What's the difference between character and font?

Character


Definition:

  • (n.) A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.
  • (n.) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character.
  • (n.) The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition.
  • (n.) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; as, he has a great deal of character.
  • (n.) Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.
  • (n.) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.
  • (n.) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation; as, a man's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character.
  • (n.) A written statement as to behavior, competency, etc., given to a servant.
  • (n.) A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Caesar is a great historical character.
  • (n.) One of the persons of a drama or novel.
  • (v. t.) To engrave; to inscribe.
  • (v. t.) To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
  • (2) In high concentrations of antiserum, some of the agglutinated cells of L. h. hertigi were enlarged and showed syncytial characters that included up to five nuclei, two dividing nuclei and five basal bodies associated with a single kinetoplast.
  • (3) Recently, it has been proposed that beta-adrenergic receptors of rat fat cells are neither beta 1 nor beta 2 in character but rather an 'isoreceptor,' 'hybrid,' or 'beta 3' [Br.
  • (4) The Nazi party’s office of racial purity claimed that the Jewish character was essentially drug-dependent.
  • (5) This paper discusses the relationship between the psychoanalytic concept of character and the moral considerations of 'character'.
  • (6) One-hundred characters were derived from morphological features, physiological and biochemical activities and SEM micrographs.
  • (7) Diagnosis based on the character of the stridor alone is tenuous, and consideration of presentation other than the stridor is discussed in the management of these infants.
  • (8) The determining component of daily energy consumption is energy consumption during the working period the value of which depends on the character of working activity and duration of the working shift.
  • (9) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
  • (10) At higher concentrations of burimamide, inhibition curves showed distinct evidence of departure from competitive character for both guinea pig and rabbit atria.
  • (11) The whole film is primarily shown from the character's perspective, so 70% of the process involved working with the director of photography [Maxime Alexandre].
  • (12) These last specialized characters are observed, on the contrary, in species parasitic in Lagomorpha.
  • (13) Little deficit in total mesodermal cell number was found, though the entire mesoderm adopted the histological character proper to only some 40% of that in the normal pattern i.e.
  • (14) And Pippi Longstocking, her most famous character, comes really close to being the personified proof of that… So where did Pippi come from?
  • (15) The character was wild and dangerous, psychotic but alluring.
  • (16) Some of the viruses could be differentiated from each other (especially in C. quinoa) by other characters, such as the accumulation of membranes in cell nuclei, or the type of organelle (chloroplasts, mitochondria or peroxisomes) from which multivesicular bodies developed.
  • (17) The term phlegmonous enterocolitis or gastritis defines an acute inflammatory process with purulent or nonpurulent character, that selectively damages the gastric, small and large intestines submucosal layer.
  • (18) I think a long time ago television passed up movies in terms of a reasonable and balanced portrayal of gay characters.
  • (19) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (20) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.

Font


Definition:

  • (n.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
  • (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
  • (n.) A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • iOS 7 is the product of a major redesign – new, thin fonts and a brighter interface with more subtle animation.
  • (2) With no font preferences, every designer can do a picture-perfect layout on every screen, because they don't have to reflow the text accordingly, which is what websites should always do," he says.
  • (3) A pixação-inspired font, Adrenalina , can be downloaded for US$25 and, in 2012, the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art invited a group of pixadores to make an “artistic intervention”.
  • (4) Possible signings Ryan Bertrand, Virgil van Djik, José Fonte (Southampton).
  • (5) But the deeply idiosyncratic Octopuss font on the station sign is a reminder that ‘77 was also the year of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love and Saturday Night Fever: the end of the world may have been nigh, but one corner of Berlin was boogying the night away to uphold western civilisation.
  • (6) At least Farah has now put some distance in their relationship by moving to Font Romeu, his traditional summer camp in the south of France.
  • (7) Stuart, our guide from Wilderness Scotland, is easy-going and unassuming, and also a font of knowledge and a meticulous safety checker.
  • (8) These led to the following conclusions: to construct the best bibliographic searching system at the present time, 1) a concept of micro-to-mainframe links (MML) is needed for the computer hardware network; 2) multi-lingual font standards and an excellent common user-computer interface are needed for the computer software; 3) a short course and education of database management systems, and support of personal information processing for retrieved data are necessary for the practical use of the system.
  • (9) A series of 126 cases of orbitomaxillozygomatic fractures observed in the Maxillofacial Unit of Miulli Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonte between January 1980 and December 1987 is examined.
  • (10) On the U6, a line once dotted with “ghost stations” closed during the GDR era, there are still some stops which look lost in time, such as Platz der Luftbrücke or Naturkundemuseum, their names spelled out in wobbly handcarved fonts.
  • (11) Fonts differ between lines, sometimes between stations on the same line, and in a couple of instances even between platforms at the same station.
  • (12) Southampton had lost Toby Alderweireld to an early injury but Florin Gardos seamlessly filled the gap alongside José Fonte.
  • (13) Sturridge raced down the right and attempted to lay the ball across to the unmarked Suárez but José Fonte stretched to poke the ball behind just as the Uruguayan prepared to pounce.
  • (14) The absence of Toby Alderweireld from central defence is an obvious worry as the Belgian has formed a solid partnership with José Fonte since arriving on loan from Atlético Madrid in September.
  • (15) After Ramsey's fancy flick was diverted by Jose Fonte, Wilshere burst on to the ball and eked out a chip so delicate it sailed over Boruc as if in slow motion.
  • (16) Suarez would have an empty net to sidefoot into had the ball reached him, Boruc having raced out to meet Sturridge, but the low pass is poked out of play by Fonte, sliding in brilliantly.
  • (17) Southampton 1-1 Sunderland (Fonte 88) Another late goal for the Saints.
  • (18) After Forster’s world-class, one-handed save from Giroud’s header, Arsenal sensed the decisive moment was close and it came after José Fonte appeared to have handled inside the area under pressure from Giroud.
  • (19) Spends much of each year training at altitude at Font Romeu in the French Pyrenees and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • (20) Possible signings José Fonte (Southampton), Nélson Semedo (Benfica).