Wondering how to use Glyph in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Glyph meaning
- A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.
- Any of various figures used in Mayan writing.
Synonyms of Glyph
Using Glyph
- The main meaning on this page is: A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. | A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. | Any of various figures used in Mayan writing.
- Useful related words include: glyptic art, glyptography.
- In the example corpus, glyph often appears in combinations such as: the glyph, glyph for, glyph is.
Context around Glyph
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Glyph
- In this selection, "glyph" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, handshape, contact, input, located, indicates and lighting stand out and add context to how "glyph" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bull glyph and a contact glyph indicates that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "glyph" sits close to words such as aas, abdicated and abled, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with glyph
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A small glyph placed inside another is called an infix. (10 words)
Archaeology In archaeology, a glyph is a carved or inscribed symbol. (11 words)
The one who drew that one glyph in, uh, that one cave. (12 words)
Bimoraic syllables are now written with two letters, as in Japanese: diphthongs are written with the help of V or hV glyphs, and the nasal coda is written with the glyph for ŋ, which can form a syllable of its own in Vai. (43 words)
A mark handled this way will appear over whatever character precedes it, but will not adjust its position relative to the width or height of the base glyph; it may be visually awkward and it may overlap some glyphs. (39 words)
The original specs, including a Pentium 4 Processor and a single gig of DDR RAM, may not seem too intimidating today, but the H. P. Lovecraft-inspired Necronomicon Glyph window, tentacles and evil LED eyes definitely hold up. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Each glyph's hinting program takes account of the size (in pixels) at which the glyph is to be displayed, as well as other less important factors of the display environment.
That is, a handshape glyph located at the side of the face, together with a contact glyph, indicates that the hand touches the side of the face.
The outer profile of the glyph is completed by scraping away with a graver the material outside the counter spaces, leaving only the stroke or lines of the glyph.
This relies on the input glyph being correctly isolated from the rest of the image, and on the stored glyph being in a similar font and at the same scale.
The Glyph lighting on the back is still present, though the LED strips are broke up into more segments this time around.
This year’s Glyph pattern is slightly different, with more individual LED strips making up a similar pattern.
Known for their stubborn nature, it's only fitting those falling under the sign are represented by a bull glyph.
The glyph discovered in the beta shows two wireless earbuds with what looks to be interchangeable tips.
The iOS 13.2 beta includes a glyph that suggests the development of the new AirPods with an in-ear design that sports traditional ear tips.
The one who drew that one glyph in, uh, that one cave.
Up on this week's dive into the historical vaults of alt, post-punk, goth, etc, it's Split Enz, Curve, and a band with a glyph for a name.
But in iOS 12 you can launch an augmented reality feature right through the default Safari web browser any time you see that transparent cube glyph.
The original specs, including a Pentium 4 Processor and a single gig of DDR RAM, may not seem too intimidating today, but the H. P. Lovecraft-inspired Necronomicon Glyph window, tentacles and evil LED eyes definitely hold up.
A combining character has its distinct glyph, but it applies to a character box of another character, a spacing one.
A mark handled this way will appear over whatever character precedes it, but will not adjust its position relative to the width or height of the base glyph; it may be visually awkward and it may overlap some glyphs.
A "pure" syllabary would require a separate glyph for every syllable in English.
Archaeology In archaeology, a glyph is a carved or inscribed symbol.
A shell glyph – – was used as a zero symbol for these Long Count dates, the earliest of which (on Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas ) has a date of 36 BC.
A small glyph placed inside another is called an infix.
Bimoraic syllables are now written with two letters, as in Japanese: diphthongs are written with the help of V or hV glyphs, and the nasal coda is written with the glyph for ŋ, which can form a syllable of its own in Vai.
Common combinations with glyph
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the glyph 14×
- glyph for 8×
- glyph is 7×
- glyph in 3×
- each glyph 3×
- glyph being 2×
- glyph was 2×
- same glyph 2×
- or glyph 2×
- glyph stands 2×