Printer
['prɪntə] or ['prɪntɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a machine that prints.
(noun.) (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing.
(noun.) someone whose occupation is printing.
Edited by Adrian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a printer in your dreams, is a warning of poverty, if you neglect to practice economy and cultivate energy. For a woman to dream that her lover or associate is a printer, foretells she will fail to please her parents in the selection of a close friend.
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Examples
- Then the printer confided all his secrets to Faust, and the latter considered them with great care. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Carez, a printer of Toul, who, in 1791, endeavoured to obtain casts in lead from a page of type, by allowing it to drop on the fused metal when it was in a state of setting. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I had caused a printer's composing case to be set up with the idea that if we could get editors and publishers in to see it, we should show them the advantages of the electric light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The process consists in using the leaf for producing an impression as a printer uses type, the ink being green, and the pressure applied either by hand or with a press. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- At last came a time in the history of Europe when the door, at the push of the printer, began to open more rapidly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then I dressed myself as neat as I could, and went to Andrew Bradford, the printer's. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- So the young printer agreed to undertake this new commission. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The printer one could, of course, dismiss. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- So the printer and his good wife moved to the Zum Jungen, which was more like a castle than a tradesman’s dwelling-house. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Bradford, who had been the first printer in Pennsylvania, but had removed thence, in consequence of a quarrel with the governor, General Keith. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Known all over Europe as THE SMUDGE, from a printer's blot in the corner which exists in no other copy. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His note- book, blotted with the tears of sympathising humanity, lies open before us; one word, and it is in the printer's hands. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Edison came first to New York in 1868, with his early stock printer, which he tried unsuccessfully to sell. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now he dipped his printer’s dabber in it, and spread the ink over the wood. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The typewriter saves time, labor, postage and paper; it reduces the liability to mistakes, brings system into official correspondence, and delights the heart of the printer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When I missed understanding a word, there was no time to think what it was, so I made an illegible one to fill in, trusting to the printers to sense it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Before its introduction it was not possible to reproduce cheaply in printers’ ink shaded pictures like photographs, brush drawings, paintings, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But statistics do not show that as a whole there are fewer printers in the land. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To-day, about three o'clock, the proofs of this paper arrived from the printers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Among the printers here, said he, you will improve yourself, and when you return to America you will set up to greater advantage. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Printers get six dollars and a half a month, but I have heard of a foreman who gets thirteen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These two printers I found poorly qualified for their business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In New-York and Philadelphia the printers were, indeed, stationers, but they sold only paper, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Edison's inventive work on stock printers has left its mark upon the art as it exists at the present time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A soft, gelatinous composition, similar to that used in making printers’ rollers, is made and poured into shallow pans of the required size. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Pope and Edison invented a one-wire printer, and started a system of 'gold printers' devoted to the recording of gold quotations and sterling exchange only. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Calico printers are using half a pound of the acid to every 100 pounds of dressing starch, in order to entirely preclude the disagreeable odor arising after awhile from dry goods in store. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- There were printers in Italy by 1465, and Caxton set up his press in Westminster in 1477. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But come, friends, whether Quakers or cotton-printers, let us hold a peace-congress, and let out our venom quietly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Associated with Pope and Ashley, he followed up his work on telegraph printers with marked success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Wilma