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Image vs. Concept — What's the Difference?

Image vs. Concept — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Image and Concept

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Image

The general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public
She strives to project an image of youth

Concept

A general idea or understanding of something
The concept of inertia.
The concept of free will.

Image

A simile or metaphor
He uses the image of a hole to describe emotional emptiness

Concept

Concepts are defined as abstract ideas or general notions that occur in the mind, in speech, or in thought. They are understood to be the fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs.

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).
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Concept

An abstract idea
Structuralism is a difficult concept
The concept of justice

Image

A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art
Her work juxtaposed images from serious and popular art

Concept

A plan or original idea
The original concept was for a building with 12 floors.

Image

Make a representation of the external form of
Artworks which imaged women's bodies

Concept

A unifying idea or theme, especially for a product or service
A new restaurant concept.

Image

A representation of the form of a person or object, such as a painting or photograph.

Concept

Having an experimental or strikingly different design, especially to test or demonstrate new features
A concept car.

Image

A sculptured likeness.

Concept

An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.

Image

(Physics) An optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction formed by a lens or mirror.

Concept

Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).

Image

One that closely or exactly resembles another
He is the image of his uncle.

Concept

(generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

Image

Likeness; semblance
Genesis says that man was made in the image of God.

Concept

To conceive; to dream up

Image

The opinion or concept of something that is held by the public
The public's image of business leaders as greedy.

Concept

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.

Image

The concept or character projected to the public, as by a person or institution, especially as interpreted by the mass media
An actor who tried to convey an image of refined beauty.

Concept

An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

Image

A typical example or embodiment
That child is the image of good health.

Image

A mental picture of something not real or present
Our image of the cottage did not conform with reality.

Image

A vivid description or representation in words, especially a metaphor or simile
The poem uses the image of a barren tree to convey feelings of desolation.

Image

(Mathematics) A set of values of a function corresponding to a particular subset of a domain.

Image

(Computers) An exact replica of the contents of a storage device, such as a hard disk, stored on a second storage device, such as a network server.

Image

(Obsolete) An apparition.

Image

To make or produce a likeness of
Imaged the poet in bronze.

Image

To mirror or reflect
A statue imaged in the water.

Image

To make a visual representation of (an object) using remote scanning or technology such as magnetic resonance imaging
Imaged the diseased kidneys.
Imaged the surface of Mars.

Image

To symbolize or typify
A kneeling woman imaging the nation's grief.

Image

To picture mentally; imagine or visualize
Imaged each dive before doing it.

Image

To describe, especially so vividly as to evoke a mental picture
The passage images what it's like to grow up poor.

Image

To print (a file) using a laser printer, imagesetter, direct-to-plate press, or similar device.

Image

To transmit (an exact replica of the contents of a storage device) to another storage device
Imaged the hard drive to the server.

Image

An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

Image

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

Image

A statue or idol.

Image

(computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

Image

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

Image

(mathematics) What a function maps to.
The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.

Image

(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.

Image

(radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.

Image

(obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.

Image

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

Image

(transitive) To reflect, mirror.

Image

(transitive) To create an image of.

Image

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

Image

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.
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.

Image

Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them.

Image

Show; appearance; cast.
The face of things a frightful image bears.

Image

A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
Can we conceiveImage of aught delightful, soft, or great?

Image

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

Image

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.

Image

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

Image

To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore,And image charms he must behold no more.

Image

An iconic mental representation;
Her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate

Image

A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;
They showed us the pictures of their wedding
A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them

Image

(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world;
A public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty

Image

A standard or typical example;
He is the prototype of good breeding
He provided America with an image of the good father

Image

Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Image

Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor);
He could be Gingrich's double
She's the very image of her mother

Image

A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture);
The coin bears an effigy of Lincoln
The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone

Image

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;
I can't see him on horseback!
I can see what will happen
I can see a risk in this strategy

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