font noun [C] (IN A CHURCH)
font noun [C] (LETTERS)
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Meaning of font in English
(Definition of font from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
font | American Dictionary
font | Business English
The restaurant logo was made from a font similar to the casino's, to emphasize the connection in customers' minds.
Examples of font
font
However, no attempt is made to replicate the fonts themselves.
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Companies can change the colours and fonts on the standard site and add their own graphics.
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Editions of the classics might use many different fonts of type to distinguish text, textual variations, side-notes, and footnotes.
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By convention, we use the same letter to denote a coalgebra and its carrier set but use different fonts to distinguish them.
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Volume 6 has been printed with the same fonts and on the same kind of paper, and is therefore in the same format as the other five volumes.
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When combining text of different fonts into a single line of text, then neither ht-append nor hb-append produces the right result in general, because different fonts have different shapes.
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Knowing the importance of making study materials accessible and appropriate to target individuals, we used large fonts for leaflets and posters to make them easier to read.
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I welcome the move to combat illegal fonts because that will facilitate the automatic reading of number plates.
From the
Hansard archive
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With the new fonts and with the making of names out of numbers, there is a danger of losing sight of the purpose of number plates.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Based on the results of the analysis, the static debugger annotates the program with font and color changes.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Such machines would not allow mixing fonts within a single line.
The result was significantly better-looking fonts even at low resolution; it had formerly been believed that hand-tuned bitmap fonts were required for this task.
Once the company greenlights a localization project, a period of brainstorming starts in which glossary, style, naming schemes and fonts are chosen.
The family includes 2 fonts in 2 weights, without italics.
Text stored as outline fonts in bitmap image formats is handled in the same way.
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Collocations with font
font
These are words often used in combination with font.
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bold font
This used for the self-ratings a large (216r 279 mm) visual aid with lettering in a large (20 pt) bold font and two-step instructions.
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different font
We hope that our use of a different font for categories means that our use of the symbol for subcategory as well as subset will not create any confusion.
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font size
The latter makes it a real pocket book, albeit the smaller font size makes it slightly difficult to read.
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Translations of font
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活字（の字体）, 洗礼盤, フォント…
yazı karakteri, vaftiz törenlerinde kullanılan içinde su bulunan kap, sunak…
police [feminine] de caractères, police (de caractères), fonte…
tipus de lletra, pica baptismal…
font, doopvont…
font, znaková sada, křtitelnice…
font, skrifttype, døbefont…
font, rupa huruf, tempat air baptis…
แบบอักษร, อ่างน้ำมนต์ในโบสถ์…
font chữ, bình đựng nước thánh…
czcionka, chrzcielnica…
teckensnitt, dopfont…
fon, bekas air baptis…
die Schriftart, der Taufbrunnen…
font [masculine], skrifttype [masculine], skrifttype…
서체, 폰트, 성수반…
шрифт, купіль…
tipo di carattere tipografico, fonte battesimale, acquasantiera…
