单词 | logogram |
释义 | logogramn. 1. = logogriph n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles riddleOE logogriph1598 rebus1605 name-device1631 telesticha1637 lipogram1711 charade1776 conundrum1790 logogram1820 anagrams?1860 acrostic1861 metagram1867 word square1867 verbarian1872 jumble-letters1899 word ladder1928 Double-Crostic1934 word search1957 hangman1961 1820 R. Heber Let. 1 Apr. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) II. 19 If you are not much in the habit of composing logograms, you can hardly conceive how many words a single well-chosen noun may be coaxed into. For instance, how many are there in steam-boat? 1862 H. B. Wheatley (title) Of Anagrams,..Lipograms, Chronograms, Logograms, Palindromes. 2. a. A sign or character representing a word; in Phonography, a word-letter; a single stroke which, for brevity's sake, represents a word. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > shorthand symbol discrete1620 logogram1840 grammalogue1845 phraseogram1847 outline1850 phonogram1864 logograph1888 tachygraph1965 1840 I. Pitman Man. Phonogr. §159 (1845) 46 The hooked vr is used as a logogram for very. 1870 I. Pitman Phonet. Man. 126 The following ingenious exercise is composed entirely of Logograms. b. Philology. A symbol or character used, alone or in combination, as the graphic representation of a whole word as a single letter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > character representing a word per se1596 monogram1801 word-sign1842 word-symbol1852 word-type1866 letterword1927 logogram1933 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 287 The Egyptians..represented words not always by one symbol, but also by various arrangements of logograms. 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 360 Akkadian as written contains many Sumerian logograms. 1963 M. W. Bloomfield & L. Newmark Ling. Introd. Hist. Eng. ii. 35 Mesopotamian and Egyptian peoples developed a rebus technique by which signs for whole words (logograms) could be put together to form longer words. c. gen. A symbol, as found in road-signs, advertising, &c., designed to represent in simple graphic form an object, concept, or attitude. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > logogram logo1937 logotype1957 logogram1966 1966 Sunday Times 27 Feb. 11/2 Labour's original badge..has progressively turned into what the trade calls a logogram. Derivatives logograˈmmatic adj. pertaining to logograms (sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [adjective] > relating to other word puzzles acrostic1585 logogriphic1814 logogrammatic1820 1820 R. Heber Let. 1 Apr. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) II. 19 The whimsical contrast which this logogrammatic Berserksgangr presented to the parallel exploit of Coleridge, who wrote his Kubla-Khan under the effects of opium. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1820 |
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