Definition of Linotype machine

1. Noun. A typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal.

Exact synonyms: Linotype
Generic synonyms: Typesetting Machine
Language type: Trademark, Trademark

Lexicographical Neighbors of Linotype Machine

Linklater
Linköping
Linlithgowshire
Linnaea
Linnaea borealis americana
Linnaean
Linnaean nomenclature
Linnaeus
Linne
Linnea
Linnet
Linognathus
Linosyris vulgaris
Linotype
Linotype machine (current term)
Lintel
Linus
Linus Carl Pauling
Linus Pauling
Linux
Linz
Liomys
Liomys irroratus
Lion's Head
Lion City
Lion of Judah
Lionel
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Hampton

Literary usage of Linotype machine

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

1. Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge (1903)
"THE Linotype machine. AMONG recent inventions in connection with printing ... The Linotype machine. he reader to avail himself of some opportunity of seeing ..."

2. The Building of a Book: A Series of Practical Articles by Frederick Hills Hitchcock (1906)
"... BY THE Linotype machine « BY FREDERICK J. WARBURTON THE Linotype, pronounced by London Engineering "the most wonderful machine of the century," was not ..."

3. Mental Development and Education by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1921)
"The operation of a linotype machine requires a high degree of technical intelligence. (See exercise 21.) and might have great difficulty in formulating it ..."

4. A Course in Journalistic Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde (1922)
"Thursday NEWSPAPER STUDY The Linotype machine Little newspaper type matter is now set by hand, but the type is set, or rather made and set, on a linotype ..."

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