Associations to the word «Icon»

Pictures for the word «Icon»

Wiktionary

ICON, noun. An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
ICON, noun. A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
ICON, noun. A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
ICON, noun. A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
ICON, noun. (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also symbol and index.
ICON, noun. Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.

Dictionary definition

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.
ICON, 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. A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley