 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
italic
adjective
1: characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters"
2: of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic
dialects"
noun
1: a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the
right
2: a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is
the chief representative [syn: {Italic language}]
3: a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Composite \Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), adjective [L. compositus made up of
parts, p. p. of componere. See {Compound}, verb (used with an object), and cf.
{Compost}.]
1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a
composite language.
Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite.
--Landor.
2. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of
the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called
also the {Roman} or the {Italic} order, and is one of the
five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the
sixteenth century. See {Capital}.
3. (Bot.) Belonging to the order {Composit[ae]}; bearing
involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy,
thistle, and dandelion.
{Composite carriage}, a railroad car having compartments of
different classes. [Eng.]
{Composite number} (Math.), one which can be divided exactly
by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3..
{Composite photograph} or {Composite portrait}, one made by a
combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs.
--F. Galton.
{Composite sailing} (Naut.), a combination of parallel and
great circle sailing.
{Composite ship}, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Italic \I*tal"ic\, adjective [L. Italicus: cf. F. italique. Cf.
{Italian}.]
1. Relating to Italy or to its people.
2. 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.
{Italic languages}, the group or family of languages of
ancient Italy.
{Italic order} (Arch.), the composite order. See {Composite}.
{Italic school}, a term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic
philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were
first promulgated.
{Italic version}. See {Itala}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Italic \I*tal"ic\, noun; pl. {Italics}. (Print.)
An Italic letter, character, or type (see {Italic}, adjective, 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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "italic":
ascender, autograph, autographic, back, bastard type, beard, belly,
bevel, black letter, body, calligraphic, cap, capital, case,
chirographic, counter, cursive, descender, em, en, engrossed, face,
fat-faced type, feet, flowing, font, graphic, graphoanalytic,
graphologic, graphometric, groove, holograph, holographic,
in longhand, in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italicized,
letter, ligature, logotype, longhand, lower case, majuscule,
manuscript, minuscule, nick, on paper, penciled, penned, pi, pica,
point, print, printed, roman, running, sans serif, script,
scriptorial, scriptural, shank, shorthand, shoulder, small cap,
small capital, stamp, stem, stylographic, type, type body,
type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders,
typefoundry, upper case, written
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