Container image -> Container

Would it be plausible to say that a container image is to a container, what a binary (executable) file is to a process? I'm attempting to
make this association because a container (a process itself) runs
by launching a static item (i.e. container image), just as a Linux
process comes into being when a static item (i.e. a binary file) gets
executed.

Thanks in advance for your comment(s).