hieroglyph
IPA: haɪroʊgɫˈɪf
Root Word: Hieroglyph
noun
- A hieroglyph (Greek for "sacred carvings") was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system.
- A hieroglyph is a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system.
- a proposed American action-adventure drama series created by Travis Beacham, who served as executive producer on the show along with Katherine Pope, Peter Chernin and Miguel Sapochnik.
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Examples of "hieroglyph" in Sentences
- The hieroglyph is a symbol, denoting something without letters or syllables; as, pictures of a bee stand for king.
- So, we are left with an inscription “near” the pyramid, a fake hieroglyph and a two and a half thousand year old text based upon hearsay.
- And is there a name for that final hieroglyph you sent me (Dear Mr. Phillips, it is a grammatical determinative called the issuing penis)?
- I gave this primitive kind of hieroglyph to my interrogator, who, after inspecting it gravely, handed it to his next neighbour, and it thus passed round the group.
- Anatomizing a temple, though, like interpreting a hieroglyph, risks missing the unanalyzable spirit of the thing, its beautiful and hazardous play in a time we can never know.
- Thus, at Copan, wherever the same kind of hieroglyph is to be represented, it will be found that the human face or other object employed is almost identically the same in expression and character, wherever it is found.
- Matthew Barney is making his first appearance in a New York gallery in five years with 12 drawings and four sculptures—one resembling an Egyptian hieroglyph the mold was made from the melted undercarriage of a 1967 Chrysler Imperial.
- This is proved by the shape of the object held in the hand in the sign and the hieroglyph which is the determinative in writing for all ideas of violence or brute force, comes down to us from a time when the principal weapon was the club, or a bone serving as a club.
- In the same way this snake with the god's head is also found in the Codex Cortesianus, page 10, middle, a passage which is rendered notable also by the fact that in the writing above the picture there is expressly found as a second sign the name hieroglyph of the god.
- Ere long, through his influence, this form of writing will supersede wholly the hieroglyph, which is cumbersome and difficult to be understood, save by a native-born Egyptian; yet I have commenced the study of it, and can read already the cartouch of Mitres, on his obelisk over against the portico of my residence.
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