Icon vs Trademark - What's the difference?
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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.
(informal) distinctive, characteristic, signature
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, date=October 15
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, title=Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham
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A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
Any proprietary business, product or service name.
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As nouns the difference between icon and trademark
is that icon is an , symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion while trademark is (identification of a company's product)A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.As an adjective trademark is
distinctive, characteristic, signature.As a verb trademark is
to register something as a trademark.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
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English
(wikipedia trademark)Adjective
(-)citation, page= , passage=Riise did crash a fantastic, trademark free-kick against the bar from 25 yards but it was the Potters who increasingly posed the greater threat.}}