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glyphs

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for glyphs.

Editorial note

It will open in Font Book: View->Show Font Info says it hs 451 glyphs, and View->Repertoire shows that there are indeed glyphs representing each of the censored words.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of glyphs gathered in one view.

noun

A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.

noun

Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information.

noun

Any of various figures used in Mayan writing.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for glyphs.

noun

A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.

noun

Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information.

noun

Any of various figures used in Mayan writing.

noun

Any of various black-and-white noctuid moths with figural-like wing patterns, such as those in Protodeltote, Deltote, and Maliattha.

Example sentences

1

It will open in Font Book: View->Show Font Info says it hs 451 glyphs, and View->Repertoire shows that there are indeed glyphs representing each of the censored words.

2

Wasn't unicode supposed to be about encoding glyphs used to write human languages, not cliparts designed by entertainment corporations?

3

Firstly, there are practically no words comprising more than ten glyphs, yet there are also few one- or two-letter words.

4

Secondly, it was never possible to control information represented as glyphs (text, music scores, etc.).

5

You can just try to open some shell theme with those glyphs to test them.

6

All glyphs are exactly 0.5em wide so they can be compatible with 中日韩文字 (CJK characters, where every character are excatly 1em wide).

7

Powerline glyphs will be included later, though I can not test them since I am using VSCode.

8

I don't understand the last slide - are they public proponents of using font glyphs for icons?

9

Try focusing on the meaning being conveyed and not the glyphs representing it.

10

I have a patched version of profont for windows that correctly supports the powerline glyphs which I use in mintty.

11

The 'a' glyph annoys me, the rest of the glyphs are rounded.

12

I've found that using FontSquirrel's subsetting feature is a great way to reduce Font Awesome down to just the glyphs I use.

Quote examples

1

Other fonts have like 25 good glyphs and at least one "whoops" usually a M or W or E.

2

Again, I hold heartedly agree that "it was never possible to control information represented as glyphs".

3

These may have simply been "loan" glyphs, adopted to fill some phonological need, in the way that English doesn't have letters for 'sh', 'ch' or 'zh'.

4

I have to spend ten minutes reading obfuscated to text to understand that the font shows different glyphs when I type a "dangerous" word?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use glyphs in a sentence?

It will open in Font Book: View->Show Font Info says it hs 451 glyphs, and View->Repertoire shows that there are indeed glyphs representing each of the censored words.

What does glyphs mean?

A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.

What part of speech is glyphs?

glyphs is commonly used as noun.