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Definition: Glyph |
GlyphNoun1. Glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glyph" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Glyph |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A glyph is a carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted.
In typography, a glyph is a graphical representation of a character, sometimes several characters or only a part of character. A character is a textual unit whereas a glyph is a graphical unit. For example the sequence of ffi will be represented by one glyph in TeX.
In the simple case, for a given font (typeface and size), each character corresponds to a single glyph but this is not always the case, especially in a language with a large alphabet where one character may correspond to several glyphs or several characters to one glyph (a character encoding). The term is usually used in particular reference to outline fonts.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Glyph."
Crosswords: Glyph |
| English words defined with "glyph": Triglyph. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glyph": kanji ♦ spaceship operator ♦ Unicode ♦ Yu-Shiang Whole Fish. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glyph": Glyptodon. (references) |
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| "Glyph" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glyph" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glyph | 50 |
capricorn glyph | 7 |
glyph hard drive | 4 |
glyph drive | 4 |
glyph technology | 3 |
glyph zodiac | 3 |
dolby gigastudio glyph mackie plugin | 3 |
glyph libra symbol | 2 |
font glyph | 2 |
glyph mayan | 2 |
cancer glyph | 2 |
glyph firewire | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "glyph"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 字圖 . (various references) | |
Danish | glyf. (various references) | |
Dutch | glief. (various references) | |
Finnish | glyyfi. (various references) | |
French | glyphe. (various references) | |
German | Glyphe, Rille (groove, furrow, score, slot), Furche (furrow, corrugation, line). (various references) | |
Greek | γλυφή (carving, chase). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rovátkoló díszítés. (various references) | |
Italian | glifo (groove). (various references) | |
Manx | glyff. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yphglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glifo. (various references) | |
Spanish | glifo. (various references) | |
Swedish | glyf. (various references) | |
Turkish | oyma kabartmalı şekil, oyma (carving, engraving, graven, intaglio, sculpture), kabartma (boss, embossment, raised, raising, relief, relievo). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glyph": glyphic, glyphs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glyph": anaglyph, hieroglyph, petroglyph, triglyph. (additional references) | |
Words containing "glyph": anaglyphic, anaglyphs, dermatoglyphic, dermatoglyphics, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphical, hieroglyphically, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs, petroglyphs, triglyphic, triglyphical, triglyphs. (additional references) | |
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"Glyph" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gdybh, glif, glip, glipe, glyp, glype, glyphe, gyf, Illych, lyff. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-l-p-y" | |
-2 letters: gyp, hyp, ply. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-l-p-y" | |
+1 letter: glyphs. | |
+2 letters: glyphic, phlegmy. | |
+3 letters: anaglyph, hypergol, hypogeal, triglyph. | |
+4 letters: anaglyphs, haplology, hypallage, hypergols, pathology, phenology, philology, phonology, phycology, phylogeny, piggishly, plaything, polygraph, polyphagy, sprightly, triglyphs, uprightly, xylograph. | |
+5 letters: anaglyphic, graphology, gypsophila, hieroglyph, holography, hypallages, hypergolic, lymphogram, morphology, nephrology, oligophagy, petroglyph, pharyngeal, phlebology, phrenology, physiology, playthings, playwright, polygraphs, polyphagia, priggishly, psephology, psychology, telegraphy, triglyphic, xylographs, xylography. | |
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