Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for making duplicate copies of letters, circulars, etc., written on sensitized paper with a pen of peculiar make, or with a typewriter.
- noun A peristyle of circular form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A circular group of
columns without a core. - noun A device used to make
copies of adrawing or writing, via smallpunctures made in theoutline - verb To use such a wheel and puncture device to make copies.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil
- noun a writing implement with a small toothed wheel that cuts small holes in a stencil
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Examples
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Inside the crowded office, a young man cranks the handle of a cyclostyle machine printing publicity pamphlets and he clicks his tongue as the paper jams again.
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You can have students make this, or you can produce it with a hectograph or cyclostyle or other copying device.
Chapter 4 1980
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I am black but comely at this moment: because the cyclostyle has blacked me.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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(Written with a cyclostyle.) "LIZE'S AVONTUREN IN HET WONDERLAND."
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903
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There is also a form written with a cyclostyle.] "DOUBLETS."
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903
knitandpurl commented on the word cyclostyle
"The woman is looking at a plan held in her left hand. It's just a sheet of paper, whose still visible creases attest to its having been folded in four, fixed by a paperclip to a thick cyclostyled volume — the terms of co-ownership relating to the flat this woman is about to visit."
-- Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos, p 4
June 1, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word cyclostyle
"... and then there were the five daily maps to prepare, copy on the cyclostyle (an early duplicating process using stencil and ink), and distribute to the main local railroads, newspapers, and hotels."
—David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 109
November 11, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word cyclostyle
JM has a fondness for cyclostyle generated newsletters - you never get too many of them.
November 16, 2009