Icon vs Graphic - What's the difference?
icon | graphic |
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.
drawn, pictorial
vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence
A drawing or picture.
(mostly in plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
As nouns the difference between icon and graphic
is that icon is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion while graphic is a drawing or picture.As an adjective graphic is
drawn, pictorial.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
* * * ----graphic
English
Alternative forms
* graphick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* graphics cardNoun
(en noun)- I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.
