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.
双语例句
1. When you download the font it may be in a compressed format, such as a zip file.
下载的字体可能为压缩格式，如压缩文件包。
来自柯林斯例句
2. To do this, you select some text and change the font color to white.
为了做到这点, 你选择一些文本并将字体的颜色改成白色.
来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
3. He took the cover off the font, and put his white gloves in it.
他揭开圣水器的盖子, 把自己的白手套放了进去.
来自辞典例句
4. Alternating the basic stroke set can change the type of font generated.
改变基本笔划库,可改变生成的字体种类.
来自互联网
5. Such a font would be ugly and just about unreadable.