Gadget vs Icon - What's the difference?
gadget | icon |
(obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey
* 1886 , Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper :
any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
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 gadget and icon
is that gadget is (obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey while icon is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.gadget
English
(wikipedia gadget)Alternative forms
* gadjetNoun
(en noun)- Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet , or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem. , you know.
- He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.
- That's quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?
Synonyms
* contraption * contrivance * doohickey * gizmo * widgetDerived terms
* gadgetyAnagrams
* English placeholder terms ----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.