Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A picture representing a word, phrase, or idea, especially one used in early writing systems.
- noun A pictorial representation of numerical data or relationships, especially a graph, but having each value represented by a proportional number of pictures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pictorial symbol or sign, or a record or writing composed of such pictorial signs: as, the pictographs of the North American Indians.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
picture thatrepresents aword or anidea ; ahieroglyph - noun a
graphic character - noun a
graph that representsnumerical data using pictures.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a graphic character used in picture writing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The pictograph is a good idea, but it's not required.
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Made with crimson and amber velvet and metallic thread, it's a smooth adaptation of the artist's Jung-inspired "pictograph" paintings.
NYT > Home Page By KAREN ROSENBERG 2010
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"pictograph" rather than give what a dramatic critic calls "a solid and studied rendering" of events.
Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878
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Geek 6 serves up a pictograph of The ebb and flow of sci-fi and fantasy on television. [via io9]
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Geek 6 serves up a pictograph of The ebb and flow of sci-fi and fantasy on television. [via io9]
April 2010 2010
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I am told that the Chinese pictograph for busyness is composed of two characters: Heart-plus-Killing.
Rev. Anne Howard: Grads: You Are Not Amazing Rev. Anne Howard 2011
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I am told that the Chinese pictograph for busyness is composed of two characters: Heart-plus-Killing.
Rev. Anne Howard: Grads: You Are Not Amazing Rev. Anne Howard 2011
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I am told that the Chinese pictograph for busyness is composed of two characters: Heart-plus-Killing.
Rev. Anne Howard: Grads: You Are Not Amazing Rev. Anne Howard 2011
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I am told that the Chinese pictograph for busyness is composed of two characters: Heart-plus-Killing.
Rev. Anne Howard: Grads: You Are Not Amazing Rev. Anne Howard 2011
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I am told that the Chinese pictograph for busyness is composed of two characters: Heart-plus-Killing.
Rev. Anne Howard: Grads: You Are Not Amazing Rev. Anne Howard 2011
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