Icon vs Epic - What's the difference?
icon | epic |
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.
(computing) Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
(electronics) Etched and Polycrystalline carried IC.
(electronics) Epitaxial Integrated Circuit.
(legal) Estates and Protected Individuals Code.
As nouns the difference between icon and epic
is that icon is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion while epic is an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero.As an adjective epic is
of, or relating to, an epic.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.
