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adjective - Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.
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noun (plural iconographies)
- A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art
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noun
- The property of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
- (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
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noun
- Japanese flower arrangement.
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noun - The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
- festive, Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
- adornment, Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
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noun - 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.
- That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
- A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
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noun
- 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.
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verb (imbricat, ing) (transitive and intransitive)
- to overlap in a regular pattern
adjective
- having regular overlapping edges; intertwined
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noun
- In painting, the use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image.
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noun
- 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
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noun
- a decorative form of Italian wood inlaying
- a knitted design resembling a mosaic
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| isometric |
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noun
- A line connecting isometric points.
adjective
- Of, or exhibiting equality in dimensions
- Of, or being a geometric system of three equal axes lying at right angles to each other (especially in crystallography).
- (physiology) Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle remains the same
- (physics) (of a thermodynamic process) taking place at constant volume because of being confined by rigid boundaries
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