Image vs Plot - What's the difference?
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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.
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, 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.
The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
* Alexander Pope
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
* Denham
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
* Milton
A plan; a purpose.
* Jeremy Taylor
To conceive (a crime, etc).
To trace out (a graph or diagram).
To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
* Carew
To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
As verbs the difference between image and plot
is that image is while plot is to conceive (a crime, etc).As an adjective image
is figurative (of sense of term or discourse).As a noun plot is
the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.image
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.}}
External links
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English
Noun
(en noun)- If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.
- The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
- The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .
- I have overheard a plot of death.
- O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
- a man of much plot
- And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
- no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
Synonyms
* (course of a story) storyline * (area) parcel * (secret plan) conspiracy, schemeDerived terms
* Gunpowder Plot * lose the plot * plotless * subplot * the plot thickens/plot thickensVerb
(plott)- They had ''plotted a robbery.
- They ''plotted'' the number of edits per day.
- Every five minutes they ''plotted'' their position.
- This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
- ''They were plotting against the king.
