'icon' definitions:
Definition of 'icon'
From: WordNet
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
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" [syn: picture, image, icon, ikon]
noun
A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church [syn: icon, ikon]
Definition of 'icon'
From: GCIDE
- icon \i"con\ ([imac]"k[o^]n), n. [Also spelled ikon.] [L., fr. Gr. e'ikw`n.]
- 1. An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait. [1913 Webster]
- Netherlands whose names and icons are published. --Hakewill. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Gr. Ch.) A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church. The term is used especially for a highly stylized and conventionalized representation of a holy person, rich in symbolism and used in devotional services in many of the eastern Orthodox churches, especially the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- 3. a symbol, especially a symbol whose form suggests its meaning or the object it represents. [PJC]
- 4. (Computers) a graphical symbol for a data object whose form suggests the nature or function of the object; especially, such a symbol as viewed on the computer screen.
- Note: In a graphical user interface, pointing to and clicking on an icon may cause any of several types of actions, such as opening a file or executing a program, depending on how the icon properties are defined. [PJC]
- 5. any object of uncritical devotion. [PJC]
- The former congresswoman and Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is still an icon to many party members. --The New York Times, April
- 16, 1998 [PJC]
- 6. an outstanding example of something which has come to represent the class of things to which it belongs; a paragon; used of persons as well as objects. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'icon'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- abstraction,
- Agnus Dei,
- altarpiece,
- ark,
- asperger,
- asperges,
- aspergillum,
- bambino,
- beadroll,
- beads,
- block print,
- candle,
- censer,
- certified copy,
- chaplet,
- ciborium,
- collage,
- color print,
- companion,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- cross,
- crucifix,
- cruet,
- cyclorama,
- daub,
- dead ringer,
- diptych,
- double,
- duplicate,
- ectype,
- effigy,
- engraving,
- eucharistial,
- exact likeness,
- fair copy,
- faithful copy,
- fake,
- fellow,
- forgery,
- fresco,
- glosseme,
- holy cross,
- Holy Grail,
- holy water,
- holy-water sprinkler,
- Host,
- idol,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- image,
- imitation,
- incensory,
- lexeme,
- lexical form,
- likeness,
- living image,
- living picture,
- match,
- mate,
- matzo,
- menorah,
- mezuzah,
- mikvah,
- miniature,
- mirroring,
- model,
- monstrance,
- montage,
- morpheme,
- mosaic,
- mural,
- osculatory,
- ostensorium,
- panorama,
- paschal candle,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pax,
- phony,
- photograph,
- phrase,
- phylacteries,
- picture,
- Pieta,
- portrait,
- prayer shawl,
- prayer wheel,
- print,
- pyx,
- reflection,
- relics,
- representation,
- reproduction,
- resemblance,
- rood,
- rosary,
- rubbing,
- sacramental,
- sacred relics,
- sacring bell,
- Sanctus bell,
- Sangraal,
- semasiological unit,
- semblance,
- sememe,
- shadow,
- shofar,
- sign,
- signifiant,
- significant,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- spit and image,
- spitting image,
- stained glass window,
- stencil,
- still life,
- sukkah,
- symbol,
- tabernacle,
- tableau,
- tallith,
- tapestry,
- term,
- thurible,
- token,
- trace,
- tracing,
- triptych,
- twin,
- type,
- urceole,
- veronica,
- very image,
- very picture,
- vigil light,
- votive candle,
- wall painting,
- word