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Most commonly today, the style and shape of the letters used when you type or print something — Times New Roman, Arial, and so on ('change the font to something easier to read'). There's also an older, church meaning: a large stone basin holding water for baptism. And in more poetic writing, 'a font of knowledge/wisdom' means a great source of something.
字型（打字排版的字體樣式，最常見用法）；洗禮盆（教堂用語）；泉源（比喻某種豐富的來源，較文學性）
組成surprisingly, this one word has two separate origin stories: the church/'source' meaning comes from an old word for 'a spring of water'; the typing/printing meaning comes from a different old word about melting and casting metal (the metal letter blocks were once made by pouring melted metal into molds)
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Fontname詞源 1
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informal# Clipping of Fontainebleau: a town near Paris, in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.
Fontname詞源 2
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A surname
fontnoun詞源 1/fɒnt/
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ChristianityA 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.
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A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
fontnoun詞源 2/fɒnt/
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mediapublishingtypographyA 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.
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mediapublishingtypographyA 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.
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mediapublishingtypographyA 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.
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informalmediapublishingtypographyA typeface.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA 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.
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informalThe design of any text.
- I like the font of this logo.
fontverb詞源 2/fɒnt/
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informalbroadcastingmediatelevisionTo 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.
fontnoun詞源 3/fɒnt/
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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
- As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。