Font

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Font \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.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Font \Font\, n. [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring,
     fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl.
     See {Fount}.]
     1. A fountain; a spring; a source.
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              Bathing forever in the font of bliss. --Young.
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     2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for
        baptizing.
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              That name was given me at the font.   --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  font
       n 1: a specific size and style of type within a type family [syn:
             {fount}, {typeface}, {face}]
       2: bowl for baptismal water [syn: {baptismal font}, {baptistry},
           {baptistery}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  110 Moby Thesaurus words for "font":
     affusion, ascender, aspergation, aspersion, back, baptism,
     baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement,
     bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, bonanza,
     cap, capital, case, chalice, chrismal, chrismatory, christening,
     ciborium, cornucopia, counter, cruet, descender, em, en, face,
     fat-faced type, feet, flush, fount, fountain, fountainhead, geyser,
     gold mine, groove, gush, headspring, headstream, headwater,
     holy-water font, immersion, infusion, italic, jet, letter,
     ligature, lode, logotype, lower case, mainspring, majuscule, mine,
     minuscule, monstrance, nick, ostensorium, pi, pica, point, print,
     pyx, quarry, reliquary, resource, riverhead, roman, rush,
     sans serif, script, shank, shoulder, small cap, small capital,
     source, source of supply, spew, spit, spout, spouter, spray,
     spring, springhead, sprinkling, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squirt,
     stamp, staple, stem, total immersion, type, type body, type class,
     type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry,
     upper case, vein, well, wellhead, wellspring
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  font
       
           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)