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nature | image |

As a proper noun nature

is the sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.

As a verb image is

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As an adjective image is

figurative (of sense of term or discourse).

nature

English

Alternative forms

* natuer (obsolete)

Noun

  • (lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
  • *1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)
  • *:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
  • The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
  • *1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:
  • *:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
  • *1869 , , :
  • *:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
  • The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31
    • , magazine=(American Scientist) , title= How to Be Manipulative , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
  • Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
  • Kind, sort; character; quality.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
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  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
  • (lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:my days of nature
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Oppressed nature sleeps.
  • (lb) Natural affection or reverence.
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?

    • Derived terms

    * animal nature * back to nature * bad nature * by nature * call of nature * defy the laws of nature * crime against nature * freak of nature * good nature * human nature * law of nature/laws of nature * let nature take its course * Mother Nature * nature morte * nature preserve * nature reserve * nature strip * nature study * nature worship * second nature (nature)

    Related terms

    * antenatal * innate * nascent * natal * nation * national * nationality * native * nativity * nativization * nativism * natural * naturism * naturalism * perinatal * prenatal

    Verb

    (natur)
  • (obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.

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    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

    Related terms

    * imaginary * imaginable * imagination * imaginative * imagine

    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.

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