(a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
(n.) An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.
Example Sentences:
(1) The parties all agreed that as a result of electronic spying breakthroughs they appear to be now collecting “medical, legal and religious, or restricted business information, which may be regarded as an intrusion of privacy (my italics)”.
(2) Treatment of HSV-1-infected cells with the oligo(nucleoside methylphosphonate) d(TpCCTCCTG) (deoxynucleoside methylphosphonate residues in italic), which is complementary to the acceptor splice junction of HSV-1 IE pre-mRNA 4 and 5, before (1-24 hr) or at the time of infection caused a dose-dependent inhibition in virus replication.
(3) Muddles, on the other hand, are created when useful distinctions that could be drawn are not[,] or when an unnecessary distinction is drawn" (5, p. 71; italics omitted), or when when a useful distinction is minimized or blurred.
(4) Sentences come heavy with italics and euphemism, sometimes both.
(5) The italic wording in the letters is compulsory, but you may add or remove other wording.
(6) Whereas the gene and cDNA should be italicized, the corresponding transcript, protein, and enzyme activity should not be written with lowercase letters or in italics, e.g., human or murine UGT2B1.
(7) But perhaps what's most significant is how it has been marketed as "the first female-driven comedy to come out of the Judd Apatow [my italics] Funny Machine" (MTV).
(8) Regarding the role of trabecular bone at the knee joint, the following conclusions may be emphasized (conclusions drawn from the author's previous studies (I-X) are shown in italics): (1) Trabecular bone is almost exclusively responsible for the transmission of load at the proximal tibial epiphysis from the knee joint to the metaphysis.
(9) They suggest that the bone disease of Itai-Ital patients may also have started prior to the onset of this type of renal dysfunction.
(10) The following is the sequence flanking the thioester residues in C3, the highly conserved amino acids being underlined and the the thioester-forming residues being indicated by italics: 1005V-T-P-S-G-C-G-E-Q-N-M-I-G-M-T-P-T1021.
(11) David was mainly interested in political influence, and despised the commercialism of Kemsley, whose Sunday Times was conservative and printed reverential editorials about the royal family in italics.
(12) [My italics] There are 25,000 employees of the NSA (and many tens of thousands more who work for private contracts assigned to the agency).
(13) In reality, the injury had been self-inflicted, and he had lost a lung, his spleen, several ribs, and a finger, "but nothing else (my italics)".
(14) [2] and their generalization that, for the evaluation of genetic radiation hazards in man, we can now "extrapolate from mutation rates obtained in lower organisms to man with greater confidence" on the basis of DNA content (italics are ours).
(15) The amino-acid substitution, due to a point mutation, is written in the one-letter code (italized sample).
(16) Throughout the text certain terms are given in italics when first used in that particular description and Part 2 gives full explanations of these terms in the context of Part 1.
(17) – with the charity's point of view, written in italics: "First get inside the head of a 16-year-old bed-wetting boy."
(18) Let's take as a wild for-instance Lembit Opik's kerazy wig, bought at a taxpayer cost (can we just assume outraged italics, from now on, where the word "taxpayer" occurs?
(19) British Security Technologies is parked outside another mansion, its van promising in italic lettering: "We'll Keep You Safe 'n' Sound Tonight."
(20) Lagos is no longer the federal cap ital, but it is still the commercial, cultural and trading centre of West Africa, providing most of Nigeria's taxes and revenue.
Print
Definition:
(v. t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
(v. t.) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
(v. t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.
(v. t.) To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
(v. t.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.
(v. i.) To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
(v. i.) To publish a book or an article.
(n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.
(n.) A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
(n.) That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
(n.) Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
(n.) That which is produced by printing.
(n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate.
(n.) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.
(n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.
(n.) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.
(n.) A core print. See under Core.
Example Sentences:
(1) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
(2) When very large series of strains are considered, the coding can be completely done and printed out by any computer through a very simple program.
(3) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
(4) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(5) How does it stack up against the competition – and are there any nasties in the small print?
(6) A wide range of development possibilities for the printed circuit microelectrode are discussed.
(7) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
(8) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
(9) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(10) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.
(11) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
(12) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
(13) A microcomputer system is described for the collection, analysis and printing of the physiological data gathered during a urodynamic investigation.
(14) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
(15) The four are the spoken language, the written language, the printing press and the electronic computer.
(16) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
(17) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
(18) Brand names would instead be printed in small type and feature large health warnings and gruesome, full-colour images of the consequences of smoking.
(19) An interactive image-processing workstation enables rapid image retrieval, reduces the examination repeat rate, provides for image enhancement, and rapidly sets the desired display parameters for laser-printed images.
(20) But printing money year after year to pay for things you can’t afford doesn’t work – and no good Keynesian would ever call for it.