Icon

['aɪkɒn;-k(ə)n] or ['aɪkɑn]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church.

(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.

校對:普拉特--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

校對:莫蒂默

解釋/意思:

n. a figure esp. in the Greek Church representing Christ or a saint in painting mosaic &c.—adj. Icon′ic.—n. Iconog′raphy the art of illustration.—adj. Iconomat′ic expressing ideas by means of pictured objects.—ns. Iconomat′icism; Iconoph′ilism a taste for pictures &c.; Iconoph′ilist a connoisseur of pictures &c.; Iconos′tasis a wooden wall which in Byzantine churches separates the choir from the nave—the icons are placed on it.

錄入:弗农