Icon vs Emblem - What's the difference?
icon | emblem |
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.
A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.
* Shakespeare
Something which represents a larger whole.
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Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
As nouns the difference between icon and emblem
is that icon is an , symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion while emblem is a representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.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.
Derived terms
* aniconic, aniconism * iconismAnagrams
* * * ----emblem
English
Noun
(en noun)- The trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross and were not supposed to be targeted.
- His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek.
- The rampant poverty in the ethnic slums was just an emblem of the group's disenfranchisement by the society as a whole.
- (Milton)