Compositor
[kəm'pɒzɪtə] or [kəm'pɑzɪtɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who composes or sets in order.
(n.) One who sets type and arranges it for use.
Editor: Sweeney
Examples
- In 1886, however, a machine was placed in the office of the _New York Tribune_ whose performances astonished and alarmed the old-time compositor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Bradford had been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Meredith was no compositor, a poor pressman, and seldom sober. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The inventions of Printing Machines and stereotyping were strongly opposed at first by pressmen and compositors, as calculated to diminish the demand for their labour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The Mergenthaler machine is largely in use in the principal newspaper offices, with the result that a single operator does at least the work of four average compositors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He made a friend of one of the compositors of the _Detroit Free Press_, and got him to show him the proofs of the paper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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