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Meaning of "italics" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ITALICS

italics  [ɪˈtælɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ITALICS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Italics is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ITALICS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

italics

Italic type

In typography, italic type is a cursive typeface based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, such typefaces often slant slightly to the right. Different glyph shapes from roman type are also usually used—another influence from calligraphy. True italics are therefore distinct from oblique type, in which the font is merely distorted into a slanted orientation. However, uppercase letters are often oblique type or swash capitals rather than true italics. This style is called "italic" for historical reasons. Calligraphic typefaces started to be designed in Italy, for chancery purposes. Ludovico Arrighi and Aldus Manutius were the main type designers involved in this process at the time. "Italics are the print equivalent of underlining" and typewriter users underlined words that would normally appear as italics in professionally printed works.

Definition of italics in the English dictionary

The definition of italics in the dictionary is italic type or print.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ITALICS


alec
ˈælɪk
bimetallic
ˌbaɪmɪˈtælɪk
Daedalic
dɪˈdælɪk
genitalic
ˌdʒenɪˈtælɪk
intermetallic
ˌɪntəmɪˈtælɪk
italic
ɪˈtælɪk
malic
ˈmælɪk
malik
ˈmælɪk
metallic
mɪˈtælɪk
monometallic
ˌmɒnəʊmɪˈtælɪk
multimetallic
ˌmʌltɪməˈtælɪk
nonmetallic
ˌnɒnmɪˈtælɪk
organometallic
ɔːˌɡænəʊmɪˈtælɪk
salic
ˈsælɪk
santalic
sænˈtælɪk
semicrystallic
ˌsemɪkrɪˈstælɪk
semimetallic
ˌsemɪməˈtælɪk
symmetallic
ˌsɪməˈtælɪk
tantalic
tænˈtælɪk
terephthalic
ˌtɛrɛfˈθælɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ITALICS

italianist
Italianization
Italianize
italic
italicisation
italicise
Italicism
italicization
italicize
Italy
Itar Tass
ITC
itch
itch mite
itchily
itchiness
itching
itching palm
itching powder
itchweed

WORDS THAT END LIKE ITALICS

aquatics
basics
classics
comics
Community of Sovereign Republics
consumer electronics
cosmetics
dynamics
economics
electronics
forensics
graphics
hydraulics
logistics
lyrics
mathematics
physics
politics
statistics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Synonyms and antonyms of italics in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «italics» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ITALICS

Find out the translation of italics to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of italics from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «italics» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

斜体字
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cursiva
570 millions of speakers

English

italics
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इटैलिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المائل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

курсив
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

itálico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তির্যক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

italique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Italik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kursivschrift
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

イタリック体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이탤릭체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Miring
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nghiêng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இடாலிக்ஸில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तिर्यक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

italik yazı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

italics
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kursywa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

курсив
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

italice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλάγιους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kursief
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kursiv
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kursiv
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of italics

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ITALICS»

The term «italics» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.044 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of italics
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «italics».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ITALICS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «italics» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «italics» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about italics

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ITALICS»

Discover the use of italics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to italics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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In Italics: In Defense of Ethnicity
Poet and novelist, Antonio D'Alfonso has been writing essays and giving in-depth interviews for twenty years. This collection contains the most important of these texts which have been reworked into a coherent entity.
Antonio D'Alfonso, 1996
2
Inexplicable: Why Did I Survive (in Italics) Autobiography ...
Seven INEXPLICABLE near death episodes will take you with me on my tumultuous journey from the Adirondack Mountains to the Blue Ridge Mountains of extreme North Georgia.
Frederick Julius Kopp, 2012
3
MHRA Style Guide: A Handbook for Authors, Editors, and ...
Avoid the use of italics for rhetorical emphasis. Any word or phrase individually discussed should, however, be in italics, and any interpretation of it in single quotation marks: He glosses pale as 'fenced land, park'. It may also be desirable to ...
Glanville Price, Brian Richardson, 2008
4
Intrigue in Italics
Librarian-turned-travel-bookstore-owner, Claire Gulliver, joins her mother, Millie, and her mother's friend, Ruth, in Italy.
Gayle Wigglesworth, 2006
5
Saved by Works...Christ's Works!
42. Christ's Object Lessons, p. 312. 43. Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 509, italics added. 44. The Desire of Ages, p. 385. 45. Ibid., italics added. 46. Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, p. 87, italics added. 47. Christ's Object Lessons, p. 117. 48 .
James Prest, 2010
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Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word
Underlining and Italics. In publications, underlining is used for bibliographic entries and other elements not relevant to transcripts. Italic typeface is commonly used in publications to indicate emphasis, foreign words, scholarly words, and terms ...
Willow Roberts Powers, 2005
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Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age, Brief
Referred to as Such Using Example 4 Using italics to refer to words, letters, and numbers The word weird is derived from Old English. Spell out 5 as five unless exact quantities are critical or you're reporting data. Speakers of Maay-Maay from  ...
David Blakesley, Jeffrey Hoogeveen, 2011
8
The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim ...
52, italics in original (MEW, 1:385). 67. Ibid., p. 53. 68. Ibid., p. 47. 69. Ibid., italics in original. 70. Ibid., p. 53, italics in original. 71. Marx, “Kreuznach, in September 1843” (letter to Arnold Ruge, originally published in Deutsch-Franzdsische ...
Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Jeffrey C Alexander, 2014
9
Learn Good Business Writing and Communication (Collection)
Italics Italics (a slanted typeface) is available only in printed material or on word- processing systems capable of printing italics. In handwritten or typed material, underlining replaces italics. See UNDERLINING. Some conventions about italics  ...
Natalie Canavor, Claire Meirowitz, Stephen R. Covey, 2013
10
Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in ...
TYPING. DIFFERENCE: THE. USE. OF. ITALICS. The italicizing of words and phrases — a practice that appears on the first page and then with gathering force as the novel advances — typographically formalizes the foreignness of a discourse ...
Janet L. Beizer, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ITALICS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term italics is used in the context of the following news items.
1
There Will Be Lies by Nick Lake – review | Children's books | The …
At the start of the novel, everyone else's speech is written in italics – except ... Within the Dreaming itself, everyone speaks without italics, which ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Game Time - Times Union
Italics indicate same-day tape programming. Stations reserve the right to make last-minute changes. On this date. 1896: James Foulis wins the ... «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
3
Media picks South Carolina Gamecocks to finish 4th in SEC East …
... full predicted finishing order (overall champ in bold, overall voting points in parentheses; championship voting points, if necessary, in italics): ... «Garnet And Black Attack, Jul 15»
4
Today at the Buxton Festival & Fringe - Saturday July 18 - Buxton …
Events listed in bold italics are in both the Festival and the Fringe. Fringe events marked * denote advanced bookings can be made from the ... «Buxton Advertiser, Jul 15»
5
Smokey summer cookouts are the way to go - Hamilton Spectator
He paused and then spoke in italics: "It's never going to happen." Flay's advice, in keeping with the practice of his fellow professionals, was no ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
6
Fruits And Veggies Are Still Lacking From The American Diet
The research team emphasized, underlined, turned to bold and italics that fruits and veggies are necessary for the body and essential to living ... «Apex Tribune, Jul 15»
7
Justice may be blind, but should it be blind to punctuation …
Our friend Manutius, by the way, also invented the semicolon and italics. But that's a story for another day. Sources: Columbus Dispatch ... «The Virginian-Pilot, Jul 15»
8
Dancing cranes in the Flickr pool - Greater Greater Washington
... can use some HTML, like
quoting another comment
, italics , and hyperlinks . «Greater Greater Washington, Jul 15»
9
Unveiling Senator Saraki – The man on a mission to bring the PDP …
(italics mine). Saraki should not be used to blackmail President Buhari and his party to rid the country of corruption. Some of the political office ... «Osun Defender, Jul 15»
10
Warning Lights And Helpful Hints: How Wording And Typeface Mess …
Users are looking for ways to organize your pages in their heads quickly. Headings and text stylings like italics and boldface help them chunk ... «Business 2 Community, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Italics [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/italics>. Apr 2024 ».
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