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What (who) is italic - definition
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Italic (disambiguation)
italic
(italics)
1.
Italics are letters which slope to the right. Italics are often used to emphasize a particular word or sentence. The examples in this dictionary are printed in italics.
N-PLURAL
2.
Italic letters slope to the right.
She addressed them by hand in her beautiful italic script.
ADJ: ADJ n
italic
[?'tal?k]
¦ adjective Printing of the sloping kind of typeface used especially for emphasis and in foreign words.
?(of handwriting) cursive and sloping and with elliptical or pointed letters, in the style of 16th-century Italian handwriting.
¦ noun (also italics) an italic typeface or letter.
Derivatives
italicization or italicisation noun
italicize or italicise verb
Origin
ME (in the general sense 'Italian'): via L. from Gk Italikos, from Italia 'Italy'.
Italic
[?'tal?k]
¦ noun the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin and the Romance languages.
¦ adjective relating to or denoting the Italic group of languages.
Origin
C19: via L. from Gk Italikos (see italic).
Examples of use of italic
1. Father–of–four Lyttleton, who was long–standing president of the Society For Italic Handwriting, married twice, first in 1'48 and then again following a divorce in 1'52.
2. By using this it could be possible to find out how the italic letters could be matched with another set of letters placed in a different order to spell out a phrase.
3. Article continues Mr Smith, whose capacity for whimsy suggests that he is wasted in the high court and should immediately set up as a novelist, disclosed that his 71–page judgment contains a code of its own, a devious acrostic composed of carefully concealed italic letters.
4. He was just having a bit of fun." Yesterday the judge was being somewhat cryptic himself when asked about the italic letters, saying: "They don‘t look like typos, do they?" The judge, 53, who lists his interest in Who‘s Who as the Titanic Historical Society and Jackie Fisher, a British admiral best known for his efforts for naval reform, added: "I can‘t discuss the judgment, but I don‘t see why a judgment should not be a matter of fun." He said he would probably confirm it if someone broke the code, which he claims is "not a difficult thing to do". The judge ruled in favour of the American author Dan Brown after a three–week hearing about the sources of The Da Vinci Code, which has sold more than 40million copies and earned Brown an estimated 250million.