Hieroglyph vs Icon - What's the difference?
hieroglyph | icon |
An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
(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).
Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.
As nouns the difference between hieroglyph and icon
is that hieroglyph is an element of an ideographic (hieroglyphic) writing system while icon is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.icon
English
(wikipedia icon)Alternative forms
* eikon, ikonNoun
(en noun)- That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.