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font

noun
/fɒnt/UK/fɑnt/US

Etymology

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: * from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or * from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).

  1. derived from fundō
  2. derived from *fundita✻
  3. derived from *ǵʰewd-✻ — “to pour”
  4. derived from fundere
  5. derived from fondre
  6. derived from fonte — “act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”

Definitions

  1. A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

    • She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
    • Blessed be God, that, at the font, /⁠ My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.
    • In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]

  2. A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.

  3. A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style…

    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.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A typeface.

    2. A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more…

      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.

    3. The design of any text.

      • I like the font of this logo.

    4. To overlay (text) on the picture.

      • When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.
      • […] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.

    5. 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

    6. # Clipping of Fontainebleau

      # Clipping of Fontainebleau: a town near Paris, in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.

    7. A surname

The neighborhood

Derived

fontal, fontlet, fontless, font name, bitmap font, clip font, color font, Fontcest, font family, fontography, fontology, font stack, font suitcase, multifont, outline font, pi font, printer font, roman font, screen font, soundfont, subfont, Unicode font, variable font, webfont

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at font. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at font. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at font

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA