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Definition of Compositor
1. Noun. One who sets written material into type.
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
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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