| 释义 |
font
I. \ˈfänt\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English fant, font, funt, from Old English fant, font, from Late Latin font-, fons, from Latin, fountain, spring, source — more at fount
1. : a basin or vessel often mounted on a pedestal in which water is contained for baptizing
< that name was given me at the font — Shakespeare >
2. : a point from which something originates : fountain, spring, source
< font of botanical and geological information — Robert Bobrow >
3. : a receptacle for holy water
4. : the oil reservoir of a lamp
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle French fonte, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin fundita, feminine of (assumed) Vulgar Latin funditus, past participle of Latin fundere to found, pour — more at found
1.
a. : the act or process of casting or founding
b. : a chamber for holding molten glass that is forced into a mold by pressure from a plunger
2.
a. : an assortment of type, matrices, or characters of one size and style including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, points, accents, and figures
b. : a set of any one sort of typographical material
< a font of brass rules >
< a font of wood furniture >
III. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to arrange or make up (as type) into fonts : equip (as a type case or cabinet) with a font or fonts — often used with up |