Symbolize vs Emblem - What's the difference?
symbolize | emblem |
To be symbolic of; to represent.
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, chapter=2 To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
(obsolete) To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
* Francis Bacon
* Howell
(obsolete) To hold the same faith; to agree.
* G. S. Faber
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.
As a verb symbolize
is to be symbolic of; to represent.As a noun emblem is
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Alternative forms
* symbolise (UK )Verb
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- The pleasing of colour symbolizeth' with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth ' symbolize with harmony.
- They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
- The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.
Derived terms
* nonsymbolizingemblem
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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)