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# glyph

«glyph» in Mova's school dictionary: **a picture or symbol used as a sign for a word, a sound or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a glyph, glyphs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A glyph is a picture or symbol used as a sign for a word, a sound or an idea, like an Egyptian hieroglyph or a Maya sign. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glyph/#m1)

2) In computers, a glyph is the shape drawn for a letter, number or symbol in a particular font. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glyph/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons glyphs are carved on stones by ancient Egyptians and the Maya. In computing, the letter A looks different in each font: each look is a glyph. Emojis are glyphs too. Phrases: Maya glyphs, a carved glyph.

### examples

- The Maya carved glyphs on stone to record dates and kings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glyph/#x1)
- Each Egyptian hieroglyph is a glyph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glyph/#x2)
- The archaeologist tried to read the glyph on the pot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glyph/#x3)
- This font has a funny glyph for the letter g. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glyph/#x4)
- A smiley face emoji is a kind of glyph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glyph/#x5)
- We drew our own glyphs to write a secret message. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glyph/#x6)

### note

Rhymes with «cliff». Countable: one glyph, two glyphs. «Hieroglyph» is a special kind of glyph from ancient Egypt.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glyph» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glyph/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.