What's the difference between image and visage?

Image


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
  • (n.) Show; appearance; cast.
  • (n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
  • (n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
  • (v. t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
  • (2) In addition, intravenous injection of complexes into rabbits showed optimal myocardial images with agents of intermediate lipophilicity.
  • (3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (4) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (5) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
  • (6) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
  • (7) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
  • (8) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
  • (9) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (10) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (11) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
  • (12) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
  • (13) Although MR imaging can accurately show high-grade chondromalacia patellae, it is less accurate in the detection of low-grade disease.
  • (14) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
  • (15) All masses had either histologic confirmation (n = 11) or confirmation with other imaging modalities (n = 4).
  • (16) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
  • (17) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
  • (18) This survey reviews three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging machines and 3D medical imaging operations.
  • (19) This method provided myocardial perfusion images of high quality which were well correlated with N-13 ammonia images.
  • (20) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.

Visage


Definition:

  • (n.) The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face.
  • (v. t.) To face.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Updated at 5.11pm BST 5.07pm BST 68th over: Sri Lanka 251-9 (Herath 10, Pradeep 11) Plunkett sends one towards Herath's visage, and he fidgets it down without looking happy in the process, before Pradeep guides one over the slips and gets two.
  • (2) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
  • (3) This gaunt, haunting visage (which, in the story, turned out to belong to a deliberately frightening dummy) appeared in Star Trek's end credits almost every week, and was guaranteed to scare the shit out of me whenever it did so.
  • (4) Golovkin, without so much as a blemish on his cherubic visage, continued to mete out punishment.
  • (5) With all free tickets to the event snapped up, Modi fans, many clad in commemorative T-shirts bearing the prime minister’s visage, overflowed into viewing areas outside the stadium, among them credit analyst Amrita Burman.
  • (6) Molly Smitten-Downes, United Kingdom Facebook Twitter Pinterest At first glance, Molly Smitten-Downes' reassuringly double-barrelled name and cheery Leicestershire visage makes her the ideal Eurovision voting option for viewers desperate for Britain's immediate withdrawal from the EU.
  • (7) To make the accompanying video for Ashes to Ashes , he went to the Blitz club in London and recruited several leading lights from the New Romantic movement, a collection of bands including Visage and Spandau Ballet, who owed much of their inspiration to Bowie.
  • (8) In the not-quite-35 years since then, a lot has changed on screen: Rey serves as far more than a device to move the plot along, or a smiling visage to congratulate the movie’s two heroes.
  • (9) The evidence was written in the visage of that US state department spokesman who was told of the new appointment before he had time to adjust his facial muscles.
  • (10) Over in commercial radio land, Bauer’s Absolute 80s, home to Visage, Kim Wilde and Blondie, has been doing well, too.
  • (11) Not out of despair and hopelessness, but rather with certainty of Allah’s promise.” At the end, Poulin spoke again, his visage filtered in a gauzy light.
  • (12) Instead of Assad's blue-eyed visage, the Free Syrian flag was painted on a barrier.
  • (13) Abbott doesn't present that visage much these days.
  • (14) The female visages of Sacagawea and Susan B Anthony have been relegated to dollar coins no one gives two cents about.
  • (15) Despite his boyish visage and compact frame, he carries himself with the air of a triumphant underdog.
  • (16) The impulse crosses political divisions: the libertarian blogger Guido Fawkes also uses the name, and the logo on his site resembles the V for Vendetta visage .
  • (17) With polarized microscopy, cholesteric anisotrophs of sera were unique in composition and iridescent visage for each aflatoxin level regime.
  • (18) Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whiskerless visage was ubiquitous on cable news.
  • (19) His scowling visage during a Golden Globes ceremony prompted an internet meme comparing him to Grumpy Cat .
  • (20) The two works perfectly depict the starkly contrasting faces of Paris in the mid-19th century, a dual visage presented to a British public this weekend with the Manet Portraying Life exhibition that opened at the Royal Academy, and the Hollywood version of Les Misérables released earlier this month.