Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A machine employing a glycerin-coated layer of gelatin in order to make copies of typed or written material.
- transitive verb To copy by means of a hectograph.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To copy by means of a hectograph.
- noun A copying process in which the writing or drawing to be copied is made on smooth paper in aniline ink, and is then pressed upon a slab coated with gelatin, to which a part of the ink is thus transferred, and from which a number of duplicate impressions can be made; also, the special appliances, collectively, by means of which this is done. Also spelled
hektograph .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An old
printing process that involvestransfer of anoriginal , prepared with specialinks , to a pan ofgelatin or a gelatinpad pulled tight on a metalframe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy
- verb copy on a duplicator
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Examples
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My brother quickly decided the hectograph was a pain in the butt.
on writing by stephen king scribner 2000
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The hectograph is a device for making copies of written work.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education
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During the Rag’s first year, the print was purple—those issues were produced on a flat plate of jelly called a hectograph.
on writing by stephen king scribner 2000
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Some seventy issues were published, the first of which were duplicated by hectograph in 1919 – 1921.
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We were able to put together in two nights what had previously taken a week with the hectograph, and while the drum-press was messy, it did not look infected with a potentially fatal disease.
on writing by stephen king scribner 2000
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In 1903, at the age of sixteen, in an obscure Lithuanian shtetl, Sidney Hillman, the son of poor, Yiddish-speaking parents, joined the Bund, the Jewish socialist movement of Russia and Poland, taking as a first assignment the smuggling of his local group's hectograph from one hiding place to another.
From Rebel to Bureaucrat Howe, Irving 1991
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Reproducing the charts that follow on a hectograph or similar device may be useful.
Chapter 6 1980
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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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Lay a sheet of unglazed paper on the hectograph, rub it carefully, and take off at once.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Lay the written side of the sheet on the hectograph and rub it carefully over its whole surface with a soft cloth, so that every particle of the writing comes in contact with the surface of the hectograph.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education
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