painting vs icon

icon vs painting

painting and icon both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
painting	Yes	No	No	No
icon	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, icon is a hyponym of painting; that is, icon is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than painting:

painting: graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
icon: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church

Other hyponyms of painting include abstraction, cityscape, daub, distemper, finger-painting, ikon, landscape, illumination, miniature, monochrome, mural, wall painting, nude, nude painting, oil painting, pentimento, sand painting, seascape, waterscape, semi-abstraction, still life, tanka, trompe l'oeil, water-color, water-colour, watercolor, watercolour.

painting (noun)	icon (noun)
creating a picture with paints	a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
the occupation of a house painter	a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
the act of applying paint to a surface	(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
graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

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