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Definition: Pictograph |
PictographNoun1. A graphic character used in picture writing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pictograph" was first used: 1851. (references) |
Note: Pictograph \Pic"to*graph\, noun. [See Picture, and -graph.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Statistics | A method of visual presentation of statistical quantities by means of drawings or pictures of the subject matter under discussion. The method is restricted to the presentation of simple relationships and in order to overcome the unsatisfactory nature of crude comparisons by the eye of objects of different size it is now customary to represent a unit value of the data by a standard symbol and present the appropriate number of repetitions of this standard symbol to depict the magnitude under discussion. This virtually changes the style of the diagram to a pictorial bar-chart. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pictogram for public toiletsA pictogram or pictograph is a symbol which represents a concept or an object by illustration.
Early written characters were based on pictograms and ideograms, it is commonly believed that pictograms appeared before ideograms. Pictograms remain in common use today; for example the symbols on public toilets for "men" and "women."
Because pictograms do not depend on language, places such as airports and train stations use them for signposting. However, they can depend on culture—in the case of toilets, in some cultures men commonly wear dress-like clothing.
A standard set of pictograms was defined in the international standard ISO 7001: Public Information Symbols. Another common set of pictograms are the laundry symbols used on clothing tags.
See also: Pictography, emoticon
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pictogram."
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictograph located on large rock in sagebrush area. Credit: Unknown. |  | Pictograph. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pictograph, John W. Alexander, N.A., Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Pictograph Cave" by Paige Foster Commentary: "One of the caves at Pictograph State Park in Montana." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pictograph | 29 |
example pictograph | 4 |
chinese pictograph | 3 |
cave pictograph | 2 |
pictograph signage | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pictograph"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 象形文字 (hieroglyph). (various references) | |
Dutch | pictogram (icon), beeldstatistiek, beelddiagram (isotype method, pictogram, picture diagram). (various references) | |
Finnish | piktogrammi (isotype method, pictogram, picture diagram), tilastokuvio (isotype method, pictogram, picture diagram). (various references) | |
French | graphique figuratif (pictogram, picture diagram), diagramme figuratif (pictogram, picture diagram), diagramme à images (pictogram, picture diagram). (various references) | |
German | Piktogramm (pictogram). (various references) | |
Greek | ιερόγλυφο, εικών συμβολίζουσα ιδέαν, εικονόγραμμα (isotype method, pictogram, picture diagram). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szimbolikus kép. (various references) | |
Italian | pittogramma (isotype method, pictogram, picture, picture diagram, symbol), pictogramma (isotype method, pictogram, picture diagram), diagramma simbolico (isotype method, pictogram, picture diagram), diagramma a figure (isotype method, pictogram, picture diagram). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 絵文字 (ideograph), 絵グラフ , ピギーバック輸送 (10^-12, pf, picket, pickles, picnic, pico-, picofarad, picot, picture, piggyback system, pique, Pisa, pixar, pixel, Pygmy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ピクトグラフ , えグラフ, えもじ (ideograph). (various references) | |
Korean | 상형문자. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ictographpay.(various references) | |
Romanian | pictogramã, ideogramã (ideogram). (various references) | |
Russian | пиктограмма. (various references) | |
Spanish | pictograma (isotype method, pictogram, picture diagram, symbol), pictografía (pictography, picture writing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | піктограма (pictogram). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pictus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pictograph": pictographic, pictographies, pictographs, pictography. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pictograph" (pronounced 'Pic"to*graph'): Accelerograph, Actinograph, Allograph, Anaglyptograph, Anagraph, Anapnograph, Anemograph, Anemometrograph, Antigraph, Apograph, Arcograph, Autochronograph, Barograph, Barometrograph, Barothermograph, Bibliograph, Brontograph, Cardiagraph, Cardiograph, Cardiosphygmograph, Cerograph, Chirograph, Chorograph, Chromograph, Chromolithograph, Chromophotograph, Chronograph, Chronophotograph, Cinematograph, Cinemograph, Comptograph, Copygraph, Cryptograph, Curvograph, Cyclograph, Dynamograph, Fluviograph, Galvanograph, Glyphograph, holograph, homograph, ideograph, kymograph, Macrograph, Magnetograph, Manograph, Marconigraph, Mechanograph, Melodiograph, Melograph. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-o-p-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: agitprop, atrophic. | |
-3 letters: aphotic, apricot, aprotic, argotic, chariot, choragi, graphic, haricot, parotic, trophic. | |
-4 letters: aortic, aright, atopic, captor, carhop, cartop, coppra, coprah, gothic, haptic, orgiac, orphic, phatic, photic, picaro, ragtop, righto, thoria, thoric, tragic, tropic. | |
-5 letters: actor, airth, aitch, aport, argot, atrip, cargo, carpi, chair, chapt, chart, chiao, chiro, chirp, choir, cigar, coapt, coati. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-o-p-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: pictographs, pictography, topographic, typographic. | |
+2 letters: pantographic, petrographic, photographic, pictographic. | |
+3 letters: cryptographic, pictographies, topographical, typographical. | |
+4 letters: cryptographies, petrographical, spectrographic. | |
+5 letters: microphotograph, nonphotographic, photomicrograph, phytogeographic, spectrographies, topographically, typographically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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