Icon vs. Meme
Difference Between Icon and Meme
Iconnoun
An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
Memenoun
Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
Iconnoun
A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
Memenoun
Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.
Iconnoun
A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.Memenoun
A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.
it’s a meme degreejogging is a memeIconnoun
(computing) A small picture that represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
Memeverb
To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.
to meme into existenceIconnoun
(linguistics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also symbol and index.
Memeverb
(internet slang) To joke around.
I thought you guys were just memeingIconnoun
(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
Memenoun
a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one generation to another by nongenetic means (as by imitation);
memes are the cultrual counterpart of genesIconnoun
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;
they showed us the pictures of their weddinga movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates themIconnoun
a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
