ALL meanings of icon
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I i - noun Technical meaning of icon (language) A descendant of SNOBOL4 with Pascal-like syntax, produced by Griswold in the 1970's. Icon is a general-purpose language with special features for string scanning. It has dynamic types: records, sets, lists, strings, tables. If has some object oriented features but no modules or exceptions. It has a primitive Unix interface. The central theme of Icon is the generator: when an expression is evaluated it may be suspended and later resumed, producing a result sequence of values until it fails. Resumption takes place implicitly in two contexts: iteration which is syntactically loop-like ('every-do'), and goal-directed evaluation in which a conditional expression automatically attempts to produce at least one result. Expressions that fail are used in lieu of Booleans. Data backtracking is supported by a reversible assignment. Icon also has co-expressions, which can be explicitly resumed at any time. Version 8.8 by Ralph Griswold <[email protected]> includes an interpreter, a compiler (for some platforms) and a library (v8.8). Icon has been ported to Amiga, Atari, CMS, Macintosh, Macintosh/MPW, MS-DOS, MVS, OS/2, Unix, VMS, Acorn. See also Ibpag2. E-mail: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected] 1
- noun icon a picture, image, or other representation. 1
- noun icon Eastern Church. a representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred. 1
- noun icon a sign or representation that stands for its object by virtue of a resemblance or analogy to it: an icon of womanhood. 1
- noun icon a person or thing that is revered or idolized: Elvis Presley is a cultural icon of the 20th century. 1
- noun icon Computers. a picture or symbol that appears on a monitor and is used to represent a command, as a file drawer to represent filing. 1
- noun icon Semiotics. a sign or representation that stands for its object by virtue of a resemblance or analogy to it. 1
- noun Definition of icon in Technology (graphics) A small picture intended to represent something (a file, directory, or action) in a graphical user interface. When an icon is clicked on, some action is performed such as opening a directory or aborting a file transfer. Icons are usually stored as bitmap images. Microsoft Windows uses a special bitmap format with file name extension ".ico" as well as embedding icons in executable (".exe") and Dynamically Linked Library (DLL) files. The term originates from Alan Kay's theory for designing interfaces which was primarily based on the work of Jerome Bruner. Bruner's second developmental stage, iconic, uses a system of representation that depends on visual or other sensory organization and upon the use of summarising images. 1
- noun icon A painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches. 1
- noun icon religious artwork 1
- noun icon important person 1
- abbreviation ICON image 1
- noun icon computer symbol 1
- noun icon small symbol 1
- countable noun icon If you describe something or someone as an icon, you mean that they are important as a symbol of a particular thing. 0
- countable noun icon An icon is a picture of Christ, his mother, or a saint painted on a wooden panel. 0
- countable noun icon An icon is a picture on a computer screen representing a particular computer function. If you want to use it, you move the cursor onto the icon using a mouse. 0
- noun icon a representation of Christ, the Virgin Mary, or a saint, esp one painted in oil on a wooden panel, depicted in a traditional Byzantine style and venerated in the Eastern Church 0
- noun icon an image, picture, representation, etc 0
- noun icon a person or thing regarded as a symbol of a belief, nation, community, or cultural movement 0
- noun icon a person regarded as a sex symbol or as a symbol of the latest fashion trends 0
- noun icon a pictorial representation of a facility available on a computer system, that enables the facility to be activated by means of a screen cursor rather than by a textual instruction 0
- noun icon an image; figure; representation 0
- noun icon any of various stylized figures, as displayed on a microcomputer screen, representing available functions or resources 0
- noun icon an image or picture of Jesus, Mary, a saint, etc., venerated as sacred 0
- noun icon any person or thing that is revered 0
- noun icon someone or something regarded as embodying the essential characteristics of an era, group, etc. 0
- noun icon An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion. 0
- noun icon A religious painting, often done on wooden panels. 0
- noun icon A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing. 0
- noun icon A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.). 0
- noun icon (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also symbol and index. 0
- noun icon Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer. 0