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Image vs Example - What's the difference?

image | example |

As nouns the difference between image and example

is that image is an optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture while example is something that is representative of all such things in a group.

As verbs the difference between image and example

is that image is to represent symbolically while example is to be illustrated or exemplified (by).

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.
  • example

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= How algorithms rule the world , passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
  • Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
  • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
  • * Bible, (w) xiii, 15
  • For I have given you an example , that ye should do as I have done to you.
  • * (John Milton)
  • I gave, thou sayest, the example ; I led the way.
  • * 1818 , (Mary Shelley), :
  • Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge,
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
  • A person punished as a warning to others.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Hang him; he'll be made an example .
  • * Bible, x, 6
  • Now these things were our examples , to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
  • A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Such temperate order in so fierce a cause / Doth want example .
  • An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
  • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * for example * make an example of * proof by example * set an example

    See also

    * exemplar * model * pattern * quotation * template

    Verb

    (exampl)
  • To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
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