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ICON
icon, ikon
(noun) a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
picture, image, icon, ikon
(noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; “they showed us the pictures of their wedding”; “a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them”
icon
(noun) (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
icon (plural icons)
An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
Synonyms: idol, graven image (pejorative)
(religion, especially, Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
(by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
Synonyms: Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model
(graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
(linguistics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.
Coordinate terms: symbol, index.
Anagrams
• COIN, Coin, Nico, cion, coin, coni
Noun
ICON (plural ICONs)
Acronym of index currency option note, a type of financial instrument.
Anagrams
• COIN, Coin, Nico, cion, coin, coni
Source: Wiktionary
I"con, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.
Definition: An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait. Netherlands whose names and icons are published. Hakewill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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