font: English has two words font. The older, ‘basin for baptismal water’ [OE], comes from font-, the stem of Latin fons ‘spring, fountain’ (from which English also gets fountain). It may well have been introduced into the language via Old Irish fant or font (it was often spelled fant in Old English). Font ‘set of type’ [16] (or fount, as it is often also spelled) was borrowed from French fonte, a derivative of fondre ‘melt’ (whence also English fondant, fondu, and foundry). => fountain; fondant, foundry
font (n.1)
"water basin," especially used in baptism, late Old English, from Latin fons (genitive fontis) "fountain" (see fountain), especially in Medieval Latin fons baptismalis "baptismal font." The word is sometimes used poetically for "a fountain; a source."
font (n.2)
"complete set of characters of a particular face and size of type," 1680s (also fount), earlier "a casting" (1570s), from Middle French fonte "a casting," noun use of fem. past participle of fondre "to melt" (see found (v.2)). So called because all the letters in a given set were cast at the same time.
雙語例句
1. When you download the font it may be in a compressed format, such as a zip file.
下載的字體可能為壓縮格式，如壓縮文件包。
來自柯林斯例句
2. To do this, you select some text and change the font color to white.
為了做到這點, 你選擇一些文本并將字體的顏色改成白色.
來自About Face 3交互設(shè)計精髓
3. He took the cover off the font, and put his white gloves in it.
他揭開圣水器的蓋子, 把自己的白手套放了進去.
來自辭典例句
4. Alternating the basic stroke set can change the type of font generated.
改變基本筆劃庫,可改變生成的字體種類.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. Such a font would be ugly and just about unreadable.