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1: the worship of sacred images

1: the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms)

1: the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin

{iconostas}

{icosahedron}

1: of or relating to an icosahedron

1: any polyhedron having twenty plane faces [also: {icosahedra} (pl)]

1: a gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary; stimulates ovulation in female mammals and stimulates androgen release in male mammals [syn: {luteinizing hormone}, {LH}, {interst...

1: of or relating to a seizure or convulsion [syn: {ictic}]

1: channel catfishes [syn: {genus Ictalurus}]

1: freshwater food fish common throughout central United States [syn: {channel catfish}, {channel cat}]

1: New World chats [syn: {genus Icteria}]

1: American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds [syn: {yellow-breasted chat}]

1: affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc [syn: {jaundiced}, {yellow}]

1: American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks [syn: {family Icteridae}]

1: producing jaundice

1: yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia [syn: {jaundice}] 2:...

1: a kind of New World oriole [syn: {northern oriole}]

1: western subspecies of northern oriole [syn: {Bullock's oriole}]

1: eastern subspecies of northern oriole [syn: {Baltimore oriole}, {Baltimore bird}, {hangbird}, {firebird}]

1: yellowish appearance in newborn infants; usually subsides spontaneously [syn: {jaundice of the newborn}, {physiological jaundice of the newborn}]

1: the male is chestnut-and-black [syn: {orchard oriole}]

1: of or relating to a seizure or convulsion [syn: {ictal}]

1: buffalo fishes [syn: {genus Ictiobus}]

1: fish of the lower Mississippi [syn: {black buffalo}]

1: intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals

1: extinct reptiles of the later Triassic period [syn: {order Ictodosauria}]

1: a genus of Mustelidae [syn: {genus Ictonyx}]

1: muishond of northern Africa [syn: {zoril}]

1: ferret-sized muishond often tamed [syn: {striped muishond}]

1: a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; "he suffered an epileptic seizure" [syn: {seizure}, {raptus}]

1: a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care [syn: {intensive care unit}]

1: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry ...

1: a state in the Rocky Mountains [syn: {Idaho}, {Gem State}] 2: a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show your ID in order to get in" [syn: {I.D.}] 3: (psychoanalysis) primitive i...

1: the 10th day of Dhu'l Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacri...

1: a Muslim day of feasting at the end of Ramadan

1: that is to say; in other words [syn: {i.e.}, {ie}, {that is}]

1: an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank [syn: {International Development Association}]

1: a state in the Rocky Mountains [syn: {Gem State}, {ID}]

1: a town in southeastern Idaho on the Snake River

1: a resident of Idaho

1: severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are requir...

1: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind" [syn: {thought}] 2: a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't lik...

1: conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal 2: constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception; "a poem or essay may be typ...

1: a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces [syn: {perfect gas}]

1: any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent [syn: {regular polyhedron}, {regular convex solid}, {regular convex polyhedron}, {Pla...

1: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad [syn: {idealization}] 2: something that exists only as an idea [syn: {...

1: consider or render as ideal; "She idealized her husband after his death" [syn: {idealize}] 2: form ideals; "Man has always idealized" [syn: {idealize}]

1: exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence [syn: {idealized}]

1: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality 2: impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are 3: elevated ideals or cond...

1: someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations [syn: {dreamer}]

1: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas [syn: {ideal}] 2: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-...

1: the quality of being ideal

1: a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading" [syn: {idealisation}, {glorification}] 2: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambi...

1: consider or render as ideal; "She idealized her husband after his death" [syn: {idealise}] 2: form ideals; "Man has always idealized" [syn: {idealise}]

1: exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence [syn: {idealised}]

1: in an ideal manner; "ideally, this will remove all problems"

{ideatum}

1: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" [syn: {imagine}, {conceive of}, {envisage}]

1: the process of forming and relating ideas