| computing |
| 1. n. (literally) The process or act of calculation. | |
| 2. n. The use of a computer or computers. | |
| 3. n. The study, field of computers and computer programming. | |
| This course will cover several major fields of computing. | |
| 4. v. present participle of compute | |
| 5. v. topics, en, Computing | |
| graphics |
| 1. n. The making of architectural or design drawings. | |
| 2. n. The graphic arts. | |
| 3. n. (computing) The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data. | |
| 4. n. (computing) The art or visual representations displayed by a computer. | |
| This game is really fun, but the graphics aren't very good. | |
| to |
| 1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
| I want to leave. | |
| He asked me what to do. | |
| I don’t know how to say it. | |
| I have places to go and people to see. | |
| 2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
| "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
| If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
| 3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
| I have to do laundry today. | |
| 4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
| We are walking to the shop. | |
| 5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
| He devoted himself to education. | |
| They drank to his health. | |
| 6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
| His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
| 7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
| similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
| With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
| 9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
| one to one = 1:1 | |
| ten to one = 10:1. | |
| I have ten dollars to your four. | |
| 10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
| Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
| Three to the power of two is nine. | |
| Three to the second is nine. | |
| 11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
| I gave the book to him. | |
| 12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
| ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
| 13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
| Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
| There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
| 14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
| Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
| 15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
| Please push the door to. | |
| 16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
| 17. adv. misspelling of too | |
| combine |
| 1. v. To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite. | |
| Combine the milk and the hot water in a large bowl. I'm combining business and pleasure on this trip. | |
| 2. v. To have two or more things or properties that function together. | |
| Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To come together; to unite. | |
| two substances that easily combine | |
| 4. v. (card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played. | |
| 5. v. (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie. | |
| 6. n. A combine harvester | |
| We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud. | |
| 7. n. A combination | |
| 8. n. Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes wi | |
| The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges. | |
| 9. n. An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc. | |
| two |
| 1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Ordinal: second. | |
| 2. num. Describing a set or group with two elements. | |
| 3. n. The digit/figure 2. | |
| The number 2202 contains three twos. | |
| 4. n. (US, informal) A two-dollar bill. | |
| 5. n. A child aged two. | |
| This toy is suitable for the twos and threes. | |
| 6. n. The playing cards featuring two pips. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| more |
| 1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.) | |
| More people are arriving. | |
| There are more ways to do this than I can count. | |
| 2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.) | |
| I want more soup; I need more time | |
| There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places. | |
| 3. adv. To a greater degree or extent. | |
| He walks more in the morning these days. | |
| 4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. | |
| 5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. | |
| You're more beautiful than I ever imagined. | |
| 6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.) | |
| I was more better at English than you. | |
| 7. adv. rather | |
| He is more clever than wise. | |
| 8. n. An extra amount or extent. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip. | |
| 10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock. | |
| 11. n. A plant. | |
| 12. v. To root up. | |
| 13. pron. a greater amount of people or things | |
| photographs |
| 1. n. plural of photograph | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of photograph | |
| photograph |
| 1. n. A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc. | |
| 2. v. To take a photograph of. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To take photographs. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To appear in a photograph. | |
| She photographs well. The camera loves her. | |
| of |
| 1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. | |
| 2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". | |
| 3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). | |
| 4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). | |
| There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. | |
| 5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to. | |
| What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three. | |
| 6. prep. Expressing separation. | |
| 7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.) | |
| Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband. | |
| 8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.) | |
| He seemed devoid of human feelings. | |
| 9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.) | |
| 10. prep. Expressing origin. | |
| 11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.) | |
| The word is believed to be of Japanese origin. | |
| 12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of. | |
| The invention was born of necessity. | |
| 13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.) | |
| It is said that she died of a broken heart. | |
| 14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.) | |
| I am tired of all this nonsense. | |
| 15. prep. Expressing agency. | |
| 16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).) | |
| I am not particularly enamoured of this idea. | |
| 17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below). | |
| The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties. | |
| 18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.) | |
| It was very brave of you to speak out like that. | |
| 19. prep. Expressing composition, substance. | |
| 20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.) | |
| Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic. | |
| 21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.) | |
| She wore a dress of silk. | |
| 22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.) | |
| What a lot of nonsense! | |
| 23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.) | |
| Welcome to the historic town of Harwich. | |
| 24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also". | |
| I'm not driving this wreck of a car. | |
| 25. prep. Introducing subject matter. | |
| 26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma | |
| I'm always thinking of you. | |
| 27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning. | |
| He told us the story of his journey to India. | |
| 28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.) | |
| This behaviour is typical of teenagers. | |
| 29. prep. Having partitive effect. | |
| 30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among". | |
| Most of these apples are rotten. | |
| 31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.) | |
| 32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of. | |
| On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort. | |
| 33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).) | |
| He is a friend of mine. | |
| 34. prep. Expressing possession. | |
| 35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above. | |
| He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. | |
| 36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it. | |
| The owner of the nightclub was arrested. | |
| 37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter | |
| Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames. | |
| 38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive". | |
| 39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.) | |
| She had a profound distrust of the police. | |
| 40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics. | |
| 41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards. | |
| My companion seemed affable and easy of manner. | |
| 42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by". | |
| Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain. | |
| 43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.) | |
| We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%. | |
| 44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod | |
| It's not that big of a deal. | |
| 45. prep. Expressing a point in time. | |
| 46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity. | |
| Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river. | |
| 47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time). | |
| I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while. | |
| 48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.) | |
| After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off. | |
| the |
| 1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already | |
| I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) | |
| The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) | |
| The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. | |
| 2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. | |
| The street that runs through my hometown. | |
| 3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time. | |
| No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe. | |
| God save the Queen! | |
| 4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item. | |
| That was the best apple pie ever. | |
| 5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive. | |
| That apple pie was the best. | |
| 6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class. | |
| 7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective. | |
| Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | |
| 8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar. | |
| No one in the whole country had seen it before. | |
| I don't think I'll get to it until the morning. | |
| 9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun. | |
| A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”) | |
| 10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention. | |
| That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery. | |
| 11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives. | |
| The hotter the better. | |
| The more I think about it, the weaker it looks. | |
| The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children. | |
| It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it. | |
| 12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone. | |
| It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it. | |
| It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it. | |
| I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that. | |
| same |
| 1. adj. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical. | |
| Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday? | |
| I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force. | |
| Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens. | |
| Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went. | |
| 2. adj. Similar, alike. | |
| You have the same hair I do! | |
| 3. adj. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities. | |
| Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day. | |
| We were all going in the same direction. | |
| 4. adj. A reply of confirmation of identity. | |
| 5. pron. The identical thing, ditto. | |
| The same can be said of him. | |
| It's the same everywhere. | |
| 6. pron. Something similar, something of the identical type. | |
| She's having apple pie? I'll have the same. You two are just the same. | |
| 7. pron. (formal, often, legal) It or them, without a connotation of similarity. | |
| The question is his credibility or lack of same. | |
| 8. pron. (Indian English, common) It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same. | |
| My picture/photography blog...kindly give me your reviews on the same. | |
| 9. interj. (Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material. | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete, or UK dialectal) Together. | |
| scene |
| 1. n. The location of an event that attracts attention. | |
| the scene of the crime | |
| 2. n. (theater) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage. | |
| They stood in the centre of the scene. | |
| 3. n. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a | |
| to paint scenes | |
| to change the scenes | |
| behind the scenes | |
| 4. n. So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently | |
| The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes. | |
| The most moving scene is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life. | |
| There were some very erotic scenes in the movie, although it was not classified as pornography. | |
| 5. n. The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of o | |
| 6. n. An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view. | |
| He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe. | |
| 7. n. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery. | |
| 8. n. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display | |
| The headmistress told the students not to cause a scene. | |
| They saw an angry scene outside the pub. | |
| The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store. | |
| 9. n. An element of fiction writing. | |
| 10. n. A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture. | |
| She got into the emo scene at an early age. | |
| 11. v. To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display. | |
| into |
| 1. prep. Going inside (of). | |
| Mary danced into the house. | |
| 2. prep. Going to a geographic region. | |
| We left the house and walked into the street. | |
| The plane flew into the open air. | |
| 3. prep. Against, especially with force or violence. | |
| The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall | |
| 4. prep. Producing, becoming; (indicates transition into another form or substance). | |
| I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf! | |
| 5. prep. After the start of. | |
| About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board. | |
| 6. prep. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to. | |
| She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you! | |
| 7. prep. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values. | |
| The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself. | |
| 8. prep. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online) | |
| Five into three is fifteen. | |
| 9. prep. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes". | |
| Three into two won't go. | |
| 24 goes into 48 how many times? | |
| 10. prep. Investigating the subject (of). | |
| Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees. | |
| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| single |
| 1. adj. Not accompanied by anything else; one in number. | |
| Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now? | |
| The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose. | |
| 2. adj. Not divided in parts. | |
| The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate. | |
| 3. adj. Designed for the use of only one. | |
| a single room | |
| 4. adj. Performed by one person, or one on each side. | |
| a single combat | |
| 5. adj. Not married or (in modern times) not involved in a romantic relationship without being married or not dating anyone exclusively. | |
| Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single". | |
| Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website. | |
| 6. adj. (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals. | |
| 7. adj. (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit. | |
| 8. adj. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. | |
| 9. adj. (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly. | |
| 10. n. (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B. | |
| 11. n. (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track. | |
| The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album. | |
| 12. n. One who is not married. | |
| He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there. | |
| 13. n. (cricket) A score of one run. | |
| 14. n. (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base. | |
| 15. n. (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end. | |
| 16. n. A bill valued at $1. | |
| I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change. | |
| 17. n. (UK) A one-way ticket. | |
| 18. n. (Canadian football) A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone. Officially known in the rules as a rouge. | |
| 19. n. (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis. | |
| 20. n. One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. | |
| 21. n. (Scotland) A handful of gleaned grain. | |
| 22. v. To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out. | |
| Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag. | |
| Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with. | |
| 23. v. (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base. | |
| Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention. | |
| 24. v. (agriculture) To thin out. | |
| 25. v. (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot. | |
| 26. v. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. | |
| 27. v. To take alone, or one by one. | |
| image |
| 1. n. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. | |
| The Bible forbids the worship of graven images. | |
| 2. n. A mental picture of something not real or not present. | |
| 3. n. A statue or idol. | |
| 4. n. (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. | |
| 5. n. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others. | |
| 6. n. (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. | |
| 7. n. (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. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast. | |
| 9. v. To represent by an image or symbol; to portray. | |
| 10. v. To reflect, mirror. | |
| 11. v. To create an image of. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity. | |
