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单词 italic
释义

italic1

adjectiveɪˈtalɪkīˈtal-
  • 1Of the sloping kind of typeface used especially for emphasis or distinction and in foreign words.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Identical residues are represented in uppercase bold and italic characters; nonconserved residues are indicated in lowercase.
    • Much of it is in an italic typeface, like interior thoughts or private conversation within a larger novel.
    • It also calls for authors to use their word processing functions and ‘show it like it is,’ at least for words that need to be displayed in bold or italic type.
    • Each family includes a regular, italic, bold and bold italic style.
    • She speaks deliberately and methodically, but enthusiastically, with an italic emphasis on seemingly random words.
    1. 1.1 (of handwriting) modelled on 16th-century Italian handwriting, typically cursive and sloping and with elliptical or pointed letters.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I held it up to the light and read the slightly smudged neat italic handwriting.
      • On the back of the van there is a ‘catchy quip’ in italic writing
      • In addition to annotations already cited, the word caso appears in an italic hand as a gloss for the Spanish edition's ceso in the right-hand margin on sig.
      • I saw a diary with curly italic writing on it.
      • The annotations also mix Spanish, Italian and French with English, as well as secretary with italic handwriting.
nounɪˈtalɪkiˈtalik
mass noun
  • An italic typeface or letter.

    the key words are in italics
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The species name is called the epithet of the species, and they are always printed in italics, by convention.
    • I then realised that the letter A at the beginning of a word signifies that the word should have been printed in bold or italic.
    • The restored words, shown here in italic, reverse the meaning.
    • Could you please be careful with the quotation marks, bold face and italics?
    • This means that the user will be able to combine italics, bold and underlined font if needed.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the general sense 'Italian'): via Latin from Greek Italikos, from Italia 'Italy'. Senses relating to writing date from the early 17th century.

Rhymes

Alec, cephalic, encephalic, Gallic, intervallic, medallic, mesocephalic, metallic, phallic, Salic, tantalic, Uralic, Vandalic

Italic2

adjective ɪˈtalɪkɪˈtalɪkīˈtal-
  • Relating to or denoting the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Indeed, many of the works he discusses ‘form a coherent part of the Italic narrative in North America’.
    • The Celtic languages are most closely related to the Italic group of languages and somewhat more remotely to the Germanic.
    • The series of Italic philosophers consists of the following: Telanges, Xenophanes, Parmenides, and others down to Epicurus.
    • It was especially this Byzantine law that De Luca decried as ‘contrary to the laws and customs of the Romans and the Italic people’.
    • The Etruscan style epitomized another aspect of the antique tradition that was Italic and not Greek, a humble realism opposed to the perfection of the Hellenic canon.
    • The Romans, with seven cases, began their expansionist career by defeating speakers of other Italic languages, such as Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian, all of which had the same or fewer cases.
noun ɪˈtalɪkɪˈtalɪkiˈtalik
mass noun
  • The Italic group of languages.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Alliterative meter also seems to predominate in the very earliest texts from the third western branch of Indo-European, Italic.

Origin

Late 19th century: via Latin from Greek Italikos, from Italia 'Italy'.

 
 

italic1

adjectiveīˈtal-
  • 1Of the sloping kind of typeface used especially for emphasis or distinction and in foreign words.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Identical residues are represented in uppercase bold and italic characters; nonconserved residues are indicated in lowercase.
    • It also calls for authors to use their word processing functions and ‘show it like it is,’ at least for words that need to be displayed in bold or italic type.
    • She speaks deliberately and methodically, but enthusiastically, with an italic emphasis on seemingly random words.
    • Much of it is in an italic typeface, like interior thoughts or private conversation within a larger novel.
    • Each family includes a regular, italic, bold and bold italic style.
    1. 1.1 (of handwriting) modeled on 16th-century Italian handwriting, typically cursive and sloping and with elliptical or pointed letters.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • On the back of the van there is a ‘catchy quip’ in italic writing
      • I saw a diary with curly italic writing on it.
      • In addition to annotations already cited, the word caso appears in an italic hand as a gloss for the Spanish edition's ceso in the right-hand margin on sig.
      • The annotations also mix Spanish, Italian and French with English, as well as secretary with italic handwriting.
      • I held it up to the light and read the slightly smudged neat italic handwriting.
nouniˈtalik
  • An italic typeface or letter.

    the key words are in italics
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Could you please be careful with the quotation marks, bold face and italics?
    • I then realised that the letter A at the beginning of a word signifies that the word should have been printed in bold or italic.
    • This means that the user will be able to combine italics, bold and underlined font if needed.
    • The restored words, shown here in italic, reverse the meaning.
    • The species name is called the epithet of the species, and they are always printed in italics, by convention.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the general sense ‘Italian’): via Latin from Greek Italikos, from Italia ‘Italy’. Senses relating to writing date from the early 17th century.

Italic2

adjectiveīˈtalikīˈtal-
  • Relating to or denoting the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was especially this Byzantine law that De Luca decried as ‘contrary to the laws and customs of the Romans and the Italic people’.
    • The Celtic languages are most closely related to the Italic group of languages and somewhat more remotely to the Germanic.
    • The series of Italic philosophers consists of the following: Telanges, Xenophanes, Parmenides, and others down to Epicurus.
    • Indeed, many of the works he discusses ‘form a coherent part of the Italic narrative in North America’.
    • The Etruscan style epitomized another aspect of the antique tradition that was Italic and not Greek, a humble realism opposed to the perfection of the Hellenic canon.
    • The Romans, with seven cases, began their expansionist career by defeating speakers of other Italic languages, such as Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian, all of which had the same or fewer cases.
nouniˈtalikiˈtalik
  • The Italic group of languages.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Alliterative meter also seems to predominate in the very earliest texts from the third western branch of Indo-European, Italic.

Origin

Late 19th century: via Latin from Greek Italikos, from Italia ‘Italy’.

 
 
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