Word Meanings - SYMBOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation. Note: In crystallography, the symbol of a plane is the numerical expression which defines its position relatively to the assumed axes. (more info)

Additional info about word: SYMBOL

Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation. Note: In crystallography, the symbol of a plane is the numerical expression which defines its position relatively to the assumed axes. (more info) 1. A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience. A symbol is a sign included in the idea which it represents, e.g., an actual part chosen to represent the whole, or a lower form or species used as the representative of a higher in the same kind. Coleridge.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SYMBOL)

• Beck
• Nod
• sign
• signal
• symbol
• token
• indication
• authority
• orders
• instruction
• subserviency
• influence
• call
• command
• control
• mandate
• Character
• Symbol
• letter
• nature
• type
• disposition
• genius
• temperament
• cast
• estimation
• repute
• office
• reputation
• part
• capacity
• class
• order
• sort
• stamp
• kind
• quality
• species
• tone
• mark
• figure
• record
• Device
• Artifice
• expedient
• design
• plan
• stratagem
• project
• emblem
• show
• invention
• contrivance
• cognizance
• Emblem
• representation
• badge
• Figure
• Aspect
• shape
• image
• condition
• appearance
• form
• metaphor
• likeness
• delineation
• illustration

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SYMBOL)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate
• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to SYMBOL)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• METAPHORIST
  One who makes metaphors.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• BADGELESS
  Having no badge. Bp. Hall.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.