Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To print in italic type.
- transitive verb To underscore (written matter) with a single line to indicate italics.
- transitive verb To emphasize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To print in italic type, or underscore with a single line in writing: as, to
italicize emphatic words or sentences; in old books all names were commonly italicized. Also spelleditalicise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb typography To put into
italics . - verb figuratively To
emphasize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb print in italics
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why does Díaz not italicize the Spanish words (the way foreign words are usually italicized in
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz: Questions 2007
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The standard instruction to typesetters to italicize a word in a handwritten manuscript or a proof was to draw a line underneath it.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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I will suggest that the reason people still underline is that many of the results of googling “manuscript format” state most firmly that to italicize is to err.
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Italics are more than just the slanty-script you see in print to denote ship names and book titles, but it's the hand developed by Italian scribes during the Renaissance - hence the name Italic (which I 'italicize' here in the name of irony as much as description).
The ZehnKatzen Times 2009
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To italicize, please use lessthansignIgreaterthansign.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Faraway Soul’s Review Forum 2009
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Also, you can either italicize or blockquote the other person, you do not need to do both.
Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated) 2010
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The least I can do to make amends, now, is to compare the two, taking care to italicize their common elements.
Ellis Weiner: Rapture And Rand: Peas In A Pod Ellis Weiner 2011
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In some ways the system is better -- you can post links, italicize and so on without having to use html tags, for example -- but in many others it is substandard.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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The least I can do to make amends, now, is to compare the two, taking care to italicize their common elements.
Ellis Weiner: Rapture And Rand: Peas In A Pod Ellis Weiner 2011
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If I searched for your inside voice—something to italicize—would I find it shamed by your cruel exterior?
Nothing Between Us Christopher Allen 2011
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