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Icon vs Picon - What's the difference?

icon | picon |

As nouns the difference between icon and picon

is that icon is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion while picon is pickaxe (tool whose head has a pointed and a chisel edge).

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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    picon

    English

    (Sirop de Picon)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A caramel-coloured flavoured bitters made from oranges, gentian, and quinquina, traditionally accompanying beer in the east and north of France.
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