A painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches. A person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something. A symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window, especially one of several for selection. A sign whose form directly reflects the thing it signifies, for example, the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way.