symbols
符号,标志
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Definitions
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- : something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.
- : a letter, figure, or other character or mark or a combination of letters or the like used to designate something: the algebraic symbol x; the chemical symbol Au.
- : a word, phrase, image, or the like having a complex of associated meanings and perceived as having inherent value separable from that which is symbolized, as being part of that which is symbolized, and as performing its normal function of standing for or representing that which is symbolized: usually conceived as deriving its meaning chiefly from the structure in which it appears, and generally distinguished from a sign.
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sym·boled, sym·bol·ing or sym·bolled, sym·bol·ling.
- : to use symbols; symbolize.
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Examples
He was one of living symbols of “White Ribbon Revolution” of 2012, always in black, slim, shaved, almost a monk.
In fact, as is well known, Christian holidays are filled with these ancient religious symbols.
Puck artists, like their predecessors, combined picture-making skills with a caricatural precision and a knack for lethal symbols.
Dead white people were symbols; dead blacks were statistics, unless white people killed them.
They are 'other,' newly visible, and symbols of the social and, by extension, economic changes in society and in New York.
Judge for yourself the difficulty surrounding the remainder of the symbols and fundamental truths of christianity.
The types and symbols of a former period were blessed to the souls of men, as well as the fuller revelations of succeeding times.
The palm and crown are symbols that frequently occur, often in a very rude form.
One of the most beautiful symbols of the Catacombs is the dove, the perpetual synonym of peace.
One of the most remarkable and important, in its theological significance, of the symbols of the Catacombs is that of the fish.