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Dingbat (other)
A dingbat is an ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament". Dingbat or dingbats might also refer to: * Dingbat, slang term referring to someone silly, notably applied to the TV character Edith Bunker by her husband * ''Dingbats'' (board game), a board game requiring players to solve rebuses, known in America as ''Whatzit?'' **dingbat, another word for rebus derived from the game * Dingbat (building), a type of cheap urban apartment building built between the 1950s and 1960s * Dingbat, a paddle ball in South Africa * Dingbat, a character created by Paul Terry * The characters in '' The Dingbat Family'', a comic strip drawn by George Herriman from 1910 to 1916 * Dingbat, a cartoon character who co-starred in '' Heathcliff and Dingbat'' * Dingbat, slang term, used as an alternate name for the Dignity Battalions * Dingbat, a placeholder name for a random or unknown object * Dingbats (Unicode block), a Unicode block * Ornamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingbat
In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames, (similar to box-drawing characters) or as a dinkus (section divider). Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks, used in bookbinding to order sections. In the computer industry, a Dingbat font was a computer font that has symbols and shapes that reused the code points designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. This practice was necessitated by the limited number of code points available in 20th century operating systems. Most modern fonts are based on Unicode, which has unique code points for dingbat glyphs. Examples Examples of characters included in Unicode (ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100 and others): Dingbats Unicode block Unicode provides code points for many commonly used dingbats, as listed below. Prior to widespread adoption of Unicode i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Bunker
Edith Bunker is a fictional character on the 1970s sitcom ''All in the Family'' (and occasionally ''Archie Bunker's Place''), played by Jean Stapleton. She is the wife of Archie Bunker, mother of Gloria Stivic, mother-in-law of Michael "Meathead" Stivic, and grandmother of Joey Stivic. Her cousin is Maude Findlay (Bea Arthur), one of Archie's nemeses. While Edith is typically a traditional and usually subservient wife, Jean Stapleton was a noted feminist. Series creator Norman Lear said on ''All Things Considered'' that the reason why Archie would always tell Edith to stifle herself was because Lear's father told his mother to "stifle". Character and background Edith Bunker is an undereducated but kind, cheery and loving woman. She is less politically opinionated than the rest of the family. Her main role is that of the matriarch who keeps her family intact. Archie once described Edith's father as a man "with no chin and a 'go funny' eye." A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingbats (board Game)
Dingbats is the name of a puzzle franchise devised by Paul Sellers in 1980 and first published as a board game in 1987. The game, for two or more people, involves solving rebuses: puzzles in which a common word or saying is hidden in a cryptic or otherwise unique arrangement of symbols. The puzzles are syndicated internationally in newspapers, under various names such as "WHATZIT?" in North America and "KATCH-ITS" in Australia. The name "Dingbats" is a registered trademark in the UK and European Union. ReviewsReviewin The Games Machine ''The Games Machine'' is a video game magazine that was published from 1987 until 1990 in the United Kingdom by Newsfield, which also published ''CRASH'', ''Zzap!64'', ''Amtix!'' and other magazines. History The magazine ran head to head with ... *'' Jeux & Stratégie'' #48https://archive.org/details/jeux-et-strategie-48/page/12/mode/2up References External links www.dingbats.net* Board games introduced in 2003 Party board games Puz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebus
A rebus () is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases. For example: the word "been" might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter "n". It was a favourite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames. For example, in its basic form, three salmon (fish) are used to denote the surname "Salmon". A more sophisticated example was the rebus of Bishop Walter Lyhart (d. 1472) of Norwich, consisting of a stag (or hart) lying down in a conventional representation of water. The composition alludes to the name, profession or personal characteristics of the bearer, and speaks to the beholder ''Non verbis, sed rebus'', which Latin expression signifies "not by words but by things" (''res, rei'' (f), a thing, object, matter; ''rebus'' being ablative plural). Rebuses within heraldry Rebuses are used extensively as a form of heraldic expre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingbat (building)
A dingbat is a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front parking. They remain widely in use today as “bastions of affordable shelter.” Mainly found in Southern California, but also in Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada and Vancouver, dingbats are known for their downmarket status and inexpensive rents. Some replaced more distinctive but less profitable building structures, such as single-family Victorian homes. Since the 1950s they have been the subject of aesthetic interest as examples of Mid-Century modern design and kitsch, since many dingbats have themed names and specialized trim. From a structural engineering perspective, the "tuck-under parking" arrangement may create a soft story if the residential levels are supported on slender columns without many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
