Imitate vs Image - What's the difference?
imitate | image |
To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
* 1870 , Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (page 170)
To copy.
An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=, title=Pixels or Perish
, 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.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= (computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
As verbs the difference between imitate and image
is that imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of while image is to represent symbolically.As a noun image is
an optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.imitate
English
Verb
(imitat)- Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* createExternal links
* * ----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.}}