Picture vs. Icon

Picturenoun

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.

Picturenoun

An image; a representation as in the imagination.

Picturenoun

A painting.

Picturenoun

A photograph.

Picturenoun

(informal) A motion picture.

Picturenoun

Cinema as a form of entertainment.

Picturenoun

A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).

Picturenoun

An attractive sight.

Picturenoun

The art of painting; representation by painting.

Picturenoun

A figure; a model.

Picturenoun

Situation.

Pictureverb

(transitive) To represent in or with a picture.

Pictureverb

(transitive) To imagine or envision.

Pictureverb

(transitive) To depict.

Picturenoun

The art of painting; representation by painting.

Picturenoun

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.

Picturenoun

An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.

Pictureverb

To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.

Picturenoun

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

Picturenoun

graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface;

Picturenoun

a clear and telling mental image;

Picturenoun

a situation treated as an observable object;

Picturenoun

illustrations used to decorate or explain a text;

Picturenoun

a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;

Picturenoun

the visible part of a television transmission;

Picturenoun

a graphic or vivid verbal description;

Picturenoun

a typical example of some state or quality;

Pictureverb

imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

Pictureverb

show in, or as in, a picture;

Iconnoun

An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.

Iconnoun

A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.

Iconnoun

A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.

Iconnoun

(computing) A small picture that represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)

Iconnoun

(linguistics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also symbol and index.

Iconnoun

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Iconnoun

A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church. The term is used especially for a highly stylized and conventionalized representation of a holy person, rich in symbolism and used in devotional services in many of the eastern Orthodox churches, especially the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches.

Iconnoun

a symbol, especially a symbol whose form suggests its meaning or the object it represents.

Iconnoun

a graphical symbol for a data object whose form suggests the nature or function of the object; especially, such a symbol as viewed on the computer screen.

Iconnoun

any object of uncritical devotion.

Iconnoun

an outstanding example of something which has come to represent the class of things to which it belongs; a paragon; used of persons as well as objects.

Iconnoun

(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface

Iconnoun

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

Iconnoun

a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church

Iconnoun

a devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically executed on wood and used ceremonially in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.

Iconnoun

a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration

Iconnoun

a symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window.

Iconnoun

a sign which has a characteristic in common with the thing it signifies, for example the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way.

Icon

An icon (from the Greek εἰκών eikṓn 'image, resemblance') is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, and certain Eastern Catholic churches. They are not simply artworks; .