Image vs. Prototype — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Image and Prototype
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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).
Prototype
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process. It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and software programming.
Image
A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art
Her work juxtaposed images from serious and popular art
Prototype
An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard
"The abolitionists were the prototype of modern citizen activism" (Adam Hochschild).
Image
The general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public
She strives to project an image of youth
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Prototype
An original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.
Image
A simile or metaphor
He uses the image of a hole to describe emotional emptiness
Prototype
A typical example of a class or category
"He fit the prototype of the artist as social misfit and compulsive contrarian" (Stephen Holden).
Image
Make a representation of the external form of
Artworks which imaged women's bodies
Prototype
To make a prototype of (a product).
Image
A representation of the form of a person or object, such as a painting or photograph.
Prototype
An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
Image
A sculptured likeness.
Prototype
An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.
Image
(Physics) An optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction formed by a lens or mirror.
Prototype
(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
Image
One that closely or exactly resembles another
He is the image of his uncle.
Prototype
(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.
Image
Likeness; semblance
Genesis says that man was made in the image of God.
Prototype
(motorsport) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.
Image
The opinion or concept of something that is held by the public
The public's image of business leaders as greedy.
Prototype
(transitive) To create a prototype of.
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.
Prototype
An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.
They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype.
Image
A typical example or embodiment
That child is the image of good health.
Prototype
A standard or typical example;
He is the prototype of good breeding
He provided America with an image of the good father
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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