Sentences with phrase «emoji meanings»

Akin to Oxford Dictionaries» bizarre eulogy to emoji meanings, Merriam - Webster hopped on the bandwagon and recently added it to their esteemed lexicon1.

Perhaps emoji meanings are destined to stay rooted in the realm of triviality.

Emoji meanings are complex and wracked with misinterpretation.

In fact, there's a massive potential for some pretty awkward hiccups inherent in emoji meanings.

But we're certainly using emoji meanings to convey the way we feel about things, and people.

Not only did the study find that understandings of emoji meanings vary depending on what platform you're using, it also revealed that people regularly interpret the same emoji quite differently.

More than just your standard definition, the emoji pages not only explain what an emoji means, but also dig a little deeper to explain where the emoji comes from and who uses it, as well as examples of the emoji in use.

One flame emoji means that you should be ashamed of your program and, as a result, should forfeit every game this season to atone for bad fashion choices.

Five flame emojis means that you're the Cory Matthews of the college football world.

In one survey, for example, people thought Google's version of the Unicode - defined «grinning face with smiling eyes» emoji meant «blissfully happy,» but they construed Apple's version to mean «ready to fight.»

Not exact matches

In a linguistic first, the most popular word of 2014 isn't a word at all, it turns out, but rather the heart emoji — illustrating the ways in which mobile icons have increasingly infiltrated our means of communication.

If you've ever been confused about the meaning of an emoji someone sends you, now you can look its up definition in the dictionary.

«You can't focus on trends blindly, it's important to understand your demographic and then target them through means specifically tailored to them — whether it is emojis or anything else.»

Some commenters pointed out that the introduction of the crucifix emoji would mean Facebook would be compelled to introduce symbols for other faiths.

The search function uses the literal meaning of the emoji, rather than what it represents: «The BibleGateway search engine focuses on these representational emoji — it translates ❤ as heart, for example, not love, even though people generally use ❤ to express love for someone or something.»

While none of this is definite, that doesn't mean we can't all make eye emojis at Patterson's recent Twitter follows.

What I love about red is that it feels like a neutral (meaning it goes with a lot), but still packs a punch (fist emoji here).

But there's a serious point here: the way the meaning of certain emojis grows and shifts through use is similar to the way natural languages evolve.

-- and any slang — many emojis have acquired insider meanings.

For Vyvyan Evans, a cognitive linguist, studying emoji entails exploring everything from the nature of communication to the evolutionary origins of language to how meaning arises in the human mind.

As he writes in his compelling new book The Emoji Code, far from being a fad, emojis reflect «fundamental elements of communication; and in turn, this all shines a light on what it means to be human».

But there's a serious point: the way the meaning of certain emojis grows and shifts is similar to the way natural languages evolve.

dis outfit doe * (* wishes she was on her phone so she could do the emojis with the two hands, showcasing something beautiful, but is on her computer so will have to hope her choice of words will carry over the inflection she means with this comment)

On devices and platforms that support Unicode 8.0, that means emoji with different skin tones will show up as expected.

Nothing screams salsa like a fiery red dress (I mean hello, the dancing lady emoji is literally wearing one!)

What I love about red is that it feels like a neutral (meaning it goes with a lot), but still packs a punch (fist emoji here).

My emoji purse and fringe heels combo drew some attention on LIKEtoKNOW.it and this feather skirt and fox clutch got a lot of compliments, but none of my outfits would stop traffic by any means.

And I know red isn't usually my go - to color but I couldn't resist... I mean, it has my feeling like a real life red salsa girl emoji!

«Using emojis like winky faces or heart eyes can really disambiguate the difference between saying something in seriousness and saying something in jest,» he says, «if you use the same emoji in two different ways and it could have completely different meanings depending on the context.

«In the case of emoji, they have a modality, they're graphic and visual,» he says, «they also convey some sort of meaning, the vocabulary is provided for you by the various companies that create them.»

They even added a snake emoji, so you know they mean business.

And the language of online dating... just send the pink telephone emoji and they'll know what you mean.

Singles are dating and flirting in a digital world, which means their love lives include texting, sending emoticons and emojis, friending and liking comments on Facebook, flirting on SnapChat, and even following each other on Twitter.

All Emoji faces have different meanings.

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In a comical scene after the prom pre-party Leslie Mann notices texts messages on her daughter's computer, together the parents decipher the emoji's that have sexual meaning such as the purple eggplant, amongst others.

Some of the emojis are a little tongue - in - cheek and I do not mean to be insensitive to past tragedies.

Sony is doing horrible, maybe that's thier thing now, be good and one deparment (videogames), suck in everything else (movies) i do nt want to be mean but, they threw up the Popeye and Medusas MOVIES to make the EMOJI MOVIE, the freaking EMOJI MOVIE... because that's the movie they can make product placement, fricking Sony, because him i have NO FAITH in the Sonic movie... Sonic Mania is the way and i really want sonic mania in 3DS / Switch

I have been especially influenced by emojis and their layered meanings.

For example, do you know the meanings of various emojis and emoticons?

That means taking steps that include showing emojis in relevant opinions, making emojis and emoticons searchable in legal research engines such as Nexis and Westlaw, and letting juries review them as part of trial evidence.

The need to ascribe definitive meaning has now reached the realm of emojis.

But the Instagram data has the potential to dramatically shift the calculus away from the parties» dueling subjective meanings to a societally objective one: The eggplant emoji is so frequently associated with photos of male genitalia that Instagram blocks users from hashtagging it.

«This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all possible depictions of disabilities, but to provide an initial starting point for greater representation for diversity within the emoji universe.»

There's also been a disarmament, with the pistol changing into a water gun, and — most importantly — the crackers emoji changing to the cookies it was always meant to be.

That means the company is within its legal right to control the usage of their own emoji designs, especially in their own App Store.

Sorry, but unfortunately that means you can't apply a system - wide font change to bring back the blob emojis, though as mentioned in the beginning, it is possible for a Substratum theme to alter the fonts of individual applications.

The revamp of the emoji from blobs to conforming circles modifies the meaning behind some emoji.

The sync will move over all of the messages including their contents, meaning pictures, links and more, and you'll be able to type messages as well as enter emoji or speak to the app to have it type up the message for you, although that last bit is something you can already do with other messaging apps.

This means that its Messenger Platform opens doors for content partners that mainly offer content in terms of GIFs, emojis, photos, videos and audio clips.