Image vs Purpose - 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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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.
An object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.
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, title= A result that is desired; an intention.
The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
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, title= The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.
(obsolete) Instance; example.
Have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
* Macaulay
(passive ) Designed for some purpose.
(obsolete) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
Image is a related term of purpose.
As verbs the difference between image and purpose
is that image is while purpose is have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.As an adjective image
is figurative (of sense of term or discourse).As a noun purpose is
an object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.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.}}
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
- United began with more purpose in the early phase of the second half and Liverpool were grateful for Glen Johnson's crucial block from Young's goalbound shot.
Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
- (Spenser)
- The purpose of turning off the lights overnight is to save energy.
Synonyms
* (target ): aim, goal, object, target * (intention ): aim, plan, intention * (determination ): determination, intention, resolution * (subject of discourse ): matter, subject, topic * (reason for doing something ): reason * See alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from purpose) * all-purpose * common purpose * cross-purpose * fit for purpose * for all intents and purposes * game with a purpose * general-purpose * infinitive of purpose * multi-purpose * metapurpose * purpose-built * purposeful * purposeless * purpose-like * purpose loan * purposely * purpose statement * on purposeEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(purpos)- I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
- (Spenser)