Ligatures

Word LIGATURES
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈlɪɡətʃɚz/

Definitions and meanings of "Ligatures"

What do we mean by ligatures?

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 thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.

The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.

A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.

A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.

A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.

A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.

Impotence caused by magic or charms.

A letter (Æ or Œ) that are combinations of letters. They are intermediates between a and e or o and e. Urban Dictionary

That thingamajig on a clarinet mouthpiece that's a real PITA to adjust---you have to poke around on the bottom of the reed and avoid touching the rails of the mouthpiece in order to align the reed correctly. Urban Dictionary

(n.) A thing on Victor's clarinet. Urban Dictionary

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The word "ligatures" in example sentences

First of all, if there is any evidence right there where you are that events occurred there, items such as ligatures, any kinds of weapons, and kinds of personal effects purposely or accidentally left behind by the killer ... ❋ Unknown (2006)

First of all, if there is any evidence right there where you are that the events occurred there, items such as ligatures, any kind of weapons, any kinds of personal effects purposefully or accidentally left behind by the killer. ❋ Unknown (2006)

At the end of this ordeal, Dr. Cooper would close any incisions with silk sutures called "ligatures" and pack cotton wool into the wounds. ❋ Cornwell, Patricia (1930)

It has standard OpenType features such as ligatures, slashed zero, contextual alternates and lining figures. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Typography improvements such as ligatures, swashes and alternative numeral forms can be used with cursive or calligraphic fonts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All the combinations you listed are ligatures, meaning that the two separate letters are replaced by a single symbol combining the two. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The text layout engine provides new controls such as ligatures and right-to-left and vertical text rendering. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Similarly, there have been miles and miles of mail on inserting control characters for joiners and non-joiners in Unicode in order to produce typographic ligatures which is meaningless because according to ISO-IEC 10646, Zero Width Joiner and Zero Width Non-Joiner cannot be ignored in searching and sorting, so inserting these control characters kills content-based operations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I have thought of the possibility of putting the alternative script into the unshifted state, and the latin one into the SGCAPS state, as I also could use (while do not need) multiple codepoints ( "ligatures") mapped to a single key, which is (for me not quite clear reasons) impossible in the SGCAPS state, but this solution, having the primary script in the SGCAPS state seems, while perfect for me, unsatisfactory and unintuitive for packaging and distribution to a user community. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Notice the long "s" which looks like an uncrossed "f" and the ligatures on the bottom line of this alphabet. ❋ Carolyn Vega (2011)

I wanted to say that the lack of ligatures that I pointed out, to the slight dismay of Mr. Butler, was also pointed out by half a dozen people on the mailing list (although only one of them actually used the term). ❋ Msagara (2009)

The ligatures used in the murders were still wrapped around their necks when their bodies were found. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Bayard creates several clever ligatures to Dickens's original text ... when it evokes the original, it's with a sly twist." ❋ Unknown (2010)

"You're talking about absolute brutality – strangled with hands, strangled with ligatures, belts, shoestrings," Don Smyth, Goode's prosecution partner, recalled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was probably abducted, bound with ligatures, starved, and kept in a state of constant fear, at least according to the coroner. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Other signs include neck bruising and belts and other ligatures found attached to furniture. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ligatures are [cool] ❋ YeltsA KciR (2021)

I have a Rovner ligature and I like the way it holds my reed. The only problem is, the ligature is made with some [rubbery] stuff and it sticks to the [mouthpiece] like your butt on a [car seat] on a hot summer day! ❋ Pentozali (2012)

"I'm [soo] [screwed]... [I lost] my ligature..." -Victor ❋ Sesshy (2004)

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