Thesaurus results for PICTOGRAPH

pictograph

noun

Definition of pictograph

as in symbol

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as in drawing

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Recent Examples of pictograph 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 Visitors should allow plenty of daylight hours to find and view the artwork, including some petroglyphs and pictographs that can only be viewed after a short walk. — Gary Stoller, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2026 Arabic is the outcome of centuries of trade, innovation and communication, never letting go of the beauty of symbols, pictographs and glyphs. — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026 Not For Radio and Suki Waterhouse were among those teased early via pictographs on Lollapalooza social media accounts. — Doug George, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pictograph

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Noun

The musicians formed symbols across the field as the performance unfolded, drawing the crowd’s attention away from football and toward one of the traditions that has made FAMU recognizable far beyond Tallahassee.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2026
Governments on both sides of the Channel have hailed its loan as a symbol of a Franco-British friendship.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of symbol

Noun

Not only did the client and architect scale back the building’s height based on the events in New York, but also, the drawings for that scheme were never publicly released.

— Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
But, even more specifically, the story is in dialogue with the British artist David Austen’s minimal and piercing drawings.

— Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of drawing

Noun

Can a machine effortlessly extract your product’s key attributes, exact pricing, stock levels and shipping policies in less than a second?

— Narendra Lakshmana Gowda, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Several young goalkeepers had been bought by Premier League clubs the previous summer, leaving Newcastle feeling there was a paucity of options, though Hornicek’s all-round attributes caught the attention of Ross Wilson, their sporting director.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Both squads wore shirts with player names removed from the back, replaced by seven pictograms representing different categories of disability.

— Sam Leveridge, Forbes.com, 24 Mar. 2026
Composed of pictograms, the Azcatitlán’s 25 folios feature a succession of Aztec rulers, and dramatize the arrival of Hernán Cortés and Christianity.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026

Definition of pictogram

Noun

Later, when offices overtook factories as the emblem of work, efficiency became more abstract.

— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
Begin at the Fountain of Neptune, whose trident inspired the emblem Mario Maserati designed for the company, first used in 1926.

— Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of emblem

Noun

Light enters, and an image is reflected, but one’s consciousness is scaleable, elastic, shrinkable to the space within the glass.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
By now, Donohue would have been confident that Haaland was factually onside, but there was still the final stage, which is to approve an image that would be sent to the broadcasters.

— Graham Scott, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of image

Noun

As promulgated last month, ballots must use envelopes with an election-mail logo that can to be scanned using high-speed processing equipment and contain a barcode unique to each voter.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026
The Georgia Bulldog logo has showed up for years on hats, shirts and pennants, but the state Board of Regents has decided that the appearance of the familiar canine on toilet seats and obscene posters is going too far.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of logo

Noun

The Katonah Museum of Art is an unexpected stop for rotating exhibitions of cross-disciplinary visual art, while Philip Johnson’s Glass House in nearby New Canaan is also worth a half-day excursion.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2026
Editor Cam McLauchlin never cuts them into mere blitzes of limbs and blood, though DP Katelin Arizmendi’s acidic palette of yellows, greens and corporeal streaks of red does lend the realism a kind of pop-art splendor.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

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