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ligature 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈligəCHər/,/-ˌCHo͝or/,
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ligatures, plural;
  1. Bind or connect with a ligature

Noun
  1. A thing used for tying or binding something tightly

  2. A cord or thread used in surgery, esp. to tie up a bleeding artery

  3. A slur or tie

  4. A character consisting of two or more joined letters, e.g., æ, fl

  5. A stroke that joins adjacent letters in writing or printing

  1. (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
  2. character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
  3. a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone
  4. thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)
  5. binder: something used to tie or bind
  6. tying: the act of tying or binding things together
  7. Connecting stroke in handwriting. Also refers to calligraphic embellishments to characters (see Ligature (typography)).
  8. In surgery or medical procedure, a ligature consists of a piece of thread (suture) tied around an anatomical structure, usually a blood vessel or another hollow structure (e.g. urethra) to shut it off. ...
  9. In music notation, a ligature is a graphic symbol that represents two or more notes that are written and sung in a single gesture, and on a single syllable, primarily in use ca. 800-1650 AD. ...
  10. Elastic ligature is a term used in orthodontics for the small elastic that is used to affix the archwire to the bracket. Ligatures are usually changed at each adjustment, and come in many varied colors including transparent. ...
  11. In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph. ...
  12. The act of tying or binding something; A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct; A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype; A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved ...
  13. (Ligatures) The combining of two or more letters that are not ordinarily combined in Arabic and Persian.
  14. (Ligatures) Two or more letters joined together on the same body. Bell, in 1788, showed his new English roman and italic founts including ae oe fi ff fl ffi ffl ct st |b |h |i |k |l || |t ||i (where | represents the long s). ...
  15. letters which are joined together as a single unit of type such as oe and fi.
  16. A ligature is a special character that is used to represent a sequence of characters. This is best explained by example -- when the letter fi are rendered, the dot on the ``i'' collides with the ``f'', and the serif on the top left of the i can also collide with the horizontal stroke of the f. ...
  17. A thin wire that holds your archwire into your bracket..
  18. a method of writing certain letter combinations in which two separate letters are joined into a new form
  19. a single shape or glyph that represents two or more underlying characters. See also conjunct.
  20. Any written symbol that involves squishing two or more letters into each other. The symbol for the letter ash in Old English, for instance, is an a and an e crunched together.
  21. In Medieval chant notation, a ligature is a cluster of neumes that are connected together.
  22. In type it is the characters that are bound to each other, such as oe and ae. In professional typefaces the lowercase f is also often set as a ligature in combination with other characters such as fi and fl.
  23. Ligatures are two or more characters in sequence joined into a single unit. For example, the ae‐ligature (æ) and oe‐ligature (œ). They were used with movable type for thin characters that become illegible when run together, and in elegant handwriting. ...
  24. two or more letters that are grouped or 'tied' together, for example in some typefaces the 'fi' and 'oe' sequences overlapped which looked terrible, this is rectified by ligature.
  25. The apparent combination of two characters by a stroke or tie.