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Meaning icon meaning

What does icon mean?
Definitions in simple English

icon

An image, picture, or other representation of something. A person or thing that is the best example of something. That man is an icon in the business; he is loyal and has good business sense. A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen). Click on the icon to open the program.

icon

a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church (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 (= picture, image) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface they showed us the pictures of their wedding a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them

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Topics icon topics

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Examples icon examples

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Simple sentences

Double-click on the icon.
The fables written by Hans Christian Andersen, the most famous Dane in the world, made him an icon of world literature.
This function takes two parameters, the first one is the title of the window, the second one will be the title of the icon.
This famous actress was also a fashion icon.
Double-click the icon.
To use an item simply click on its icon in the inventory.
To change the flag, click on the flag icon and choose the correct language.
To change the flag, click on the flag icon.
To edit a sentence, click on the pencil icon.
To adopt a sentence, click on the white person icon.
To release a sentence, click on the black person icon.
To add a sentence to your list of favorites, click on the white heart icon.
To remove a sentence from your list of favorites, click on the black heart icon.

Movie subtitles

I described you as a feminist icon.
And at the icon workshop Alexei was learning the art.
You're an icon painter, which means you must paint gaily, like the Italians.
I shall never be what my father has planned for me when he raised the icon to bless me and Totsky.
Yes, the moment I showed him the icon he disappeared without any explanation.
The ancient words on the icon explain exactly what must be done.
The inscription on the icon indicates the only way.
I wasted a week on an icon once.
For three years I was cleaning brushes for Danil before he let me touch an icon.
One night, the Tzar of Russia made a killing and gave me an icon that was later stolen from me in Athens.
I want you to swear on this icon.
By the way, i've acquired a wonderful icon.
And then I must restore the icon inside.
This morning, at exactly 5:18 a. m here at ICON's Institute for Data Analysis we installed the final module on the artificial intelligence system which we call Proteus Four.
This icon. You're supposed to have seen it before. Remember?
You mean, the old icon?
My late mother blessed me with this icon.
Yes, the moment I showed him the icon. He disappeared without any explanation.
I considered you the wild great male icon, you monster!
I washed Danila's brushes for 3 years before he trusted me with an icon.
This time, at a soiree at Scherer's, they were reading the letter sent by the Metropolitan to the Czar along with an icon of Saint Sergey.
A young man like you would make a woman into an icon.
End of notes for the next meeting of the ICON executive committee.
Hey I have a boy beautiful like an icon. Hey I have a boy beautiful like an icon.
Hey not even every icon is not like that. Hey not even every icon is not like that.
You and your pompous ICON buddies inside that mountainside.
ICON is testing the wind.
Proteus, you're gonna get many requests from me, from my colleagues, scientists, foreign governments from ICON, the company for which we both work.
So ICON's miracle leukemia drug will now enter full-scale tests on human sufferers.

News and current affairs

He has been an icon, representing the ability to strike with success against the US and the West.
That icon has now been destroyed.
Now it is an icon of our democracy's unfulfilled promises.
He was an icon among his fellow countrymen - indeed, for his 70th birthday, the largest newspaper in Poland organized a celebration during which they crowned him (with a crown of laurel leaves, of course) . the King of Europe.
Indeed, the Russian Church's archbishops presented their Patriarch a golden icon, one side of which depicted the Last Supper and the other a map of his vast canonical territory, to mark the tenth anniversary of his reign.
As icon, myth, and ritual, the Nobel Prize is well secured.
Nevertheless, Zidane will remain a global icon, owing to his profoundly human character and his extreme simplicity.
Some view the man considered a mass murderer in the West as an icon, and his death and burial at sea at the hands of American forces will not undermine that perception in the eyes of his sympathizers.
Kissinger is no idealist icon.
Indeed, not long after Depardieu's change of allegiance, a French icon of an even older vintage, Brigitte Bardot, suggested that she, too, might embrace Russia.
There is also the unholy glee with which they have set about destroying an icon of the anti-global warming movement, the Nobel Laureate R.K Pachauri, by attributing financial motives to his research.
Appointing an Asian political icon would merely change the names of the players; it would not reinvent the game.
As icon, myth, and ritual, the Nobel Prize is well secured. But what do we actually know about the Nobel Prize?
Volkswagen in particular is an icon of German manufacturing.
No one in South Korea's conservative movement doubts that Park is one of them. And, as an icon of the right, she is well aware that she cannot afford to betray her status.
Despite the recent return to Russia of the icon of Our Lady of Kazan that once hung in John Paul's bedroom, relations between the Vatican and the Patriarchate remain strained.
But one does not have to be a security icon to see how Netanyahu has burned Israel's bridges with the international community, particularly the United States, Israel's most indispensable ally and benefactor.

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