different between stylize vs iconography

English

Alternative forms

• stylise (Commonwealth)

Etymology

style +? -ize. Probably from German stilisieren.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sta?la?z/

Verb

stylize (third-person singular simple present stylizes, present participle stylizing, simple past and past participle stylized)

1. (transitive) To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
2. (transitive) To represent (someone or something) abstractly in a conventional manner, commonly fancifully symbolic, to identify a particular item, by omitting most of the detail that is not unique to the item in question.

   Each of the standard therbligs is represented by its own conventional stylized symbol. For example the therblig for "search" consists of two intersecting curves representing an eye, with a third curve in one corner suggesting looking sideways in searching, whereas the therblig for "find" shows a similar two curves, but with a central circle suggesting that the eye is looking directly at a found object.

Anagrams

• zestily

English

Etymology

From icon +? -o- +? -graphy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

iconography (countable and uncountable, plural iconographies)

1. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
2. The art of representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons.

3. The study of representative art in general.

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