pennant vs symbol

pennant

noun
  • The church pennant indicating religious services are taking place aboard ship. 

  • The commissioning pennant flown on ceremonial occasions. 

  • A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked. 

  • Either of two species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Macrodiplax, of the tropics and subtropics. 

  • A sandstone between coal measures in parts of South Wales 

  • A commemorative flag, traditionally triangular and made of felt, typically used to show support for a particular athletic team. 

  • The broad pennant flown by commodores. 

  • The winning of a competition, represented by a flag. 

symbol

noun
  • A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith. 

  • 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. 

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

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

  • A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object. 

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

  • A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object. 

verb
  • To symbolize. 

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