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italic

/ih-tal-ik, ahy-tal-/US // ɪˈtæl ɪk, aɪˈtæl- //UK // (ɪˈtælɪk) //

斜体,楷体,斜体字,斜体的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type.
    • : of or relating to Italy, especially ancient Italy or its tribes.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Often italics. italic type.
    • : a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, including ancient Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and modern Romance.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Emotions cause the brain to store memory in a stronger and more permanent fashion, set down in bold type and italics.

  • Note that text format (bold or italic) has semantic meaning in this volume.

  • Still another abhors dashes or colons, or quotation marks, and yet another will not have Italic type used in his work.

  • Pervenerunt ad nos propositiones qudam Italic satis Lutheran.

  • Quirinus, kwi-rī′nus, n. an Italic divinity identified with the deified Romulus.

  • At the north pole is an hour circle bearing the inscription “Index Hor: Italic.”