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Italic (iou) and zoom lens (oh)


Italic (iou)



Italic adjective & noun. LME.
[Latin Italicus from Greek Italikos, from Italia Italy from Latin: see -IC.]
A. adjective.
1. = Italian adjective. LME-M18.
2. a. Architecture. = COMPOSITE adjective 2. M16.
b. Classical History. Of or pertaining to the Greek colonies in southern Italy, esp. of or pertaining to the Pythagorean and Eleatic schools of philosophy founded there in the 6th cent. BC. M17.
c. Hist. Of or pertaining to ancient Italy or its peoples; spec. of or pertaining to parts of ancient Italy Other than Rome. L17.
3. (Usu. italic.) Of printed or handwritten characters: generally cursive and sloping to the right. Also, of type, printing, or handwriting: composed of such characters. E17.
b. Of handwriting: modelled on the style used by professional scribes in 16th-cent. Italy. M20.
4. Linguistics. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Italic (see sense B.3 below). M19.
B. noun.
1. A member of an Italic school of philosophy (see sense A.2b above). L16.
2. (Usu. italic.) In pl. & sing. Italic characters (in printing now usu. employed for emphasis, in titles of works, or to distinguish a word or phrase, esp. a foreign one). L17.
3. A branch of the Indo-European language family including Osco-Umbrian, Latin, and the Romance Languages; spec. (a) the ancient Languages of this group; (b) Osco-Umbrian. L19.
Italicism noun (rare) an Italian expression or idiom L18.

zoom lens (oh)



n [C]
a camera lens that can change from a distant to a close view