font
IPA: fˈɑnt
noun
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
- (typography) 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.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- 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.
- (computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
- (computing, typography) 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.
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- A surname
- (informal) Short for Fontainebleau., a town. [A town in the metropolitan area of Paris, in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France, home to a royal French palace.]
verb
- (television, colloquial, transitive) To overlay (text) on the picture.
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Examples of "font" in Sentences
- Entwine the cold baptismal font.
- The skinny font is the standard one.
- Blackboard bold is the font of our craft.
- Can somebody change the font of the labels
- The old altar was replaced by the baptismal font.
- Directly behind the lectern is the baptismal font.
- The baptismal font lies to the north of the church.
- The font was returned to the interior of the church.
- The marble baptismal font was gifted by the congregation.
- It is the home of the historic hermitage of Fonte Avellana.
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