge vs Image - What's the difference?

emerge | image |

As verbs the difference between emerge and image

is that emerge is while image is .

As an adjective image is

figurative (of sense of term or discourse).

emerge

English

Verb

(emerg)
  • (label) To come into view.
  • * , chapter=12
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
  • , chapter=2, title= Internal Combustion , passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 10, author=Jeremy Wilson, work=Telegraph
  • , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.}}
  • To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=Anna Lena Phillips, volume=100, issue=2, page=172, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Sneaky Silk Moths , passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
  • (label) To become known.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}

    Synonyms

    * come forth, forthcome * heave in sight

    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.