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This is extremely challenging, which explains why there are so few. The idea is that the word looks like a picture of what it says: "bed" looks like a side view of a 4 post bed. "gun" looks like a gun (depending on the font used) because the tail of the "g" is the trigger and the "un" is the barrel.
PLEASE contribute if you know of any more.
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skipvia, I should have been more specific, maybe. I'm looking for words that make a little picture of the meaning. Loop has the loops IN it, but doesn't resemble one in it's totality. Just like "boob".
I realized that "gun" works better with certain fonts, too, which is limiting.
I think eye kind of matches the meaning because it has something that resembles an ocular apparatus on each side (with a bag underneath, which is unkindly realistic) and a sort of dribbly nose in the middle (ok, ok, it's winter where I am now). So I can see a face with the eyes to the left and right. Perhaps I'm a mangosteen.
The capital I kind of stands out like a proud individual, even calling to mind a torso with (stubby) limbs. Of course, Wordie makes everything lowercase so the effect is slightly lost, though the dot makes a keen neckless head.
Keep these suggestions coming, they are all really amusing, even the ones that are too much of a stretch to actually appear in this list. Basically, if you have to explain how the word applies to my heading, it probably doesn't. That being said, I'm still loving the "two giraffes in the horizon", and happy to have it as a comment. And "wienerdog" goes in because, common, how often does one get to use that term?
PEAK, if you turn the page 90 degrees to right, looks like a tallish guy with a peaked cap that is turned sideways, rapper-style. He even has 2 little legs poking out from under his baggy trousers.
How about sereneness (or serene), undulate and fidgety? They're on my Reflexive list along with a few others because the pattern of their letters above or below the line.
rolig commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
nice!
December 20, 2007
skipvia commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
How about loop?
December 20, 2007
reesetee commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
Curl?
December 20, 2007
arcadia commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
skipvia, I should have been more specific, maybe. I'm looking for words that make a little picture of the meaning. Loop has the loops IN it, but doesn't resemble one in it's totality. Just like "boob".
I realized that "gun" works better with certain fonts, too, which is limiting.
Thanks, though.
December 20, 2007
skipvia commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
"Loop" looks pretty loopy when written in cursive.
Someday you'll have to explain "boob" to me...
December 20, 2007
uselessness commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
Hmm, how about word? ;-)
December 20, 2007
skipvia commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
Jeez--you're right, U. "Word" looks exactly like...ummm...word.
December 20, 2007
jennarenn commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
What a neat idea!
December 20, 2007
bilby commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
I think eye kind of matches the meaning because it has something that resembles an ocular apparatus on each side (with a bag underneath, which is unkindly realistic) and a sort of dribbly nose in the middle (ok, ok, it's winter where I am now). So I can see a face with the eyes to the left and right. Perhaps I'm a mangosteen.
December 20, 2007
uselessness commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
The capital I kind of stands out like a proud individual, even calling to mind a torso with (stubby) limbs. Of course, Wordie makes everything lowercase so the effect is slightly lost, though the dot makes a keen neckless head.
December 20, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
four (having four letters)?
December 20, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
feet (pointing toward each other)
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
wienerdog (layingdown with raised ears and his tail in front of the little guy at the end)
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
look two giraffes in the horizon
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
stepped on doggypoop
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
two citybirds (the dots)
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
subway staircase (the y)
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
hey did anyone see the new logo for the olympics 2012??? is it just me going nuts or can you also see marge simpson blowing a dude?
December 21, 2007
arcadia commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
Keep these suggestions coming, they are all really amusing, even the ones that are too much of a stretch to actually appear in this list. Basically, if you have to explain how the word applies to my heading, it probably doesn't. That being said, I'm still loving the "two giraffes in the horizon", and happy to have it as a comment. And "wienerdog" goes in because, common, how often does one get to use that term?
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
hehe no problem arcadia, i really like your list (now one of my favorites)
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
shark
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
mom
December 21, 2007
mollydot commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
tall
sesquipedalian (in the same way as word)
bumpy?
four
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
weight
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
houseboat
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
mobydick
December 21, 2007
bilby commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
PEAK, if you turn the page 90 degrees to right, looks like a tallish guy with a peaked cap that is turned sideways, rapper-style. He even has 2 little legs poking out from under his baggy trousers.
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
look four giggling snowmen out of line
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
peopleataconcert
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
i can't find my socks - oh there they are
December 21, 2007
desilutrek commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
a slight exaggeration for effect ...
milllllllllllllipede
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
initials
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
centimeter
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
hammock
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
bench
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
a scientist looking at a string of dna from a monkey
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
fence
December 21, 2007
mollusque commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
How about sereneness (or serene), undulate and fidgety? They're on my Reflexive list along with a few others because the pattern of their letters above or below the line.
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
scrubbery
December 21, 2007
desilutrek commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
droMedary
feces
Valley
December 21, 2007
michaelchang commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
shArk (probably better)
December 22, 2007
whichbe commented on the list the-visual-matches-the-meaning
I love the idea for this list, it's sort of like a calligramme. Don't abandon it!
May 14, 2008