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Ermine vs. Symbol — What's the Difference?

Ermine vs. Symbol — What's the Difference?

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Ermine

A weasel (Mustela erminea) native to northern regions, having a black-tipped tail and dark brown fur that in winter changes to white. Also called stoat.

Symbol

A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise very different concepts and experiences.

Ermine

The commercially valuable white fur of this animal.

Symbol

A mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation
The chemical symbol for helium is He
The symbol r in Figure 5 represents a gene which is ineffective

Ermine

A weasel found in northern latitudes (Mustela erminea in Eurasia, Alaska, and the Arctic, Mustela haidarum in Haida Gwaii, Mustela richardsonii in the rest of North America); its dark brown fur turns white in winter, apart from the black tip of the tail.
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Symbol

A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract
The limousine was another symbol of his wealth and authority

Ermine

The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes.

Symbol

Symbolize.

Ermine

The office of a judge.

Symbol

Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible
The lamb is a symbol of innocence.

Ermine

(tincture) A white field with black spots.

Symbol

An instance that typifies a broader pattern or situation
His striking out to end the rally was a symbol of everything that had gone wrong with the team over the past month.

Ermine

Any of various moths, especially in the family Yponomeutidae

Symbol

A printed or written sign used to represent an operation, element, quantity, quality, or relation, as in mathematics or music.

Ermine

(tincture) In blazon, of the colour ermine (white with black spots).

Symbol

(Psychology) An object or image that an individual unconsciously uses to represent repressed thoughts, feelings, or impulses
A phallic symbol.

Ermine

To clothe with ermine.

Symbol

A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
$ is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.
Chinese people use word symbols for writing.

Ermine

A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.

Symbol

A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object.
The lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.

Ermine

The fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting garments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals throughout the white.

Symbol

(linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.

Ermine

By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain.

Symbol

A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
The Apostles, Nicene Creed and the confessional books of Protestantism, such as the Augsburg Confession of Lutheranism are considered symbols.

Ermine

One of the furs. See Fur (Her.)

Symbol

(crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.

Ermine

To clothe with, or as with, ermine.
The snows that have ermined it in the winter.

Symbol

(obsolete) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.

Ermine

The expensive white fur of the ermine

Symbol

(obsolete) Share; allotment.

Ermine

Mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat

Symbol

(programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.

Symbol

(telecommunications) A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.

Symbol

To symbolize.

Symbol

A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
A symbol is a sign included in the idea which it represents, e. g., an actual part chosen to represent the whole, or a lower form or species used as the representative of a higher in the same kind.

Symbol

Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.

Symbol

An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.

Symbol

That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
They do their work in the days of peace . . . and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague.

Symbol

Share; allotment.
The persons who are to be judged . . . shall all appear to receive their symbol.

Symbol

An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stannum), Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names and symbols under Element.

Symbol

To symbolize.

Symbol

An arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance

Symbol

Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible;
The eagle is a symbol of the United States

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