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A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptismA receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
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Warum verwenden Sie diese Schriftart?
Почему ты пользуешься этим шрифтом?
Почему вы пользуетесь этим шрифтом?
Чому ти користуєшся цим шрифтом?
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Meaning
9 sensesA receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
Weihwasserbecken, Taufbecken
купе́льkupélʹ
A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
Ölreservoir
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.
a specific size and style of type within a type family
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.
Schriftart, Schrift
шрифтšrift, фонтfont
шрифтšryft, черенки́čerenký
(informal)A typeface.
(metonymically)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.
They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.
Font, Zeichensatz, Schriftart
шрифтšrift, фонтfont
(informal)The design of any text.
I like the font of this logo.
(figuratively)A source, wellspring, fount.
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
Quelle
Examples
44 sentencesWhy do you use this font?
Чому ти користуєшся цим шрифтом?
ruПочему ты пользуешься этим шрифтом?
deWarum verwendest du diese Schriftart?
I like this font.
Мені подобається цей шрифт.
I can't read this size font.
How do you make the font bigger?
This size font is hard to read.
Translations
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Origin
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”). From MiddFrom 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:
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
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Forms
plural: fontsSynonyms
9 synonyms- a specific size and style of type within a type family:founttypefacefacecase
- bowl for baptismal water:baptismal fontbaptistrybaptistery