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Symbolic vs Semantic - What's the difference?

symbolic | semantic |

As adjectives the difference between symbolic and semantic

is that symbolic is pertaining to a symbol while semantic is of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words.

symbolic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a symbol.
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    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
  • Referring to something with an implicit meaning.

    • Derived terms

    * symbolical * symbolically * symbolics

    Related terms

    * symbol * symbolisation Br. * symbolise Br. * symbolistic * symbolization * symbolize * symbolism * symbolist * symbology * symbolology

    semantic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words.
  • (software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
  • Petty]] or trivial; (of a person or statement) quibbling, [[niggle, niggling.

    • Derived terms

    * antisemantic * semantically * semantic change * semantic field * semantic shift

    Related terms

    * seme * sememe * semantics * semasiology * sematic * sematology * semiotic * semiotics

    References

    * (Semantic Web) * * * * " Semantic code: What? Why? How?" in boagworld. *

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