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Grammar : Noun
Spell : pik-tuh-graf, -grahf
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪk təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf

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Définition of pictograph

Origin :
  • "picture or symbol representing an idea," 1851, from Latin pictus "painted," past participle of pingere "to paint" (see paint (v.)) + -graph "something written." First used in reference to American Indian writing. Related: Pictography.
  • As in alphabet : noun letters of a writing system
Example sentences :
  • First, it is simply a representation of an object or a phenomenon, that is, a pictograph.
  • Extract from : « Evolution in Art » by Alfred C. Haddon
  • Such a figure occurs in the pictograph under consideration, where it occupies the position of the head.
  • Extract from : « Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 » by Jesse Walter Fewkes
  • Then, he drew with painstaking care a series of diagrams that repeated the information in pictograph form.
  • Extract from : « Deepfreeze » by Robert Donald Locke
  • The pictograph cut into a rock or tree, or painted upon a buffalo-skin tent, was our only record of current or past events.
  • Extract from : « Indian Scout Talks » by Charles A. Eastman
  • For example, the pictograph for mouth combined with pictograph for vapour expressed words.
  • Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
  • It is printed with a sort of movable type, and each character is a pictograph or hieroglyph.
  • Extract from : « Archology and the Bible » by George A. Barton
  • Anyone could read a document written in this pictograph form, if he had ever seen the objects to which the pictures referred.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Science of Sociology » by Robert E. Park
  • Fig. 214 is an Ojibwa pictograph found in Schoolcraft, I, pl.
  • Extract from : « Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes » by Garrick Mallery
  • The Ojibwa pictograph for sun is seen in Fig. 169, taken from Schoolcraft, loc.
  • Extract from : « Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes » by Garrick Mallery
  • Fig. 211 is an Ojibwa pictograph taken from Schoolcraft, loc.
  • Extract from : « Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes » by Garrick Mallery

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