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Icon   /ˈaɪkɑn/   Listen
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noun
(Also spelled ikon)
1.
(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.
2.
A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.  Synonyms: ikon, image, picture.  "A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
3.
A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church.  Synonym: ikon.



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"Icon" Quotes from Famous Books



... ecclesiastical organizations which have never yet been able to utter the truth, because they have had to speak to the poor according to their ignorance and credulity, and to the rich according to their power. When I read that the icon of the Russian peasant is a religious force that will prevail over the materialism of Helmholtz and Haeckel, I have to contain myself as best I can in the face of an assumption by a modern educated European which implies that the Irish peasants who tied scraps of rag to the trees ...
— New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 - From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index • Various
... a sheet-iron contraption in the shape of a pocket inkstand, and it stood on a perch in the corner, like a Russian icon, with a small blue flame flickering beneath it. It looked as though its sire might have been a snare-drum and its dam a dark lantern, and that it got its looks from its father and its heating powers from the mother's ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb
... inhabit, near the forest of Saint-Germain, beyond the fashionable avenues, the villa, ornamented with the holy Muscovite icon, which Prince Tchereteff had purchased; and she persisted in remaining there alone with old Vogotzine, who regarded her respectfully with his round eyes, always ...
— Prince Zilah, Complete • Jules Claretie
... with Rank Order pages are easily identified with a small bar chart icon to the right of ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... and twitched in every fibre of his battered countenance, raised his eyes to the icon and articulated, "God blast me! Strike me blind and lay me out, if I said a single word about you! May I be left without house and home, may I be stricken with worse ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov


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