| 单词 | icon |
| 释义 | icon (once / 1679 pages) n An icon is a symbol. It can be literal—–like the little trashcan on your computer screen—–or metaphorical––as in a singer so well known by ten-year-olds, he's called a pre-teen pop icon. Icon comes to us from the Greek word eikenai, meaning "to seem or to be like." In certain religions, statues of religious figures are referred to as icons––because they are prayed to as if they were the thing they represent. Icon can also describe a person closely linked to an idea. Mahatma Gandhi is revered as an icon of peace and humanity, while Adolf Hitler is reviled as an icon of violence and hatred. WORD FAMILYicon: iconic, icons+/iconic: iconically USAGE EXAMPLESSamsung, the icon of South Korean technological prowess, suffered global humiliation with its recent recall of exploding Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Skype debuted its own set of icons, dubbed Emoticons, around the November release of Marvel’s “Doctor Strange.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) This was the year the country’s biggest living pop culture icon got political. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface Syn|Hypo|Hyper ikon, image, picture bitmap, electronic image an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels chiaroscuroa monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color collage, montagea paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image foil, transparencypicture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector computer graphic, graphican image that is generated by a computer iconographythe images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject inseta small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one likeness, semblancepicture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing cyclorama, diorama, panoramaa picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene reflection, reflexionthe image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material) CAT scan, scanan image produced by scanning echogram, sonograman 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 grisaillechiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief Identikit, Identikit picturea likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought photomontagea montage that uses photographic images portrait, portrayalany likeness of a person, in any medium lantern slide, slidea transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector overhead, viewgrapha transparency for use with an overhead projector representation a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something 2n a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church Syn|Hyper ikon painting, picture graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface 3n (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 Hyper symbol an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance |
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