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/ˈaɪ.kɒn/ · noun
An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion..
Last week the Archdiocese sent emmissaries to investigate the icon and decided that the tears were not a hoax, Father Koufos said.
That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
Only a handful of rock musicians have become genuine icons - larger-than-life symbolic figures whose personal triumphs and vicissitudes seem to mirror the ups and downs of rock as a whole, and sometimes of the society that nurtures it. Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments.
Barbie is viewed as an icon of American culture in her new biography, Barbie: Her Life and Times (Crown, $25), written by Billy Boy, a clothing and jewelry designer in Paris.
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The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar. It contains 21 icons, each of which allows the user to perform a specified function with but a few clicks of the mouse.
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Use icon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Icon means An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion..
Common synonyms include idol, graven image, archetype, byspel.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Last week the Archdiocese sent emmissaries to investigate the icon and decided that the tears were not a hoax, Father Koufos said.
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