Name vs Font - What's the difference?

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As a pronoun name

is what?.

As a verb font is

name

English

Noun

(wikipedia name) (en noun)

Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

* Bible, Genesis ii. 19

Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

* Shakespeare

That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.

* 1904 , , (The Marvelous Land of Oz) :

So good a man as this must surely have a name .

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Reputation.

* 1604 , (William Shakespeare), :

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.[http://www.bartleby.com/100/138.34.42.html]

* 1952 , (Old Testament), Revised Standard Version , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:

And David won a name for himself.[http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Rsv2Sam.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=8&division=div1]

A person (or legal person).

* Dryden

They list with women each degenerate name .

* second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place , ISBN 1841692336, page 287 [http://books.google.com/books?id=7bxvJIs5_wsC&pg=PA287&dq=names]:

Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall,.

* 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management , ISBN 0074620975 page 79 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-IaKYHY0sogC&pg=PA79&dq=names]:

Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?

* 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability , ISBN 0203891058, page 29 [http://books.google.com/books?id=bM6MPBIFwkQC&pg=PA29&dq=names]:

International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and.

Those of a certain name; a race; a family.

* Macaulay

The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name , came every day to pay their feigned civilities.

(computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.

An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.

Synonyms

* proper name * See also

Derived terms

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Verb

(nam)
To give a name to.

* 1904:' , ''The Land of Oz'' — I will ' name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'

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To mention, specify.

To identify as relevant or important

To publicly implicate.

To designate for a role.

Derived terms

* codename * misname * name after * name names * you name it

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font
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) font, from (etyl) .

Noun
(en noun)
A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism

A receptacle for oil in a lamp.

(figuratively) spring, source, fountain

* 1919 , :

The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) fonte, feminine past participle of verb .

Alternative forms

* fount (UK)

Noun

(wikipedia font) (en noun)

(typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.

# In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.

# In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.

# In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.

(computing) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer. A font file.

Derived terms

* font family * multilingual font * Unicode font * bitmap font * screen font * outline font * printer font * font suitcase * roman font

References

* * Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5 , pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ISBN 0-88179-133-4.

Etymology 3

Apparently from (fount), with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

Noun

(en noun)

(figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.

* 1824 — , canto V

A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
The arts of which these lands were once the font

* 1910 — , part II

As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.

* 1915 —

I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.