Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A trademark for a machine that sets type on a metal slug, operated by a keyboard.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To set with a linotype machine.
  • noun A machine in which stereotyped lines (of words) are produced, for use in printing.
  • noun A machine in which stereotyped lines (of words) are produced, for use in printing. See cut in next column.
  • Composed with the linotype machine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing the keys of a keyboard like one on a typewriter, the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the entire line, or stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic.
  • noun The slug produced by the machine, or matter composed in such lines.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal

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Examples

  • Legend has it that the "Linotype" was so named when an editor, looking over Mergenthaler's shoulder at the first prototype, beheld the result and exclaimed, "A line of type!"

    unknown title 2009

  • Legend has it that the "Linotype" was so named when an editor, looking over Mergenthaler's shoulder at the first prototype, beheld the result and exclaimed, "A line of type!"

    unknown title 2009

  • Legend has it that the "Linotype" was so named when an editor, looking over Mergenthaler's shoulder at the first prototype, beheld the result and exclaimed, "A line of type!"

    unknown title 2009

  • Legend has it that the "Linotype" was so named when an editor, looking over Mergenthaler's shoulder at the first prototype, beheld the result and exclaimed, "A line of type!"

    unknown title 2009

  • Legend has it that the "Linotype" was so named when an editor, looking over Mergenthaler's shoulder at the first prototype, beheld the result and exclaimed, "A line of type!"

    unknown title 2009

  • Legend has it that the "Linotype" was so named when an editor, looking over Mergenthaler's shoulder at the first prototype, beheld the result and exclaimed, "A line of type!"

    unknown title 2009

  • Legend has it that the "Linotype" was so named when an editor, looking over Mergenthaler's shoulder at the first prototype, beheld the result and exclaimed, "A line of type!"

    unknown title 2009

  • The format would allow more typefaces to appear across the web and to be readable by both humans and search engines. announced with the release of Firefox 3.6, and with the advocacy of leading type foundries such as Linotype, Emigre, and Hoefler & Frere-Jones, the question of web fonts might be satisfactorily resolved in the near future. sIFR has been the go-to technology for web designers attempting to expand the Internet's typographical vocabulary without sacrificing machine readability.

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2009

  • Highlights included demonstration of how a Linotype machine works (magically) and a tour of the underground stacks where books and newspapers that instructors use to illustrate facets of the book-making process are stored.

    Preserving Book Culture, Promoting Book Collecting 2009

  • I soon graduated to my mom's IBM Selectric typewriter, and when I was at Lane Tech High School, I used the Linotype hot-lead-based mega-machines, and have the burn scars to prove it.

    Tracy Baim: Niche Media Survival in the Age of New Media Tracy Baim 2012

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