Word Finder - icon

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

synonyms

• graven image
• idol

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(especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.

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

example

That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.

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

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A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.

The icon was carried further, accompanied by the throng.

Her brother would have taken the icon, but she stopped him.

Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will never take it off.

This icon of the Venerable Sergius, the servant of God and zealous champion of old of our country's weal, is offered to Your Imperial Majesty.

Clicking on the desktop icon labeled 'Carmen' she started reading.

The Easter bunny is a beloved icon of the holiday.

What will become of us if she dies, as I always fear when her face is like that? thought he, and placing himself before the icon he began to say his evening prayers.

Well, he took that icon home with him for a few days and what did he do?

Click on the icon to download a free copy.

She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand.

Tomorrow after dinner I shall take the Iberian icon of the Mother of God to the wounded in the Catherine Hospital where we will have some water blessed.

His father keeps a cookshop here by the Stone Bridge, and you know there was a large icon of God Almighty painted with a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other.

The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the little gold icon Princess Mary had hung round her brother's neck, but seeing the favor the Emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to return the holy image.

Boris Drubetskoy, brushing his knees with his hand (he had probably soiled them when he, too, had knelt before the icon), came up to him smiling.

Click on the printer icon to print the document.

Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest outside his uniform.

In her snug room, with lamps burning before the icon stand, a young lad with a long nose and long hair, wearing a monk's cassock, sat on the sofa beside her, behind a samovar.

When the service was over, Kutuzov stepped up to the icon, sank heavily to his knees, bowed to the ground, and for a long time tried vainly to rise, but could not do so on account of his weakness and weight.

To search click on the magnifying glass icon in the selector box.

She crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to Andrew.

About the middle of the Arbat Street, near the Church of the Miraculous Icon of St. Nicholas, Murat halted to await news from the advanced detachment as to the condition in which they had found the citadel, le Kremlin.

He is currently dating actress/singer Katie Cassidy, daughter of 1970s icon, David Cassidy.

The issue of the struggle was not a complete victory even in Byzantium for the partisans of image-worship. The iconoclasts left an indelible impress on the Christian art of the Greek Church, in so far as they put an end to the use of graven images; for the Eastern icon is a flat picture, less easily regarded than would be a statue as a nidus within which a spirit can lurk.

They will then be prompted to enter the password you assigned them before an icon of your shared folder appears on their desktop.

Good time gal and fashion icon model, Lizzie has launched to super star fame at the tender age of 20!

Once upon a time, a ' fan ' was a quasi-religious worshipper of an icon with a silly haircut.

On running SilverFast, from the desktop icon, the application instantly shut down.

There's also a padlock icon on the toolbar to do the same thing.

If an update for MDaemon is present you will see the tray icon flash and an email will be sent to the postmaster.

The group chose to use the icon of batman, a brooding psychotic loner, to represent them in this.

Behind them soldiers and officers bore a large, dark-faced icon with an embossed metal cover.

The crowd round the icon suddenly parted and pressed against Pierre.

Find the My Computer icon on the Desktop and right click it.

The Playboy Mansion is also a well-known celebrity home that has been an icon of Playboy magazine and owner Hugh Hefner.

Whitney Port, one of the most likeable characters on The Hills, moved from the warm and sunny west coast to pursue a job with famed fashion icon Diane Von Furstenburg in New York.

Double-click the shortcut icon that we just put on the desktop.

Click on the Source selector icon to open the Data Source Selector popup window.

Click on the ' report .pdf ' icon in the left margin to download a pdf of the full report free of charge.

How To 1 To access this option, click the Aliases / Forwarding icon on the main screen of your cPanel interface.

The 3D icon driven menu system is a breeze to use and the color screen makes navigating around the player extremely intuitive.

The resulting icon will join the other single-click launchers at the bottom of your screen.

New items can be added to a shopping list at any time where you see the Add to Shopping List icon.

To view a complete listing of the library, click the PDF icon below.

Icon list Shows the low-resolution C20 images, all displayed together (in order of increasing radio luminosity ).

It represents Sinai on the back, traditional icon scenes, but it is not entirely orthodox in type.

For such a world icon the study of handaxes has remained curiously parochial.

Tower Bridge is instantly recognizable - a London sight, icon even, that most of us will be able to relate to.

This is used by the visual schnauzer, which needs to load images when it generates icon files.

Hitting the ' square ' icon will enlarge the window to fill the whole screen.

The pride of the collection, and College icon, is a monumental sculpture by Barbara Hepworth.