Synonyms for pictograph
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pik-tuh-graf, -grahf |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪk təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf |
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Définition of pictograph
Origin :- "picture or symbol representing an idea," 1851, from Latin pictus "painted," past participle of pingere "to paint" (see paint (v.)) + -graph "something written." First used in reference to American Indian writing. Related: Pictography.
- As in alphabet : noun letters of a writing system
- First, it is simply a representation of an object or a phenomenon, that is, a pictograph.
- Extract from : « Evolution in Art » by Alfred C. Haddon
- Such a figure occurs in the pictograph under consideration, where it occupies the position of the head.
- Extract from : « Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 » by Jesse Walter Fewkes
- Then, he drew with painstaking care a series of diagrams that repeated the information in pictograph form.
- Extract from : « Deepfreeze » by Robert Donald Locke
- The pictograph cut into a rock or tree, or painted upon a buffalo-skin tent, was our only record of current or past events.
- Extract from : « Indian Scout Talks » by Charles A. Eastman
- For example, the pictograph for mouth combined with pictograph for vapour expressed words.
- Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
- It is printed with a sort of movable type, and each character is a pictograph or hieroglyph.
- Extract from : « Archology and the Bible » by George A. Barton
- Anyone could read a document written in this pictograph form, if he had ever seen the objects to which the pictures referred.
- Extract from : « Introduction to the Science of Sociology » by Robert E. Park
- Fig. 214 is an Ojibwa pictograph found in Schoolcraft, I, pl.
- Extract from : « Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes » by Garrick Mallery
- The Ojibwa pictograph for sun is seen in Fig. 169, taken from Schoolcraft, loc.
- Extract from : « Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes » by Garrick Mallery
- Fig. 211 is an Ojibwa pictograph taken from Schoolcraft, loc.
- Extract from : « Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes » by Garrick Mallery
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