icon

noun

1. a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel
venerated in the Eastern Church

Synonym: ikon

2. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

e.g. they showed us the pictures of their wedding
a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them

Synonym: pictureimageikon

3. (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface

1. 偶像;代表人物
If you describe something or someone as an icon, you mean that they are important as a symbol of a particular thing.

e.g. Only Marilyn has proved as enduring a fashion icon.
只有玛丽莲是常青的时尚偶像。
e.g. ...Picasso and the other icons of modernism.
毕加索和现代主义的其他代表人物

2. 圣像(如基督、圣母马利亚等)
An icon is a picture of Christ, his mother, or a saint painted on a wooden panel.

icon的意思

3. 图标
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.

1. 图符：为了适应不同用户对多媒体技术的需要,Commodore公司提供一个多任务Amiga操作系统,它有上下拉的菜单,多窗口,图符(Icon)以及PM(Presentation Manager)等功能.

2. icon：intelligent console; 智能控制台

3. icon：integrated console; 公家有钱

4. icon：integrated control; 综合控制