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Meaning of "pictography" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PICTOGRAPHY

pictography  [pɪkˈtɒɡrəfɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PICTOGRAPHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pictography is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PICTOGRAPHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pictography

Pictogram

A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and also an 'icon', is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to a considerable extent pictorial in appearance. Pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. In certain modern use, pictograms participate to a formal language.

Definition of pictography in the English dictionary

The definition of pictography in the dictionary is the representation of a word or group of words by a symbol or picture.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PICTOGRAPHY


aortography
ˌeɪɔːˈtɒɡrəfɪ
astrophotography
ˌæstrəʊfəˈtɒɡrəfɪ
autography
ɔːˈtɒɡrəfɪ
cartography
kɑːˈtɒɡrəfɪ
cholecystography
ˌkɒlɪsɪsˈtɒɡrəfɪ
chromatography
ˌkrəʊməˈtɒɡrəfɪ
cinematography
ˌsɪnɪməˈtɒɡrəfɪ
cryptography
krɪpˈtɒɡrəfɪ
cystography
sɪsˈtɒɡrəfɪ
electrochromatography
ɪˌlɛktrəʊkrəʊməˈtɒɡrəfɪ
electrophotography
ɪˌlɛktrəʊfəˈtɒɡrəfɪ
enigmatography
ɪˌnɪɡməˈtɒɡrəfɪ
fractography
frækˈtɒɡrəfɪ
hectography
hɛkˈtɒɡrəfɪ
hyetography
ˌhaɪɪˈtɒɡrəfɪ
macrophotography
ˌmækrəʊfəˈtɒɡrəfɪ
microphotography
ˈmaɪkrəʊfəˈtɒɡrəfɪ
photography
fəˈtɒɡrəfɪ
radioautography
ˌreɪdɪəʊɔːˈtɒɡrəfɪ
telautography
ˌtelɔːˈtɒɡrəfɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PICTOGRAPHY

pictogram
pictograph
pictographic
Pictor
pictorial
pictorialise
pictorialism
pictorialist
pictorialize
pictorially
pictorialness
pictorical
pictorically
Pictoris
pictural
picture
picture book
picture card
picture desk
picture editor

WORDS THAT END LIKE PICTOGRAPHY

angiography
autobiography
bibliography
biography
calligraphy
choreography
computed tomography
crystallography
demography
discography
filmography
geography
historiography
oceanography
orthography
pornography
radiography
tomography
topography
typography
videography

Synonyms and antonyms of pictography in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pictography» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PICTOGRAPHY

Find out the translation of pictography to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pictography from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pictography» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

象形文字
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pictografía
570 millions of speakers

English

pictography
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pictography
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pictography
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пиктография
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pictography
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pictography
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pictographie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pictografi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pictography
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pictography
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pictography
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gambar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tượng hình văn tự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஓவியமாக வரைதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

छायाचित्रण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

resim yazısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pittografia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

piktografia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пиктография
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pictografie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pictography
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

piktografie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bildskrift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pictography
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pictography

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PICTOGRAPHY»

The term «pictography» is normally little used and occupies the 140.702 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PICTOGRAPHY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pictography» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pictography» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pictography

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICTOGRAPHY»

Discover the use of pictography in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pictography and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of ...
Offers information on how to use mental pictures to solve problems, enjoy good health, overcome crises, break self-defeating habits, and combat fear and tension
Vernon A. Howard, Vernon Linwood Howard, 1996
2
Anthropology and the Classics
pre-Phoenician scripts of Greece and the Aegean world, we find evidence of the same primitive stratum of linearized pictography. But the true hieroglyphic script, in which the phonetic element is apparently already present, in addition to the ...
R. R. Marett, 1967
3
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, ...
Epigraphy Victoria Reifler Bricker. Narrative Pictography Narrative pictography has been given various names (Dibble 1971:324). In principle, this type of graphic representation registers certain information not by recording the verbal form of ...
Victoria Reifler Bricker, 2010
4
The Language of Gestures
image and writing - image in its directly perceptible meaning and writing in its purpose of communication — it is clearly recognizable that gestural communication and pictography influence one another. This connection manifests itself where ...
Wilhelm Wundt, 1973
5
Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American ...
What matters here is that a broader definition ofwriting makes it possible to revisit ''pictography'' in North America and move our discussion from whether it constitutes writing to how various semasiographic and hieroglyphic records functioned ...
Birgit Brander Rasmussen, 2012
6
The Genera of Fishes Part III: From Guenther to Gill, ...
They have resorted to the use of pictography. Within a given village almost complete similarity has been attained by the pictographers in their use of symbols to represent Biblical passages. The old women have developed this form of writing, ...
Alaska Natives
7
World Cinema and the Visual Arts:
Her art is considered illegible precisely because it does not avoid mimicking the racist pictography from that era. But what exactly is this historical and pictorial material in Walker's work that so deeply disturbs some of its viewers? The unsettling ...
David Gallagher, 2013
8
A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture
The accounts that Chimalpahin and Tezozomoc collect document the genres of speech acts that supplemented the pictographic histories. Beyond the alphabetical texts, pictography provides leads for an inquiry into native critical thought.
Sara Castro-Klaren, 2013
9
The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of ...
Pictography, if it claims no ability to inscribe sounds, inscribes things themselves. It also writes gestures, which Rousseau believed to be a preverbal language, universal and independent of convention, in which primitive people expressed ...
Gary Tomlinson, 2007
10
Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs ...
And as for their remembering the time in which each event took place, you have already read about the computation that these people used."2 Tovar's answer must have persuaded, because Acosta ultimately included Aztec pictography ( and ...
Elizabeth Hill Boone, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PICTOGRAPHY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pictography is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Gagosian London's Massive Survey Defines Spray Art
The late sixties showed new techniques and political infusions, such as Keith Haring's pictography that covered bodies, canvases, and public ... «Artinfo UK, Jun 15»
2
29 Places to Get Free Stock Images to Boost Your Content Marketing
... Gratisopgraphy – http://www.gratisography.com – free to use; Pictography – http://picography.co – free to use – CC0 license – no attribution ... «Pulse, Mar 15»
3
Tourism Untapped, Revenue Unearned
... about 37 kms from Sundargarh town has evidence of ancient pictography and the barren Chhatri hill in Bargaon block has palaeogeographic ... «The New Indian Express, Jan 15»
4
Muhammadu Buhari: A Service Deliverer Coming Back To Power?
... prancing around the task master (Idiabon)'s war against indiscipline that emblematised a progressive landscape of Buhari's pictography. «Nigerian Observer, Nov 14»
5
Azerbaijan: Autonomous Republic Of Nakhchivan Commemorates …
... Gamigaya pictography, Momuna khatun tomb (XII century), Gulustan tomb (XIII century) are some of the most important historical monuments. «Eurasia Review, Nov 14»
6
Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan to share screen space …
Milan Luthria's film ,The Dirty Picture starring Vidya Balan, had become a sensation overnight for its bold plus daring pictography and concept. «Bollywood Life, Sep 14»
7
Today's Apps Gone Free: Strange Rain, Gro Book, Flick Kick …
Pictography ($2.99 → Free, 5.6 MB): Apply filters and captions to your favorite photos with ... Pictography is available for free for a limited time. «AppAdvice, Jun 14»
8
Posted by: David Moffly
Since the beginning of time people have loved watching other people, it started with pictography on the walls of caves and today it is video. «Baeble Music, Feb 14»
9
The many layers of faith
Although some of his allegorical canvases appear less successful, his denser paintings divested of pictography allow viewers to be provoked ... «The Hindu, Feb 14»
10
This Week Releases A Strong Lineup
... basking on the success of his previous film 'Prema Katha Chitram' and with his six pack pictography making some buzz in the bench circles, ... «IndiaGlitz, Dec 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Pictography [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pictography>. May 2024 ».
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