Image vs. Scan

Imagenoun

An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.

Imagenoun

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

Imagenoun

A statue or idol.

Imagenoun

(computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image, executable image and image copy.)

Imagenoun

A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.

Imagenoun

(mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.

Imagenoun

(mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.

Imagenoun

(obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.

Imageverb

(transitive) To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.

Imageverb

(transitive) To reflect, mirror.

Imageverb

(transitive) To create an image of.

Imageverb

To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Imagenoun

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.

Imagenoun

Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.

Imagenoun

Show; appearance; cast.

Imagenoun

A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.

Imagenoun

A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.

Imagenoun

The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.

Imageverb

To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.

Imageverb

To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.

Imagenoun

an iconic mental representation;

Imagenoun

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

Imagenoun

(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world;

Imagenoun

a standard or typical example;

Imagenoun

language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Imagenoun

someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor);

Imagenoun

a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture);

Imageverb

imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

Imagenoun

a representation of the external form of a person or thing in art

Imagenoun

a visible impression obtained by a camera, telescope, microscope, or other device, or displayed on a computer or video screen

Imagenoun

an optical appearance or counterpart produced by light from an object reflected in a mirror or refracted through a lens.

Imagenoun

a point or set formed by mapping from another point or set.

Imagenoun

an exact copy of a computer's hard disk, made for backing up data or setting up new machines.

Imagenoun

a mental representation or idea

Imagenoun

a person or thing that closely resembles another

Imagenoun

semblance or likeness

Imagenoun

(in biblical use) an idol.

Imagenoun

the general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public

Imagenoun

a simile or metaphor

Imageverb

make a representation of the external form of

Imageverb

make a visual representation of (something) by scanning it with a detector or electromagnetic beam.

Imageverb

make an exact copy of (a computer's hard disk)

Imageverb

form a mental picture or idea of

Image

An image (from Latin: imago) is an artifact that depicts visual perception, such as a photograph or other two-dimensional picture, that resembles a subject—usually a physical object—and thus provides a depiction of it. In the context of signal processing, an image is a distributed amplitude of color(s).

Scanverb

To read or mark so as to show a specific meter.

Scanverb

(intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.

Scanverb

(transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.

Scanverb

(transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.

Scanverb

To inspect, analyze or go over, often to find something.

Scanverb

To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.

Scanverb

To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner.

Scanverb

To read with an electronic device.

Scanverb

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

Scannoun

Close investigation.

Scannoun

(computing) An instance of scanning.

Scannoun

(computing) The result or output of a scanning process.

Scanverb

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

Scanverb

Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically.

Scanverb

To go over and examine point by point; to examine with care; to look closely at or into; to scrutinize.

Scanverb

To examine quickly, from point to point, in search of something specific; as, to scan an article for mention of a particular person.

Scanverb

To form an image or an electronic representation of, by passing a beam of light or electrons over, and detecting and recording the reflected or transmitted signal.

Scannoun

the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region;

Scannoun

an image produced by scanning;

Scanverb

examine minutely or intensely;

Scanverb

examine hastily;

Scanverb

make a wide, sweeping search of;

Scanverb

conform to a metrical pattern

Scanverb

move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image

Scanverb

read metrically;

Scanverb

obtain data from magnetic tapes;