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# Clipping of Fontainebleau: a town near Paris, in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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name
A surname
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noun
A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Christianity
Synonyms: stoup
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noun
A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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noun
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.
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Topics: media, publishing, typography
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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noun
A typeface.
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Usage: informal
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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noun
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.
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Usage: metonymically
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, media, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, publishing, sciences, typography
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noun
The design of any text.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Synonyms: lettering
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noun
A source, wellspring, fount.
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Usage: figuratively
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verb
To overlay (text) on the picture.
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Usage: informal, transitive
Topics: broadcasting, media, television
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noun
bowl for baptismal water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, baptistery
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Broader terms: basin
noun
a specific size and style of type within a type family
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fount, typeface, face, case
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Broader terms: type
Narrower terms: unicameral script, bicameral script, typewriter font, constant-width font, fixed-width font, monospaced font, proportional font, font cartridge, cartridge font, Gothic, black letter, boldface, bold face, bold, italic, screen font, raster font, sans serif, Helvetica
History
Clipping of Fontainebleau.
* As a southern French and Catalan surname, from font (“spring, well”). * As an English surname, variant of Fant.
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).
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).
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
Across languages
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