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Compositor synonyms

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keyboarder
One who keyboards; a typist.
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printer
(Computing) A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper. Also see plotter.
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typesetter
A machine for setting type
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typographer
One that sets written material into type; a compositor or printer.
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makeup man
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Linotype operator
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setter
Any of several breeds of long-haired hunting dogs originally trained to indicate the presence of game by crouching in a set position.
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lithographer (related)
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bookbinder (related)
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compo
A composite substance, as mortar or plaster
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Compositor Sentence Examples

  • In 1883 he was apprenticed to the trade of printer and compositor.

  • Having worked first as a mason and then as a compositor, he joined P. Dubois in the foundation of Le Globe which became in 1831 the official organ of the Saint-Simonian community, of which he became a prominent member.

  • He was an excellent compositor and pressman; his workmanship, clear impressions, black ink and comparative freedom from errata did much to get him the public printing in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the printing of the paper money a and other public matters in Delaware.

  • As a source for the text it is superseded by the printed edition, and if there is more than one, then by the latest printed edition, which has been revised in proof by the author, or, in certain cases, by his representative; and the task of the textual critic is restricted to the detection of "misprints," in other words, of errors which the compositor (the modern analogue to the scribe) has made in "setting up" the manuscript, and which have escaped the notice of the proof-reader and the author or his representative.

  • These errors arise from the default of the scribe or copyist, and, in the case of printed books, the compositor.'

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