Likeness vs. Image

Likeness vs. Image — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Likeness and Image

Likenessnoun

The state or quality of being like or alike

Imagenoun

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

The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

Likenessnoun

Appearance or form; guise.

A foe in the likeness of a friend

Imagenoun

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

Likenessnoun

That which closely resembles; a portrait.

How he looked, the likenesses' of him which still remain enable us to imagine.

Imagenoun

A statue or idol.

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Likenessverb

To depict.

Imagenoun

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

Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

Likenessnoun

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

man created God in his own likeness

Imagenoun

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

Likenessnoun

picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing

Imagenoun

(mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.

The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2*x.
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Imagenoun

(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.

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 iconic mental representation;

her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate

Imagenoun

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

they showed us the pictures of their weddinga movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them

Imagenoun

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

a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty

Imagenoun

a standard or typical example;

he is the prototype of good breedinghe provided America with an image of the good father

Imagenoun

language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Imagenoun

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

he could be Gingrich's doubleshe's the very image of her mother

Imagenoun

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

the coin bears an effigy of Lincolnthe emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone

Imageverb

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

I can't see him on horseback!I can see what will happenI can see a risk in this strategy