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单词 glyph
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Definition of glyph in English:

glyph

noun ɡlɪfɡlɪf
  • 1A hieroglyphic character or symbol.

    象形文字(或符号)

    flanges painted with esoteric glyphs

    绘有深奥的象形文字的翼缘。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I even spent an afternoon studying a book devoted to drawings of various Goddess symbols and glyphs found on ancient artifacts.
    • Schulman interprets the glyph as two Crescents of Soul interconnected via a Cross of Matter.
    • And there's this text, just sitting there, and it's clear as day, so distinct from the glyphs we've seen even at 100 B.C.
    • ‘Apartment 1004,’ she said, reading the Hebrew glyphs.
    • When they were first discovered, the glyphs in Mud Glyph Cave clearly resembled Southern Cult icons seen in the work of Mississippian peoples in the Southeast.
    • She took it lovingly, handling it so carefully, and read over the glyphs, the language of magic, several times.
    • Hence the Celtic designs on Irish crosses that closely resembled Druidic glyphs or Haitian Voodoo rituals that fuse the worship of Catholic saints with that of African Loas.
    • As she did so, she noticed the glyph that decorated the center of the cross guard.
    • The mat is charged with odd symbols and glyphs arranged in a circle between two concentric rings.
    • Because there are more than 4700 known glyphs - including almost 800 basic ones, of which some 400 are considered common - this has always been a lengthy and laborious task.
    • He summoned the energies not just through the focus he wore about his neck, but also through the glyphs and foci embedded in the excessive number of protective wards he had placed around the balcony and tower.
    • Glowing glyphs appeared on the edges, in some archaic, unknown language.
    • Deciphering writing systems, whether the Etruscan alphabet or Zapotec glyphs, is comparable in complexity to cracking the genetic code.
    • Carefully consulting the book, he scrawled various glyphs and runes at certain points in the design.
    • Basically, it's a series of implosions with glowing glyphs or runes.
    • The glyph for Neptune is the symbol of a trident, which stands for rulership over the sea.
    • In addition to the pure luxury of the items in the tent, and the canvas itself, everything in the room crawled with magic symbols and glyphs.
    • The author renders the word tradition into a signifier of doubtful intentions, a glyph whose meaning has yet to be ascertained.
    • What they could not have known was that each of the defensive glyphs and runes had been designed to fail in a specific way, directing the explosive fury of the failing magical matrix outward, away from the Royal Hall.
    • It especially rules women, as indicated by the glyph, which is the universal symbol for womankind.
    1. 1.1 A sculptured symbol (e.g. as forming the ancient Mayan writing system)
      (严格说来)雕刻的符号(如构成古代玛雅人的书写系统的符号)
      these glyphs refer to an ancient Olmec ruler
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But until recently, when linguists like David Kelley were able to translate Mayan glyphs, we knew very little about the Mayans.
      • Now showing with Liverpool Street Gallery, Watkins' canvases are arrayed around the room like blocky Mayan glyphs done in colour combinations that take years to master.
      • As my creativity tends to burble out chaotically, I've been trying to regulate my study, however, I've only really had any success with the Mayan calendar glyphs.
      • Maya tombs might bear directional glyphs on walls corresponding to each of the cardinal directions, as on the walls of Rio Azul Tomb 12, a royal or very elite burial from the fifth century CE.
      • As the breakthrough of recent years in the decipherment of Mayan glyphs reminds us, there are secrets in the ‘new-found’ land of America still to be unearthed.
      • An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.
      • Mayan examples are identified by glyphs and attributes, and are understood to represent specific subjects.
      • It was understood that a large percentage of the glyphs on any given Maya monument were dates - dates, moreover, that placed each object within an elaborate and incredibly precise series of calendrical cycles.
      • To make the glyphs, the ancient carvers used chisels, probably of hard, fine-grained quartzite, which they struck with hammers of stone or antler, each blow chipping out one small stone flake.
    2. 1.2Computing A small graphic symbol.
      〔计算机〕(小的)图示符
      Example sentencesExamples
      • To get around them, senders have resorted to representing these words using other characters and punctuation as glyphs to create letter and word shapes that our smart eyes and brains can discern, but stupid junk mail filters can't.
      • As I remarked, no font distinguishes the functions by consistent uses of these differently shaped glyphs.
      • In April 1997, Xerox said that Palm, then owned by US Robotics, had infringed that patent when it released Graffiti, a series of ‘shorthand’ symbols drawn instead of real character glyphs.
      • Topics covered are: fonts, size, color, leading, kerning, tracking, paragraph spacing and alignment, hyphenation and composition, glyphs and special characters.
      • The empty boxes are just a matter of fonts lacking the diacritic glyphs - OK, that's just a residue of history.
  • 2Architecture
    An ornamental carved groove or channel, as on a Greek frieze.

    〔建筑〕(如希腊式建筑壁缘上的)束腰竖沟,竖面浅槽饰,竖沟装饰

    Example sentencesExamples
    • According to glyphs carved on a stone altar, Yax K'uk Mo arrived at Copán on 8 February 427, five months after his coronation on 5 September 426.

Derivatives

  • glyphic

  • adjective
    • Many of his statements have a universalizing character: thoughts on glyphic markings on earliest African rock art, on the wall patterning of Great Zimbabwe and on cattle-keepers' interests in ornamentation in eastern Africa.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Delphin font is glyphic or inscriptional - used solely for setting the title.
      • This paper is a presentation of the findings and glyphic evidence of the investigation.
      • Most of the thousands of stamp seals that have been found are masterpieces of glyphic art, showing the large animals of northwestern India in miniature relief.
      • One of six ballplayer panels from Site Q, this sculpture, along with nine glyphic panels, were probably part of the same structure.

Origin

Late 18th century (in sense 2): from French glyphe, from Greek gluphē 'carving'.

Rhymes

biff, cliff, if, kif, miff, niff, quiff, riff, skew-whiff, skiff, sniff, spliff, stiff, tiff, whiff

Definition of glyph in US English:

glyph

nounɡlɪfɡlif
  • 1A hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph.

    象形文字(或符号)

    flanges painted with esoteric glyphs

    绘有深奥的象形文字的翼缘。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It especially rules women, as indicated by the glyph, which is the universal symbol for womankind.
    • Carefully consulting the book, he scrawled various glyphs and runes at certain points in the design.
    • Glowing glyphs appeared on the edges, in some archaic, unknown language.
    • What they could not have known was that each of the defensive glyphs and runes had been designed to fail in a specific way, directing the explosive fury of the failing magical matrix outward, away from the Royal Hall.
    • ‘Apartment 1004,’ she said, reading the Hebrew glyphs.
    • I even spent an afternoon studying a book devoted to drawings of various Goddess symbols and glyphs found on ancient artifacts.
    • He summoned the energies not just through the focus he wore about his neck, but also through the glyphs and foci embedded in the excessive number of protective wards he had placed around the balcony and tower.
    • Schulman interprets the glyph as two Crescents of Soul interconnected via a Cross of Matter.
    • Because there are more than 4700 known glyphs - including almost 800 basic ones, of which some 400 are considered common - this has always been a lengthy and laborious task.
    • The author renders the word tradition into a signifier of doubtful intentions, a glyph whose meaning has yet to be ascertained.
    • As she did so, she noticed the glyph that decorated the center of the cross guard.
    • The mat is charged with odd symbols and glyphs arranged in a circle between two concentric rings.
    • And there's this text, just sitting there, and it's clear as day, so distinct from the glyphs we've seen even at 100 B.C.
    • In addition to the pure luxury of the items in the tent, and the canvas itself, everything in the room crawled with magic symbols and glyphs.
    • Deciphering writing systems, whether the Etruscan alphabet or Zapotec glyphs, is comparable in complexity to cracking the genetic code.
    • Basically, it's a series of implosions with glowing glyphs or runes.
    • Hence the Celtic designs on Irish crosses that closely resembled Druidic glyphs or Haitian Voodoo rituals that fuse the worship of Catholic saints with that of African Loas.
    • The glyph for Neptune is the symbol of a trident, which stands for rulership over the sea.
    • When they were first discovered, the glyphs in Mud Glyph Cave clearly resembled Southern Cult icons seen in the work of Mississippian peoples in the Southeast.
    • She took it lovingly, handling it so carefully, and read over the glyphs, the language of magic, several times.
    1. 1.1 Strictly, a sculptured symbol (e.g., as forming the ancient Mayan writing system).
      (严格说来)雕刻的符号(如构成古代玛雅人的书写系统的符号)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But until recently, when linguists like David Kelley were able to translate Mayan glyphs, we knew very little about the Mayans.
      • To make the glyphs, the ancient carvers used chisels, probably of hard, fine-grained quartzite, which they struck with hammers of stone or antler, each blow chipping out one small stone flake.
      • As the breakthrough of recent years in the decipherment of Mayan glyphs reminds us, there are secrets in the ‘new-found’ land of America still to be unearthed.
      • As my creativity tends to burble out chaotically, I've been trying to regulate my study, however, I've only really had any success with the Mayan calendar glyphs.
      • Maya tombs might bear directional glyphs on walls corresponding to each of the cardinal directions, as on the walls of Rio Azul Tomb 12, a royal or very elite burial from the fifth century CE.
      • Mayan examples are identified by glyphs and attributes, and are understood to represent specific subjects.
      • It was understood that a large percentage of the glyphs on any given Maya monument were dates - dates, moreover, that placed each object within an elaborate and incredibly precise series of calendrical cycles.
      • An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.
      • Now showing with Liverpool Street Gallery, Watkins' canvases are arrayed around the room like blocky Mayan glyphs done in colour combinations that take years to master.
    2. 1.2Computing A small graphic symbol.
      〔计算机〕(小的)图示符
      Example sentencesExamples
      • To get around them, senders have resorted to representing these words using other characters and punctuation as glyphs to create letter and word shapes that our smart eyes and brains can discern, but stupid junk mail filters can't.
      • As I remarked, no font distinguishes the functions by consistent uses of these differently shaped glyphs.
      • In April 1997, Xerox said that Palm, then owned by US Robotics, had infringed that patent when it released Graffiti, a series of ‘shorthand’ symbols drawn instead of real character glyphs.
      • Topics covered are: fonts, size, color, leading, kerning, tracking, paragraph spacing and alignment, hyphenation and composition, glyphs and special characters.
      • The empty boxes are just a matter of fonts lacking the diacritic glyphs - OK, that's just a residue of history.
  • 2Architecture
    An ornamental carved groove or channel, as on a Greek frieze.

    〔建筑〕(如希腊式建筑壁缘上的)束腰竖沟,竖面浅槽饰,竖沟装饰

    Example sentencesExamples
    • According to glyphs carved on a stone altar, Yax K'uk Mo arrived at Copán on 8 February 427, five months after his coronation on 5 September 426.

Origin

Late 18th century (in glyph (sense 2)): from French glyphe, from Greek gluphē ‘carving’.

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