Italic

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–adjective 

1. designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type. 

2. (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Italy, esp. ancient Italy or its tribes.  



–noun 

3. Often, italics. italic type. 

4. (initial capital letter) a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, including ancient Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and modern Romance.  



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American printed matter uses italics (the type fonts whose letters slant to the right) for the titles of literary and other artistic works (War and Peace, Verdi’s Requiem); 



for the names of journals and newspapers (The New York Times, Newsweek); 



for words, letters, and numbers cited as words, letters, and numbers (as here with the word italics); 



for foreign words and phrases (ars longa, vita brevis est), although when these loan words and phrases have been fully assimilated into English, we usually cease to italicize them, as with à la mode; 



for the names of ships (Queen Elizabeth II, or Q.E. II); 



and for a number of other technical purposes such as are usually specified in a publisher’s stylebook. 



In handwriting or typescript, underline what you wish to italicize. Italics are also used for emphasis and to indicate a heavier-than-normal stress on a word, particularly in Semiformal and Informal writing, although most editors discourage the practice. 



To achieve the effect of italics in the midst of a full sentence already in italics, put the word to be stressed in roman: We thought she’d never leave!





　



"Deception is just—horrible!" says McGregor. "It sounds like a bad movie! If you knew nothing about this film and somebody said 'Do you wanna Go see Deception?' the first word out of your mouth would be, 'No.'" He laughs.



"So I think they’ve f***ed it up already! Deception," he can’t help repeating with italicized disgust, trying out the title in a Spanish-sounding lisp.



with italicized disgust 應該是挺高級的用法 (筆記!!!)