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Icon   /ˈaɪkɑn/   Listen
Icon

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



... place, a suggestion as of funerals. Opposite the door, two tall windows, like sepulchral portals, framed oblongs of the outer darkness; and the white-tiled stove in the corner was like a mausoleum. The cheap parquet of the floor had a clammy gleam; a tiny icon, roosting high in a corner, showed a tawdry shine of gilding; the whole room, square and lofty, with its sparse furniture grouped stiffly about its emptiness, was gaunt and forbidding. Of a personality that should be at home within it and ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon
... oil, water-colour, or pastel. The weak point of Bulgarian artists is undoubtedly undraped figures, especially undraped feminine figures, the only exception being Stephan Ivanoff, who however abandoned this class of work to become the best icon-painter in Bulgaria. ...
— Bulgaria • Frank Fox
... 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 ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb
... messengers who had served Jehovah had certainly prospered well; but Jehovah Himself appeared to be on the decline. His Unity was steadily disintegrating into a paradoxical Trinity. Why, therefore, not give Allah, the leading icon in Arabia, an opportunity? Such considerations quite probably never entered the head of Mohammed with any definiteness; yet his behavior for the rest of his days seems to indicate that these, or similar conceptions, were subconsciously ...
— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks


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