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theory
English
Etymology
From Middle French théorie, from Late Latin the?ria, from Ancient Greek ?????? (the?ría, “contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at”), from ?????? (the?ré?, “I look at, view, consider, examine”), from ?????? (the?rós, “spectator”), from ??? (théa, “view”) + ???? (horá?, “I see, look”) [i. e. ???? ???? (théan horá?, “see, look at a view; survey + genitive”)].
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /?????i/, /??i???i/, /????i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??i???i/, /????i/
- Rhymes: -??ri
Noun
theory (countable and uncountable, plural theories)
- A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.
- (obsolete) Mental conception; reflection, consideration. [16th-18th c.]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, VII.19:
- As they encrease the hatred of vice in some, so doe they enlarge the theory of wickednesse in all.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, VII.19:
- (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc. [from 17th c.]
- 1843, John Stuart Mill, ""A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, ..., Bk V, Ch 7:
- In its most proper acceptation, theory means the completed result of philosophical induction from experience.
- 2002, Duncan Steel, The Guardian, 23 May 2002:
- It was only when Einstein's theory of relativity was published in 1915 that physicists could show that Mercury's "anomaly" was actually because Newton's gravitational theory was incomplete.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 118:
- The world would need additional decades [...] before the Big Bang would begin to move from interesting idea to established theory.
- 2009, Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, Bantam, p. 10:
- Scientists and creationists are understanding the word "theory" in two very different senses. Evolution is a theory in the same sense as the heliocentric theory. In neither case should the word "only" be used, as in "only a theory".
- 1843, John Stuart Mill, ""A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, ..., Bk V, Ch 7:
- (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice. [from 17th c.]
- (mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs. [from 18th c.]
- Knot theory classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space.
- A hypothesis or conjecture. [from 18th c.]
- 2003, Sean Coughlan, The Guardian, 21 Jun 2003:
- The theory is that by stripping costs to the bone, they are able to offer ludicrously low fares.
- 2003, Sean Coughlan, The Guardian, 21 Jun 2003:
- (countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).
- A theory is consistent if it has a model.
Usage notes
In scientific discourse, the sense “unproven conjecture” is discouraged (with hypothesis or conjecture preferred), due to unintentional ambiguity and intentional equivocation with the sense “well-developed statement or structure”.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:supposition
Hyponyms
Meronyms
- (in logic): axioms
Holonyms
- (in logic): formal system
Related terms
Translations
See also
- axiom
- postulate
- proposition
References
- theory at OneLook Dictionary Search
- theory in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "theory" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 316.
- theory in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Yother, thyreo-
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image
English
Etymology
From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin im?g? (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m?d??/
- Rhymes: -?m?d?
- Hyphenation: im?age
Noun
image (plural images)
- An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- A statue or idol.
- (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.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
- (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
- The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.
- (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.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
- The face of things a frightful image bears.
Synonyms
- (representation): picture
- (mental picture): idea
- (something mapped to): value
- (subset of the codomain): range
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- German: Image
- Slovak: imidž
- Russian: ?????? (ímidž)
- Armenian: ???? (imi?)
Translations
Verb
image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)
- (transitive) To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
- 1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215,[2]
- This Representation of the Terrors which must have attended the Conflict of two such mighty Powers as Jupiter and Neptune, whereby the Elements had been mix’d in Confusion, and the whole Frame of Nature endangered, is imaged in these few Lines with a Nobleness suitable to the Occasion.
- 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume I, p. 393,[3]
- […] his behaviour was, as I had imaged to myself, solemnly devout.
- 1817, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 11,[4]
- […] he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely […]
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Chapter 16, p. 222,[5]
- [The road] straggled onward into the mystery of a primeval forest. This hemmed it in so narrowly, and stood so black and dense on either side, and disclosed such imperfect glimpses of the sky above, that, to Hester’s mind, it imaged not amiss the moral wilderness in which she had so long been wandering.
- 2000, Mary Ann Schwartz, BarBara Marliene Scott, Madine M. L. Vanderplaat, Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World (page 51)
- For example, in one use of content analysis, U.S. researchers Victoria Holden, William Holden, and Gary Davis (1997) examined the growing controversy over the racial imaging of indigenous peoples symbolized in sports team nicknames […]
- 1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215,[2]
- (transitive) To reflect, mirror.
- 1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo” in The Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906, Volume I, p. 10,[6]
- See’st thou yon river, whose translucent wave,
- Forth issuing from the darkness, windeth through
- The argent streets o’ th’ City, imaging
- The soft inversion of her tremulous Domes,
- 1841, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 71, p. 210,[7]
- Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born; imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, London: Chapman & Hall, Book 2, Chapter 2, “St. Edmundsbury,” p. 43,[8]
- […] we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own, imaging our own, but all unconscious of us; to whom we, for the time, are become as spirits and invisible!
- 1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Timbuctoo” in The Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906, Volume I, p. 10,[6]
- (transitive) To create an image of.
- (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.
Translations
Further reading
- image on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- image at OneLook Dictionary Search
- image in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "image" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 158.
- image in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- image in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- gamie
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English image.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ima?ge
Noun
image n (plural images)
- image (characteristic perceived by others)
Synonyms
- imago
French
Etymology
From Old French image, borrowed from Latin imago, imaginem (“a copy, likeness, image”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.ma?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophones: images, imagent
- Hyphenation: i?mage
Noun
image f (plural images)
- picture, image
- (television, film) frame
Synonyms
- métaphore
- reflet
- symbole
- vision
Derived terms
Descendants
- Turkish: imaj
Related terms
- imager
- imagerie
- imaginer
Verb
image
- first-person singular present indicative of imager
- third-person singular present indicative of imager
- first-person singular present subjunctive of imager
- third-person singular present subjunctive of imager
- second-person singular imperative of imager
Further reading
- “image” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- magie
Middle English
Noun
image
- Alternative form of ymage
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English image.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?d?/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Noun
image m or n (definite singular imagen or imageet, indefinite plural imager or image, definite plural imagene or imagea or imageene)
- image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English image.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?d?/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Noun
image m or n (definite singular imagen or imaget, indefinite plural imagar or image, definite plural imagane or imaga)
- image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin im?g?, im?ginem.
Noun
image f (oblique plural images, nominative singular image, nominative plural images)
- sight (something which one sees)
- image (pictorial representation)
- image (mental or imagined representation)
- image (likeness)
- statue (of a person)
Descendants
- ? English: image
- French: image
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (image, supplement)
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