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Italicize

To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much.

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Impress 76% connected

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Print 76% connected

To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Italic 74% connected

Relating to Italy or to its people.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Italic 74% connected

Relating to Italy or to its people.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Alignment noun · 78% connection

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…

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Alphabet noun · 78% connection

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

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Capital noun · 78% connection

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "print…

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Capital letter noun · 78% connection

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "print…

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Decipher verb · 78% connection

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

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Digram noun · 78% connection

two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: ‘sh’ in ‘shoe’)

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Digraph noun · 78% connection

two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: ‘sh’ in ‘shoe’)

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Erase verb · 78% connection

To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word…

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Imprint verb · 78% connection

To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon…

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Ivorytype noun · 78% connection

A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print…

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Joinhand noun · 78% connection

Writing in which letters are joined in words; -- distinguished from writing in single letters.

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Letter verb · 78% connection

To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

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Letterpress noun · 78% connection

Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the il…

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Line noun · 78% connection

A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.

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Majuscule noun · 78% connection

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "print…

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Pyrognostic adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpip…

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Read verb · 78% connection

To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by in…

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Reprint verb · 78% connection

To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.

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