font

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /fɒnt/    美 /fɑnt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
    — She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
  2. A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.; In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
  3. A source, wellspring, fount. figuratively
    — 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in The arts of which these lands were once the font
  4. A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
  5. A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.; In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
  6. A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.; In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
  7. A typeface. informal
  8. A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer. metonymically
    — They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.
  9. The design of any text. informal
    — I like the font of this logo.
动词 v.
  1. To overlay (text) on the picture. informal,transitive
    — When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.

词形变化

fonts plural fonts plural fount alternative,archaic fonts present,singular,third-person fonting participle,present fonted participle,past fonted past fount alternative,archaic fonts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
fontal fontlet fontless font name bitmap font clip font color font Fontcest font family fontography fontology font stack font suitcase multifont outline font pi font printer font roman font screen font soundfont subfont Unicode font variable font webfont
相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).
词源 2
From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either:
* from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or
* from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).
词源 3
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
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