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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : id-ee-uh-graf, -grahf, ahy-dee- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪd i əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈaɪ di- |
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Définition of ideograph
Origin :- late 1830s, from comb. form of Greek idea (see idea) + -graph "instrument for recording; something written." Related: Ideographic (1822); ideographical.
- As in alphabet : noun letters of a writing system
- The picture, the ideograph, the symbol—these are not the thing.
- Extract from : « Breaking Point » by James E. Gunn
- For example, the ideograph for a "mess-mate" is a man and a fire.
- Extract from : « Instigations » by Ezra Pound
- Its ideograph is the sign of the sun together with the sign of the moon.
- Extract from : « Instigations » by Ezra Pound
- Most of these symbols are compounded of an ideograph and a letter of the alphabet.
- Extract from : « Indo-China and Its Primitive People » by Henry Baudesson
- Thus a chessboard was an ideograph, and stood for a gift, and sometimes a building.
- Extract from : « Cleopatra's Needle » by James King
- Thus the name of Ea, the god of the deep, is expressed by an ideograph which signifies 'antelope.'
- Extract from : « Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria » by Lewis Spence
- Merodach's ideograph is the sun, and there is abundant evidence that he was first and last a solar god.
- Extract from : « Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria » by Lewis Spence
- The “chop” was a small stamp bearing the ideograph which indicated the name Candron was using.
- Extract from : « What The Left Hand Was Doing » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- Candron imprinted the ideograph on the page, then, beside it, he wrote “Ying Lee” in Latin characters.
- Extract from : « What The Left Hand Was Doing » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- Ideograph′ic, -al, representing ideas by pictures, or directly instead of words.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
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