adjective

1. Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.

noun (plural iconographies)

1. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art

noun

1. The property of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
2. (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.

noun

1. Japanese flower arrangement.

noun

1. The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
   
2. festive, Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
   
3. adornment, Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.

noun

1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
   
2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
   
3. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

noun

1. a person who draws pictures (especially illustrations in books or magazines)

Terry is one of the best illustrators of children's books in the country.

verb (imbricat, ing) (transitive and intransitive)

1. to overlap in a regular pattern

adjective

1. having regular overlapping edges; intertwined

noun

1. In painting, the use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image.

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noun

1. a design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something

• 1973: On a wooden pub sign daringly taken, one daylight raid, by a drunken Bartley Gobbitch, across which still survives in the legend SNIPE AND SHAFT, Teddy Bloat is mincing bananas with a great isosceles knife " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

noun

1. a decorative form of Italian wood inlaying
2. a knitted design resembling a mosaic

noun

1. A line connecting isometric points.

adjective

1. Of, or exhibiting equality in dimensions
2. Of, or being a geometric system of three equal axes lying at right angles to each other (especially in crystallography).
3. (physiology) Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle remains the same
4. (physics) (of a thermodynamic process) taking place at constant volume because of being confined by rigid boundaries