Crossword clues for monogram
monogram
- Initial pairing of New Moon and Aries around the 3rd of August
- Type of Personal Identification Number to access synthesiser memory
- Personal letters
- LBJ or JFK
- H.S.T. or D.D.E
- Pocket embroidery, maybe
- Motif of interwoven letters
- Letters on stationery, perhaps
- Design on stationery
- Decorative lettering
- Feature of some stationery
- Printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing
- A graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials)
- Handkerchief marking
- H.S.T. or D.D.E.
- Hanky décor
- Graphic symbol using initial letters
- Combined letters from mother receiving new organ
- No good blocking second astrological symbol as personal emblem
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
monogram \mon"o*gram\, v. t. To inscribe or ornament with a monogram.
XP \XP\ [Belongs here in appearance only.] The first two letters of the Greek word XRISTOS, Christ; -- an abbreviation used with the letters separate or, oftener, in a monogram, often inclosed in a circle, as a symbol or emblem of Christ. It use as an emblem was introduced by Constantine the Great, whence it is known as the
Constantinian symbol, or
monogram. See Labarum.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"two or more letters intertwined," 1690s, from French monogramme or directly from Late Latin monogramma (5c.), from Late Greek monogrammon "a character formed of several letters in one design," especially in reference to the signature of the Byzantine emperors, noun use of neuter of monogrammos (adj.) "consisting of a single letter," literally "drawn with single lines," from Greek monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + gramma "letter, line" (see grammar). Earlier it meant "sketch or picture drawn in lines only, without shading or color," a sense also found in Latin and probably in Greek. Related: Monogrammatic.
1868, from monogram (n.). Related: Monogrammed; monogramming.\n
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch. Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete rare English) A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry. Etymology 3
n. A design composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution. vb. (context transitive English) To mark something with a monogram.
WordNet
n. a graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing
Wikipedia
A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol. Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols or logos. A series of uncombined initials is properly referred to as a cypher (e.g. a royal cypher) and is not a monogram.
Monogram has been a premier maker of scale models of aircraft, spacecraft, ships, cars, and military vehicles since the early 1950s. The company was formed by two former employees of Comet Kits, Jack Besser and Bob Reder. After thirteen years as a fully owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards' Binney and Smith unit, Hobbico announced it was acquiring Revell-Monogram in 2007 (Funding Universe webpage).
Monogram may refer to:
- Monogram, a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol
- Monogram Pictures, a Hollywood studio
- Monogram, an upper end appliance line from General Electric, mostly in stainless steel that looks like professional quality items found in commercial kitchens.
- Monogram models, a United States scale model manufacturer
- Monograms, a package tour operator, part of Globus family of brands
- A varsity letter, a terminology still used at some schools, most notably at the University of Notre Dame
- Major Francis Monogram, a character in the animated television series Phineas and Ferb
Monogram is a late 1950s " combine" by American artist Robert Rauschenberg. It consists of a stuffed goat with its midsection passing through an automobile tire. It has been described as Rauschenberg's most famous work.
Usage examples of "monogram".
Godard was simply mimicking those old Monogram Studios gangster pictures to begin with, so even the original is a copy.
I do not mean to accuse you, but you are probably aware that autos generally bear the monogram of their owner.
And there was Sir Damask and Lady Monogram, who were people moving in quite the first circles.
But Lady Monogram was not at all the person to dine with Mrs Dick Roby without other cause than this.
Then came Sir Damask and Lady Monogram, and Dick at once began about his pigeons.
Lady Monogram looked around the room carefully, and seeing Lady Eustace turned up her nose, nor did she care much for meeting Lord Mongrober.
There had been some doubt whether of right he should not have taken Lady Eustace, but it was held by Mrs Dick that her ladyship had somewhat impaired her rights by the eccentricities of her career, and also that she would amiably pardon any little wrongdoing against her of that kind,--whereas Lady Monogram was a person much to be considered.
I talk to Monogram about pigeons, to Tom there about politics, to Apperton and Lopez about the price of consols, and to you about wine.
And there were others in the back room,--Dick and Monogram standing on the rug, and the elder Mrs Roby seated in a corner,--so that there was nothing peculiar in the position of the two lovers.
Anne gazed silently at the grotesque monogram, Mark passed her another picture, then another and another.
That monogram, in turn, was identical with the one that The Shadow had found on the cigar band that he had taken from the wallet of Professor Smedley Breer!
The combination of a cross interwoven with an A and a sort of monogram of an X and an H.
In the reversed semicircle before her is another monogram, Uota or Tuota, a name which perhaps may be translated Uta, Utta, Ida, etc.
As a practical guide in determining the genuineness of a work, the monogram, from the skill and precision with which fraudulent dealers have learned to counterfeit it in almost all its varieties, has long been far worse than equivocal, and the authorship of a picture must, now-a-days, often be decided on entirely independent grounds.
A still wider field for speculation than that which grows out of the handwriting, is afforded by a device like the monogram, which, being in a great measure arbitrary, may naturally be expected to exhibit more decidedly the workings of the judgment, the fancy, or perhaps the caprice, of the artist.