Figure vs Image - What's the difference?
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A drawing or diagram conveying information.
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The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
* Shakespeare
A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
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, title= The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
* Dryden
* Blackstone
(obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
* Law
A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
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A numeral.
A number.
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A shape.
* Francis Bacon
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A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
A dance figure, a complex dance move(w).
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, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,
A figure of speech.
* Macaulay
(logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
(astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
(music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
(music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
To solve a mathematical problem.
To come to understand.
To be reasonable.
To enter, be a part of.
(obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
* Prior
To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
* Dryden
To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
* Shakespeare
(music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
(music) To embellish.
An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
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, volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(American Scientist)
A mental picture of something not real or not present.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable 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.
(mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
(mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
(obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
* Dryden
To represent symbolically.
To reflect, .
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, chapter 2, ''St. Edmundsbury :
To create an image of.
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, title= (computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
In obsolete terms the difference between figure and image
is that figure is to prefigure; to foreshow while image is show; appearance; cast.In transitive terms the difference between figure and image
is that figure is to enter, be a part of while image is to create an image of.As nouns the difference between figure and image
is that figure is a drawing or diagram conveying information while image is an optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.As verbs the difference between figure and image
is that figure is to solve a mathematical problem while image is to represent symbolically.figure
English
(wikipedia figure)Noun
(en noun)- a figure''' in bronze; a '''figure cut in marble
- a coin that bears the figure of an angel
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures .}}
- He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.
- I made some figure there.
- gentlemen of the best figure in the county
- that he may live in figure and indulgence
- Flowers have all exquisite figures .
- The muslin was of a pretty figure .
- to represent the imagination under the figure of a wing
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- (Grove)
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun) * academy figure * action figure * authority figure * big figure * dark figure * cut a figure * father figure * figure dash * figure eight * figurehead * figureless * figure loom * figure of eight * figure of merit * figure of speech * figure poem * figure skating * four-figure * hate figure * hourglass figure * lay figure * Lissajous figure * mother figure * musical figure * plane figure * public figure * significant figure * snow figure * stick figure * terminal figure * text figure * three-figure * two-figureVerb
(mainly US)- I can't figure if he's telling the truth or lying.
- If love, alas! be pain I bear, / No thought can figure , and no tongue declare.
- The vaulty top of heaven / Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
- As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.
- whose white vestments figure innocence
- In this the heaven figures some event.
Derived terms
* go figure * prefigure * figure out (US)Statistics
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English
(wikipedia image)Noun
(en noun)- The Bible forbids the worship of graven images .
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.}}
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.}}
- Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
- The number 6 is the image of 3 under ''f'' that is defined as f(x) = 2*x.
- The image of this step function is the set of integers.
- The face of things a frightful image bears.
Synonyms
* (representation) picture * (mental picture) idea * (something mapped to) value * (subset of the codomain) rangeDerived terms
* imagery * image magic * inverse image * macroimage * mental image * microimage * mirror image * preimage * real image * reimage * spitting image * virtual imageDescendants
* German: (l)Verb
(imag)- 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!.
Fenella Saunders
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.}}