Symbol vs Emblem - What's the difference?
symbol | emblem |
A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
Any object, typically material, which is meant to represent another (usually abstract) even if there is no meaningful relationship.
(linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
Visible traces or impressions, made using a writing device or tool, that are connected together and/or are slightly separated. Sometimes symbols represent objects or events that occupy space or things that are not physical and do not occupy space.
(crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
* Jeremy Taylor
Share; allotment.
* Jeremy Taylor
To symbolize.
A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.
* Shakespeare
Something which represents a larger whole.
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Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
Emblem is a synonym of symbol.
As nouns the difference between symbol and emblem
is that symbol is a character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object while emblem is a representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.As a verb symbol
is to symbolize.symbol
English
Noun
(en noun)- $ is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.
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- ' is the octothorpe symbol .
- ''Chinese people use word symbols for writing.
- The lion is the symbol''' of courage; the lamb is the '''symbol of meekness or patience.
- The dollar symbol has no relationship to the concept of currency or any related idea.
- The Apostles, Nicene Creed and the confessional books of Protestantism, such as the Augsburg Confession of Lutheranism are considered symbols .
- They do their work in the days of peace and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague.
- The persons who are to be judged shall all appear to receive their symbol .
Derived terms
* status symbol * typographical symbolVerb
- (Tennyson)
See also
* punctuationExternal links
* * ----emblem
English
Noun
(en noun)- The trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross and were not supposed to be targeted.
- His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek.
- The rampant poverty in the ethnic slums was just an emblem of the group's disenfranchisement by the society as a whole.
- (Milton)