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emoticon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | facial expression, facial gesture |
| Has types | smiley |
:-( and :-) are emoticons.
Examples of emoticon
emoticon
Whatever communicative ability the first emoticon possessed is suddenly effaced.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
But as digital communication has taken over, the emoticon has come into its own.
From the guardian.co.uk
Perhaps the right move is to let people send a thumbs up, a heart or an emoticon.
From the techcrunch.com
I've literally wanted to put an emoticon after every sentence in this comment.
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
The rehabilitation of the emoticon is the feelgood story of the decade so far.
From the guardian.co.uk
Many applications use text codes, which become replaced with a graphical emoticon.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Big, warm voice, beats, ascending, clear melody, strings as emoticon support.
From the guardian.co.uk
Just as an exclamation mark will denote excitement, a smiley emoticon denotes humor.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
I also image a frowny-face emoticon belongs at the end of the last sentence.
From the scienceblogs.com
- A representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email; ":-( and :-) are emoticons"
- An emoticon is a textual expression representing the face of a writer's mood or facial expression. Emoticons are often used to alert a responder to the tenor or temper of a statement, and can change and improve interpretation of plain text. ...
- (Emoticons (Ben & Jason album)) Ben & Jason were a singer-songwriter duo from London consisting of Ben Parker and Jason Hazeley. Formed in 1998 and pre-empting the so-called New Acoustic Movement by about a year, they released three albums on Go! ...
- A graphical representation, either in the form of an image or made up of ASCII characters, of a particular emotion of the writer
- (Emoticons) These are the sideways smiles and frowns used in email to indicate emotions, e.g. :-) would indicate a smile and :-( would indicate a frown!
- Emoticons are symbols used in place of verbal or visual communication cues to help convey the tone or emotion of the e-mail message. They are made by a combination of keyboard keys. Some common emoticons are:
- (Emoticons) Combinations of keyboard characters that express emotion. For example, happy :-); sad :-(.
- (Emoticons (emotions + icons)) are yet another type of Internet slang. These simple keyboard pictographs can pepper text to indicate intonation so that a joke, for example, will be understood as such. ...
- (Emoticons) A series of keyed characters used especially in e-mail to indicate an emotion, such as pleasure [:-)] or sadness [:-(].
