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Answer for the clue "Type that's inclined to stand out? ", 6 letters:
italic

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Word definitions for italic in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s (adj.), 1670s (n.) "italic type," from Latin italicus "Italian" (see Italian ); so called because it was introduced in 1501 by Aldus Manutius, printer of Venice (who also gave his name to Aldine ), and first used in an edition of Virgil dedicated ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Composite \Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), a. [L. compositus made up of parts, p. p. of componere. See Compound , v. t., and cf. Compost .] Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. ...

Usage examples of italic.

Of Rome when it was a small village threatened by the other Italic tribes, the Sabines, Aequi, and Volsci?

But these letters, which were written in a minute Italic hand, in the blackest ink on Mr.

The early Italic Lucina was a goddess of light and therefore-because birth is the first time we see her-of labor and childbed as well.

On a coffee table, as in a dentist's office, were slick magazines, in casual disarray, with titles like Literature and Wit, The Poetic Athanor, The Rose and the Thorn, The Italic Parnassus, Free Verse.

It is difficult to decide the exact extent of his knowledge, but those familiar with his writings can scarcely fail to be satisfied that he had a sufficient acquaintance with the language to correct his Italic version by the Greek Testament and the LXX.

And this, of course, became the Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Celtic, and a dozen other language families which were not recorded or even heard of by civilized peoples.

If you look at the computer code for a wordprocessor and a spread­sheet, you'll find they have an awful lot in common, routines for reading the keyboard, printing to the screen, searching for a given text string, changing fonts to italic, responding to a click on the mouse .