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ICON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
Synonyms:
icon; ikon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("icon" is a kind of...):
painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)
Derivation:
iconic (relating to or having the characteristics on an icon)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
Example:
a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them
Synonyms:
icon; ikon; image; picture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("icon" is a kind of...):
representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "icon"):
bitmap; electronic image (an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels)
chiaroscuro (a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color)
collage; montage (a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image)
foil; transparency (picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector)
computer graphic; graphic (an image that is generated by a computer)
iconography (the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject)
inset (a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one)
likeness; semblance (picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing)
cyclorama; diorama; panorama (a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene)
reflection; reflexion (the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material))
CAT scan; scan (an image produced by scanning)
echogram; sonogram (an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organs)
Derivation:
iconic (relating to or having the characteristics on an icon)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("icon" is a kind of...):
symbol (an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Holonyms ("icon" is a part of...):
graphical user interface; GUI (a user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text; uses a mouse as well as a keyboard as an input device)
Derivation:
iconic (relating to or having the characteristics on an icon)
