different between pictogram vs monogram

English

Etymology

picture +? -gram.

Alternative forms

• pictogramme (rare)

Noun

pictogram (plural pictograms)

1. A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.

   Synonyms: pictograph, hieroglyph

   Coordinate terms: ideogram, logogram

Usage notes

Strictly speaking, a pictogram represents by illustration, an ideogram represents an idea, and a logogram represents a word. Casually, pictogram is used to represent all of these: it is a picture representing some concept.

Synonyms

• pictograph
• hieroglyph

Related terms

• emoji
• ideogram
• logogram

Translations

Further reading

• pictogram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

pictogram n (plural pictogrammen, diminutive pictogrammetje n)

1. pictogram
2. (graphical user interface) icon

Synonyms

• (icon): icoon

English

Alternative forms

• monogramme (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From French monogramme, from the Classical Latin adjective monogrammus, from the conjectured Ancient Greek * ??????????? (monógrammos, “outlined”, “drawn with single lines”).

Noun

monogram (plural monograms)

1. (obsolete) A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.

References

• “†monogram, n.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Etymology 2

Formed as mono- +? -gram, by analogy with epigram.

Noun

monogram (plural monograms)

1. (obsolete, rare) A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry.

References

• “†monogram, n.²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Etymology 3

The noun derives from the post-Classical Latin monogrammum, itself from the Byzantine Greek ??????????? (monógrammon); compare the French and Middle French monogramme, as well as the Italian monogramma. The verb derives from the noun; compare the earlier adjective monogrammed and the slightly earlier noun monogramming.

Noun

monogram (plural monograms)

1. A design composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution.

Translations

References

• “monogram, n.³” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Verb

monogram (third-person singular simple present monograms, present participle monogramming or monograming, simple past and past participle monogrammed or monogramed)

1. (transitive) To mark something with a monogram.

Translations

References

• “monogram, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Anagrams

• nomogram

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From mono- +? -gram

Noun

monogram n (definite singular monogrammet, indefinite plural monogram or monogrammer, definite plural monogramma or monogrammene)

1. a monogram

References

• “monogram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From mono- +? -gram

Noun

monogram n (definite singular monogrammet, indefinite plural monogram, definite plural monogramma)

1. a monogram

References

• “monogram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Noun

monogram m inan

1. monogram

Declension