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Audio Help [font] Pronunciation Key | 1. | a receptacle, usually of stone, as in a baptistery or church, containing the water used in baptism. |
| 2. | a receptacle for holy water; stoup. |
| 3. | a productive source: The book is a font of useful tips for travelers. |
| 4. | the reservoir for oil in a lamp. |
| 5. | Archaic. a fountain. |
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Audio Help [font] Pronunciation Key | a complete assortment of type of one style and size. |
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n.
[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin fōns, font-, from Latin, fountain.] font'al (fŏn'tl) adj. |
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n. Printing A complete set of type of one size and face. [French fonte, casting, from Old French (from Vulgar Latin *fundita, from Late Latin, feminine of *funditus, past participle of Latin fundere, to pour forth; see fondant) or from Old French fondre, to melt (from Latin fundere).] |
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| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
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noun | |
| 1. | a specific size and style of type within a type family |
| 2. | bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
font text
A set of glyphs (images) representing the characters from some particular character set in a particular size and typeface. The image of each character may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an outline font).
There are several different computer representations for fonts, the most widely known are Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript font definitions and Apple's TrueType. Window systems can display different fonts on the screen and print them.
[Other types of font?]
(2001-04-27)
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Font\, n. [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.] (Print.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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