What does Font mean?
Definitions for Font
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Font.
Princeton's WordNet
font, fount, typeface, face, casenoun
a specific size and style of type within a type family
baptismal font, baptistry, baptistery, fontnoun
bowl for baptismal water
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Fontnoun
A stone vessel in which the water for holy baptism is contained in the church.
Etymology: fons, Latin; fonte, French.
The presenting of infants at the holy font is by their godfathers. Richard Hooker, b. ii. s. 7.
I have no name, no title;
No, not that name was given me at the font. William Shakespeare, R. II.
ChatGPT
font
A font is a specific size, weight, and style of a typeface used in various forms of textual communication such as typing or printing. It refers to the overall design of alphanumeric characters (letters, numbers, punctuation marks) and can also include special characters. The term is often used interchangeably with 'typeface', though they technically have different meanings. Fonts are utilized in various digital and printed media to present written content in a visually effective and readable manner. Each font has unique characteristics, including variations in thickness, height, spacing, and other design elements.
Webster Dictionary
Fontnoun
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
Fontnoun
a fountain; a spring; a source
Fontnoun
a basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing
Etymology: [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.]
Wikidata
Font
Font is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. The municipality of Font merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Estavayer-le-Lac.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Font
font, n. the vessels used in churches as the repository of the baptismal water, usually a basin or cup hollowed out of a solid block of marble, &c.—adj. Font′al, pertaining to a font or origin.—ns. Font′let, a little font; Font′-stone, a baptismal font of stone. [L. font-em, fons, a fountain.]
Font
font, Fount, fownt, n. a complete assortment of types of one sort, with all that is necessary for printing in that kind of letter. [Fr. fonte—fondre—L. fundĕre, to cast.]
Editors Contribution
font
A type of electronic or digital writing format.
Digital documents have various different types of font which are very accessible.
Submitted by MaryC on March 13, 2020
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FONT
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
FONT
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Font is ranked #14070 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Font surname appeared 2,138 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Font.
62.1% or 1,329 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
33.4% or 715 total occurrences were White.
2.4% or 53 total occurrences were Black.
1% or 22 total occurrences were Asian.
0.6% or 14 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.2% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Font in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Font in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Font in a Sentence
It was sleeker, fresher and redesigned, there were tweaks here and there - look, even a new font! But it still does essentially the same thing.
You could imagine reading a text … and every letter is a different font, or every letter is a different size, then the text is much harder to read. And this is basically what we do in codon pair deoptimization.
If we interact with people with the sole expectation that they soon will don a white jumpsuit and ask for directions to the nearest baptismal font, were doing it wrong, some who come and see will, perhaps, never join the church; some will at a later time. That is their choice. But that doesnt change our love for them.
It was sleeker, fresher and redesigned, there were tweaks here and there - look, even a new font ! But it still does essentially the same thing.
The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs Font la mer noire)
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- بنط, خطArabic
- извор, източник, шрифт, купелBulgarian
- nodrezhBreton
- písmoCzech
- skrifttypeDanish
- Font, Schriftart, GießzettelGerman
- γραμματοσειρά, κολυμβήθρα, γραμματοστοιχείοGreek
- fuenteSpanish
- kirjasin, fonttiFinnish
- fonts, fonteFrench
- cruth-clòScottish Gaelic
- גופןHebrew
- fontIndonesian
- leturgerðIcelandic
- フォント, 字体Japanese
- šriftasLithuanian
- momotuhi, ipu iriiriMāori
- фонт, купел, крстилница, тип, изворMacedonian
- fonMalay
- doopvont, lettertypeDutch
- czcionka, zbiornik, chrzcielnica, źródłoPolish
- fonte batismal, fonte, pia batismalPortuguese
- fontRomanian
- фонт, купель, шрифтRussian
- pismenikSerbo-Croatian
- funt, dopfunt, teckensnitt, reservoar, stilsort, typsnitt, fontSwedish
- шрифтUkrainian
- phông, phông chữVietnamese
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