Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of symbolizing; symbolic significance. Also spelled
symbolisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
symbolizing ; the use ofsymbols to represent things, or the investing of things with asymbolic meaning - noun psychology The
unconscious mental representation of one thing by another
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
- noun the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
- noun the use of symbols to convey meaning
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Examples
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5/THE CULT OF BAALOL The Synthesis Projector, a machine used commonly on the Arkon worlds, made it possible to synthesize emotions and thought impressions into a holograph of 'symbolization'.
Mystery of the Anti Scheer, Karl 1976
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Still, with its focus on broadly recognizable sounds rather than on culturally specific ideas, such as peculiar symbolization for the Egyptian sun-god Ra, this new alphabetic system of writing was nothing short of a revolution.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Still, with its focus on broadly recognizable sounds rather than on culturally specific ideas, such as peculiar symbolization for the Egyptian sun-god Ra, this new alphabetic system of writing was nothing short of a revolution.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Although they're very different kinds of harvest festivals, the symbolization of a good harvest is an overflowing pot of kichdi.
Maria Rodale: A Visit to My Kitchen: Vandana Shiva Maria Rodale 2010
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But if the Hong Kong paintings are meant to recall mandalas, they certainly aren't the kind that intrigued Carl Jung with their symbolization of mythological pantheons and psycho-cultural archetypes.
G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011
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But if the Hong Kong paintings are meant to recall mandalas, they certainly aren't the kind that intrigued Carl Jung with their symbolization of mythological pantheons and psycho-cultural archetypes.
G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011
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But if the Hong Kong paintings are meant to recall mandalas, they certainly aren't the kind that intrigued Carl Jung with their symbolization of mythological pantheons and psycho-cultural archetypes.
G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011
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“The pronunciation is the actual living form of a word, that is, the word itself, of which the current spelling is only a symbolization – generally, indeed, only the traditionally-preserved symbolization of an earlier form, sometimes imperfect to begin with, still oftener corrupted in its passage to our time.” (original italics)
So where can language snobs get their doughnuts? « Motivated Grammar 2009
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But if the Hong Kong paintings are meant to recall mandalas, they certainly aren't the kind that intrigued Carl Jung with their symbolization of mythological pantheons and psycho-cultural archetypes.
G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011
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But if the Hong Kong paintings are meant to recall mandalas, they certainly aren't the kind that intrigued Carl Jung with their symbolization of mythological pantheons and psycho-cultural archetypes.
G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith G. Roger Denson 2011
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