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pictograph

[pik-tuh-graf, -grahf] / ˈpɪk təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /


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Together, the roof and the tower give the chapel a beguiling silhouette that can suggest anything from a giant pictograph to an abstract sculpture.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

More specifically, because I read some signs, I can tell you that the petroglyphs are more than 2,000 years old, and also that a petroglyph is cut into stone; a pictograph is painted on stone.

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2024

I’ve lost my appetite for cricket, so I tap on the pictograph of a lab-generated wrap produced from plant cells and lamb genes, then scan my hand.

From Slate Feb. 26, 2022

As emojis come to represent the world more specifically and fully, they collide with the thorny reality that they reduce to a pictograph.

From The New Yorker Jul. 22, 2019

In the first room there is a pictograph of a man, in the second a semicircle, both done in light-green paint.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos




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