pictogram

noun

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Recent Examples of pictogram But decoding the pictograms could be a culturally and historically significant task. — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2025 Labels typically include warning pictograms and complex regulatory information in various formats. — Jeanette Rohr, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 The Indus Valley people carved about 400 symbols into stone seals—some animal pictograms, others abstract shapes. — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024 Shigetaka Kurita’s icons were monochromatic pixel pictograms, which Nicolas Loufrani describes as incredibly smart and beautiful representations of concepts on a limited 12 x 12 dot canvas. — Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for pictogram
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  1. letter
  2. pictograph
  3. hieroglyph
  4. ideogram
  5. numeral
  6. cipher
Noun
  • In a letter to university leadership, two Republican lawmakers urged the UC system to move quickly to reinstate the use of SAT and ACT scores in undergraduate admissions.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • A couple days ago, as the media frenzy continued, Wolff decided to release full letters that Harp had sent to Trump during his last Presidential campaign, missives that had reportedly alarmed the Secret Service.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of letter
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  • Reports of pictographs — American Indian picture writing — had attracted us to Missinaibi’s shores.
    — Jim Hoagland, Outdoor Life, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Each group has left its mark, from ancient cave dwellings to petroglyphs and pictographs etched into the canyon walls.
    — Debbie Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of pictograph
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  • In addition to hieroglyph texts, the interior walls feature murals depicting portraits of seated and kneeling figures, and archaeological evidence of papermaking tools.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026
  • Some examples took more direct cues—such as the collectible Egyptian Pattern bracelets and brooches similar to 1924 examples depicting hieroglyphs.
    — Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 June 2026
Definition of hieroglyph
Noun
  • That shape, whose contour resembles both an indecipherable ideogram and a flat asymmetrical spaceship, shows Parsons’s inventive side.
    — John Yau, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2026
  • This erroneous belief that all Chinese characters are ideograms — symbols that express ideas directly, without language — remains widespread today in the West.
    — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Definition of ideogram
Noun
  • The Senator Chronograph Navigator is home to a matte black dial with luminous Arabic numerals—an apt choice, given that pilot’s watches needed to be easy to read and use even under the most intense conditions.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The bicentennial was the moment of nostalgic gluttony that topped them all, with its reenactment of battles, its old-fashioned sailing ships, and its outpouring of sappy patriotic products printed with the magic numerals 76.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Definition of numeral
Noun
  • But in my view, our relationships to animals, whose lives are untouched by the existential woes and artifices of personhood, are the richest and most evident ciphers for our own often inscrutable psyches.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 June 2026
  • Consider a dashboard that shows applications, including keys and libraries; network traffic protocols and ciphers; hardware, such as HSMs and TPMs; and third-party dependencies, including cryptographic or software bills of materials.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
Definition of cipher

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“Pictogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictogram. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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