Definition of Compositor

1. Noun. One who sets written material into type.

Exact synonyms: Setter, Typesetter, Typographer
Generic synonyms: Pressman, Printer
Derivative terms: Compose, Typeset, Typography, Typography

Definition of Compositor

1. n. One who composes or sets in order.

Definition of Compositor

1. Noun. A person who sets type; a typesetter. ¹

2. Noun. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Compositor

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compositor

compositely
compositeness
composites
compositing
compositings
composition
composition board
composition book
composition over inheritance
compositional
compositional grammar
compositionality
compositionally
compositions
compositive
compositor (current term)
compositors
compositries
compositry
compossibility
compossible
compost
compost heap
compost pile
compostable
compostables
composted
composter
composters
composting

Literary usage of Compositor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"One by one, the compositor lifts and puts the letters of each word and sentence, ... 3. his line, the compositor has a task to perform in which the ..."

2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"Un mulet (printers' ) ; un compositeur mie de pain (an unskilled or clumsy workman ; mie de pain also •= a louse); un marron (a compositor working on his ..."

3. Wonderful Inventions: From the Mariner's Compass to the Electric Telegraph Cable by John Timbs (1868)
"The matter being composed, made into pages, tied up, and correctly laid down on the imposing-table, the compositor places over them a chase, or iron frame, ..."

4. The Literature of the Louisiana Territory by Alexander Nicolas De Menil (1904)
"... in response to the toast, " The compositor " gave the following description of the life of a " cub " printer of forty years ago: THE compositor. ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It is not only that the type is new, but that it is set up by a new compositor. And yet not exactly so, for ME. ..."

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