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Linotype   /lˈɪnoʊtˌaɪp/   Listen
Linotype

noun
1.
A typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal.  Synonym: Linotype machine.






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"Linotype" Quotes from Famous Books



... an Irish meeting in Janesville the other night, and the press reported that "Garlic songs were sung." And we recall another report of a lecture on Yeats and the Garlic Revival. Just a moment, while we take a look at the linotype keyboard.... ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... industries: The work of the carpenter, mason, baker, stonecutter, electrician, plumber, machinist, toolmaker, engineer, miner, painter, typesetter, linotype operator, shoecutter and laster, tailor, garment maker, straw-hat maker, weaver, and ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... remarked, "for it is much more interesting to explain a process to a person to whom it is entirely new. Formerly the method of setting type for the press was a tedious undertaking and one very hard on the eyes; but now this work is all done, or is largely done, by linotype machines that place in correct order the desired letters, grouping them into words and carefully spacing and punctuating them. The linotype operator has before him a keyboard and as he presses the keys in succession, ...
— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett

... well. He carried to the shop quantities of German books and periodicals for their enlightenment. The shop's visitors included several young Americans, among them a newspaper artist, a violinist in a theatre orchestra, and a linotype expert. They all wore large black scarfs and called each other "comrade." Allen earnestly protested that he still believed in the American Idea, the Great Experiment; but if democracy should fail he was ready to take up socialism. He talked of his heroes; he said they all owed ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson

... reaching in the left bottom drawer of his scarred old desk for his little package of bread and cheese with an apple or a banana to top it off; he always ate that twenty-five minutes after midnight, just before the linotype men and the rest of the composing-room staff, who ate at the all-night restaurant around the corner, straggled back to ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse



Words linked to "Linotype" :   Linotype machine, typesetting machine, trademark



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