Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Type with thick heavy lines.
- adj. Printed in thick heavy type.
- v. To mark (copy) for printing in this type.
- v. To set or print in this type.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who has a bold face; an impudent person.
- n. In printing, same as full-face.
Wiktionary
- n. typography A font that is dark, having a high ration of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines.
- v. To print, write or draw in a boldfaced font.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a typeface with thick heavy lines; -- also called
bold-faced . - v. to print in boldface.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a typeface with thick heavy lines
- v. print in boldface
- n. a typeface with thick heavy lines
Etymologies
- bold + face (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Goldstein: Bloggers, as distinct from other publishers, have less time/willingness to invest time, less money/willingness to invest money, and are interested in boldface instead of subtle.”
“I can put the above in boldface if you need me to.”
“Here's the quote, with the part that Wehner skips in boldface:”
“I'll even put it in boldface, I think it's so important.”
“Two quotes (shown in boldface below) come from this March 17, 2006, column:”
“[Passages in boldface for comparison purposes; see here for clean transcription.]”
“For instance, words that a site’s designer has set in boldface or used in section titles might get more weight than those in ordinary text, and the other sites linked to a page might indicate whether its references to “China” are more likely to concern crockery or a country.”
“When I have been unable to locate another source, I provide the URL of its last known location in boldface.”
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
“The final part of the Biblical citation is also unclear and thus concludes with an added question mark in boldface.”
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
“Here's a cartoon form -- the boldface is the true sequence; the rest are the observed reads:”
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Typography
An attempt to assemble all common typographic jargon.
typography, alignment, ascender, descender, baseline, boldface, bullet, cap height, glyph, condensed, digraph, backslant and 11 more...
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About Face
face, about face, about-face, facet, faced, face card, face value, face facts, facetious, Janus-faced, Boniface, volte-face and 70 more...
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homework
unique, intrinsic, stakes, excerpted, boldface, precise, negotiating, asynonyms, antonyms, convey, resonate, ornate and 13 more...
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