Likeness vs. Image

The state or quality of being like or alike

Appearance or form; guise.

Example: ‘A foe in the likeness of a friend’;

That which closely resembles; a portrait.

Example: ‘How he looked, the likenesses' of him which still remain enable us to imagine.’;

To depict.

The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

Appearance or form; guise.

Example: ‘An enemy in the likeness of a friend.’;

That which closely resembles; a portrait.

Example: ‘[How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.’;

A comparison; parable; proverb.

Example: ‘He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself.’;

similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things;

Example: ‘man created God in his own likeness’;

picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing

the fact or quality of being alike; resemblance

Example: ‘her likeness to him was astonishing’; ‘a family likeness can be seen in all the boys’;

the semblance, guise, or outward appearance of

Example: ‘humans are described as being made in God's likeness’;

a portrait or representation

Example: ‘the only known likeness of Dorothy as a young woman’;

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

Example: ‘The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.’;

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

A statue or idol.

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

Example: ‘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.

Example: ‘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.

Example: ‘The image of this step function is the set of integers.’;

(obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.

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

(transitive) To reflect, mirror.

(transitive) To create an image of.

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

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.

Example: ‘Even like a stony image, cold and numb.’; ‘Whose is this image and superscription?’; ‘This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna.’; ‘And God created man in his own image.’;

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

Example: ‘Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them.’;

Show; appearance; cast.

Example: ‘The face of things a frightful image bears.’;

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

Example: ‘Can we conceiveImage of aught delightful, soft, or great?’;

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

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.

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

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

Example: ‘Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore,And image charms he must behold no more.’;

an iconic mental representation;

Example: ‘her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate’;

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

Example: ‘they showed us the pictures of their wedding’; ‘a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them’;

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

Example: ‘a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty’;

a standard or typical example;

Example: ‘he is the prototype of good breeding’; ‘he provided America with an image of the good father’;

language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

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

Example: ‘he could be Gingrich's double’; ‘she's the very image of her mother’;

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

Example: ‘the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln’; ‘the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone’;

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

Example: ‘I can't see him on horseback!’; ‘I can see what will happen’; ‘I can see a risk in this strategy’;

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

Example: ‘her work juxtaposed images from serious and popular art’;

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

Example: ‘Voyager 2 sent back images of the planet Neptune’;

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

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

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

a mental representation or idea

Example: ‘I had a sudden image of Sal bringing me breakfast in bed’;

a person or thing that closely resembles another

Example: ‘he's the image of his father’;

semblance or likeness

Example: ‘made in the image of God’;

(in biblical use) an idol.

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

Example: ‘she strives to project an image of youth’;

a simile or metaphor

Example: ‘he uses the image of a hole to describe emotional emptiness’;

make a representation of the external form of

Example: ‘artworks which imaged women's bodies’;

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

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

Example: ‘the hard disk drive should be imaged using a specialized bitstream backup product’;

form a mental picture or idea of

Example: ‘it is possible for us to image a society in which no one committed crime’;

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).