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Icon vs Butsudan - What's the difference?

icon | butsudan |

As nouns the difference between icon and butsudan

is that icon is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion while butsudan is a buddhist shrine, comprising a wooden cabinet with doors that enclose and protect a religious icon.

icon

English

(wikipedia icon)

Alternative forms

* eikon, ikon

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * aniconic, aniconism * iconism

    Anagrams

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    butsudan

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A Buddhist shrine, comprising a wooden cabinet with doors that enclose and protect a religious icon.