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Image vs Manscape - What's the difference?

image | manscape |

As verbs the difference between image and manscape

is that image is while manscape is (rare) to impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.

As an adjective image

is figurative (of sense of term or discourse).

As a noun manscape is

a view of a group of people.

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.
  • manscape

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A view of a group of people.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1859, title=A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853, author=Bayard Taylor
  • , passage=I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manspace at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda.}}
  • A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2001, title=Earth Revealing--earth Healing, author=Denis Edwards
  • , passage=For example, he compares the monumental conquest of Mount Rushmore by Europeans, in which landscape became manscape . w'ith the indigenous Lakota people's desire to honor the Great Spirit, Wakonda
  • An image, normally artistic, of the male form.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, title=Best Gay Erotica 2002, author=Richard Labonte
  • , passage=no contemplative staring at the marble-statue manscape I'd downloaded from one of the porno websites I'd found.}}

    Verb

    (manscap)
  • (rare) To impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1958, title=The New Zealand Railway Observer, author=New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society
  • , passage=On the valley floor, wide enough to admit the more pleasing features of manscaping , the Little River meanders}}
  • (neologism) To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2009 , date=October 6 , author=Molly Kissler , title=How To: Manscape , work=State Press Magazine citation , passage="Manscaping, otherwise known as the art of shaving, waxing and cleaning up the superfluous fur on a man..., is a must in this day and age"}}
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2009 , date=September 30 , author=Sara DiRienzo , title=The Art of Manscaping , work=College News citation , passage=College News'' presents a working guide of the dos and don’ts of manscaping''', taken from suggestions of college students themselves: Dos: ...Facial shaving/beard trimming, ...Controlling pubic hair, ...Embrace leg hair; Donts: Excessive chest hair, Long nose hairs, Ear hair, Adventurous shoulder and back hair, Unibrows, Wild beards... Follow these directions, and you’ll be making sure that the man in your life is properly ' manscaped . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Jen Lancaster, title=Bright Lights, Big Ass
  • , passage=Is it that hard to manscape ? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?}}

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