Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A picture representing a word or idea; a hieroglyph.
- n. A record in hieroglyphic symbols.
- n. A pictorial representation of numerical data or relationships, especially a graph, but having each value represented by a proportional number of pictures.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pictorial symbol or sign, or a record or writing composed of such pictorial signs: as, the pictographs of the North American Indians.
Wiktionary
- n. a picture that represents a word or an idea; a hieroglyph
- n. a graphic character
- n. a graph that represents numerical data using pictures.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a graphic character used in picture writing
Etymologies
- Latin pictus, past participle of pingere, to paint; see peig- in Indo-European roots + -graph. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The pictograph is a good idea, but it's not required.”
“Made with crimson and amber velvet and metallic thread, it's a smooth adaptation of the artist's Jung-inspired "pictograph" paintings.”
“pictograph" rather than give what a dramatic critic calls "a solid and studied rendering" of events.”
“I am told that the Chinese pictograph for busyness is composed of two characters: Heart-plus-Killing.”
The Huffington Post: Rev. Anne Howard: Grads: You Are Not Amazing
“Geek 6 serves up a pictograph of The ebb and flow of sci-fi and fantasy on television. [via io9]”
“Between the two lines is a strange pictograph making one curious and interested.”
“Mister B. Gone” by Clive Barker (Harpercollins, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
“Steve Hebert for The Wall Street Journal In the dining room there's a five-panel Egyptian pictograph spanning the length of one wall.”
“In the dining room there's a five-panel Egyptian pictograph spanning the length of one wall.”
“Produced by hip Danish furniture label Hay, it suggests a pictograph.”
“In "Birds" (2009), her forms suggest sun, cloud, ladder, worm, nut and tree; we're given the bird's flight, pictograph and plumage.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pictograph’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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graphs
lithograph, homograph, topography, psychogeography, typography, pictograph, polygraph, cinematography, stenographer, cartography, choreographer, oceanographer and 24 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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Bibliophilia
codex, matrix, patrix, caesura, incunabulum, syllabic, pictograph, scribe, vernacular, iambic, trochaic, pentameter and 36 more...
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All dressed up and no place to go
another toybox where I can put words I want to play with later.
toybox, excrescence, greengrocer, sequin, gehenna, ingenuous, disingenuous, cavil, ingenius, exsanguination, pictograph, postulate and 31 more...
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The Writing on the Wall
Or the pictures. Or the ads. You get the idea. :-)
petroglyph, pictograph, pictogram, graffiti, pintada, ideogram, billboard, signboard, placard, poster, plaque, affiche and 5 more...
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the library
vellum, watermark, dustjacket, chapbook, bookplate, edition, inscribed, signed, haiku, ode, limerick, sonnet and 70 more...
Tweets
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