Definition of Toner

1. Noun. A solution containing chemicals that can change the color of a photographic print.

Generic synonyms: Solution
Derivative terms: Tone, Tone

2. Noun. A black or colored powder used in a printer to develop a xerographic image.
Generic synonyms: Material, Stuff
Derivative terms: Tone

3. Noun. A lotion for cleansing the skin and contracting the pores.
Generic synonyms: Lotion

Definition of Toner

1. Noun. powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the text and images on the printed paper ¹

2. Noun. cosmetic lotion designed to cleanse the skin and shrink pores, usually used on the face ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Toner

1. one that tones [n -S] - See also: tones

Medical Definition of Toner

1. A solution used in toning. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toner

tone system
tone up
tonearm
tonearms
toned
toned down(p)
toneless
tonelessly
tonelessness
tonelessnesses
toneme
tonemes
tonemic
tonepad
tonepads
toner (current term)
toners
tones
tonetic
tonetically
tonetics
tonette
tonettes
tonewheel
tonewheels
tonewood
tonewoods
toney
tonfa
tong

Literary usage of Toner

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"See NOTT; PITCH toner, Joseph Meredith, American physician: b. ... Ann's Infant Asylum in Wa<hirc--ra and in 1871 the toner lectures under the ju»- pices of ..."

2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond, William Abbatt (1892)
"toner ON THE FALSE CHARGES OF UNFILIAL CONDUCT In a letter to the Washington Evening Star of October i, 1892, the celebrated scholar, Dr. JM toner, ..."

3. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... in the Time of hit Sickness in the toner. WITH ALLOWANCE. London, printed for R. Lee, without Bishopsgate, 1689. Folio, containing two pages. ..."

4. Deconstructing the Computer: Report of a Symposium by Dale Weldeau Jorgenson, Charles W. Wessner (2005)
"Dr. Taub began his explanation of the laser or dry-toner EP printer by describing a drum ... At a toning station, toner was thrown at the charge patterns, ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1876)
"Contributions to the Annals of Medical Progress nnd Medical Education in the United States before, and during the War of Independence. By Joseph M. toner, ..."

6. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (1807)
"... he encourages half the OJIK authors of Italy, and me amon<* the reft, to come to his table. There I toner, and get ..."

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