philosophy

en-noun

philosophy (countable and uncountable, plural philosophies)

From Middle English philosophie, Old French philosophie, and their source, Latin philosophia, from Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía), from φίλος (phílos, “loving”) + σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”). By surface analysis, philo- + -sophy. Displaced native Old English ūþwitegung.

Although I prefer small pica. Or as its^([sic]) sometimes known, philosophy.
– Small pica, or philosophy, she said. It sounds like the title of a novel. With a girl heroine.

2010, Thomas Wharton, Salamander, Emblem Editions, →ISBN:

(printing, dated) Synonym of small pica (especially in French printing).


galley

galley (plural galleys or (obsolete) gallies)

galleys (plural)
gallies (obsolete plural)

From Middle English galeie, from Old French galee, from Latin galea, from Byzantine Greek γάλεα (gálea) of unknown origin, probably from Ancient Greek γαλέη (galéē), a kind of a small fish, from γαλεός (galeós, “dog-fish or small shark”). Doublet of galea.

It was very nerve-racking. When I was finally able to write the story, I wrote it at the typewriter and never reread it until I had to edit the typos on the printer's galleys for the publication of the book.

1976 April 26, Jil Clark, Julia Penelope, Susan Wolfe, “The Politics of Language”, in Gay Community News, page 8:

(printing) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.

(printing) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

게라쇄

printing: proof sheet from type on a galley


core

core (countable and uncountable, plural cores)

desc

Translingual: core eudicots, core Malvales

From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of an apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse.

unc

obscure and uncertain

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

сърцеви́на

something that produces a hollow space in a casting

particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:

(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.


keep up

en-verb

keep up (third-person singular simple present keeps up, present participle keeping up, simple past and past participle kept up)

keeps up (present singular third-person)
keeping up (participle present)
kept up (participle past)
kept up (past)

From Middle English kepen up (“to perpetuate, maintain, preserve”), equivalent to keep + up.

inh

(obsolete, printing) To use capital letters as much as reasonable.


landscape

en-noun

landscape (countable and uncountable, plural landscapes)

From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap (“region, district, tract of land”), equivalent to land + -ship; in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, province, landscape”), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (“region”), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi (“region”). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (“landscape”), West Frisian lânskip (“landscape”), Low German landschop (“landscape, district”), German Landschaft (“landscape, countryside, scenery”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”).

cog

(computing, printing, uncountable) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides


paragon

From Anglo-Norman paragone, peragone, Middle French paragon, from Italian paragone (“comparison”) or Spanish parangón, from Byzantine Greek παρακόνη (parakónē, “whetstone”), from Ancient Greek παρακονάω (parakonáō, “I sharpen, whet”), from παρά (pará) + ἀκόνη (akónē, “whetstone”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”)).

affix

(typography, printing, dated) The size of type between great primer and double pica, standardized as 20-point.


pearl

en-noun

pearl (countable and uncountable, plural pearls)

Horace
Jean Jannon
New Testament
Vergil
en:pearl
en:pearl (disambiguation)
en:pearl (typography)

From Middle English perle, from Old French perle of uncertain etymology. Probably via unattested Medieval Latin *pernula, from Latin perna (“haunch; a marine bivalve shaped like a leg of lamb”) but also derived from Medieval Latin perla, from Latin perula (“little bag”). Its typographic use follows the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time. Its surfing use derives from the supposed resemblance to pearl diving.

der

(uncountable, typography, printing, dated) The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.


revise

Borrowed from Middle French réviser, from Latin revīsō, from re- + vīsō (“examine”), frequentative of videō (“see”).

The question is, not whether the revises of the Catalogue, which I was obliged to circulate prematurely, were faultless, but whether the alterations which I was desired to make would not render them worse.

1837, Anthony Panizzi, A letter to His Royal Highness the President of the Royal Society, on the New Catalogue of the Library of that Institution Now in the Press, page 30:

1869 August 16, Anthony Trollope, letter to W. H. Bradbury, 1983, N. John Hall (editor), The Letters of Anthony Trollope, Volume 1: 1835-1870, page 479,
Looking back at the revises of Bullhampton it seems to me that the printers have fallen into some error as to the numbering of Chapters XXXIV—XXXV—XXXVI—which should have been XXXV—XXXVI— and XXXVII.

1917, United States Congress: House Committee on Rules, Alleged Divulgence of President′s note to Belligerent Powers, page 1440,
I still held the revises; kept them until the type was made up and went to the press, for final page proof.

[…]until I had corrected the proofs of the novel and seen the revises, so that the text was irrevocably fixed, before beginning the screenplay.

1997, David Lodge, The Practice of Writing, published 2011, page 219:

(printing) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.


scabby

en-adj

scabby (comparative scabbier, superlative scabbiest)

scabbier (comparative)
scabbiest (superlative)

From Middle English scabby, scabbie, equivalent to scab + -y. Doublet of shabby.

(printing) Having a blotched, uneven appearance.


slice

From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīzan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.

der

(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.


stack

en-verb

stack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)

stacks (present singular third-person)
stacking (participle present)
stacked (participle past)
stacked (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-stack.wav

From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”).
The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra. Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

натрупвам

To place objects or material in the form of a stack

(printing) To have excessive ink transfer.


vignette

First attested in 1751. From French vignette, diminutive of vigne (“vine”), from Latin vīnea, from vīnum (“wine”). Replaced earlier Middle English vynet.

The centrality of this particular trope can been seen in the vignette adorning the opening page of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonnée des sciences, des arts et des métiers (1751–1752).

2011, William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, Emma Wilson, The Cambridge History of French Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 420:

(printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.

винетка

decorative design at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book


impression

en-noun

impression (countable and uncountable, plural impressions)

From Old French impression, from Latin impressio.

(printing) set of copies of a publication printed at one time having the same content, layout, pagination, etc.


cuadrado

→ Tagalog: kuwadrado


text

text (countable and uncountable, plural texts)

From Middle English text, from Old French texte (“text”), from Medieval Latin textus (“the Scriptures, text, treatise”), from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“I weave”). Cognate to English texture.

der

German text

(printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.


cancel

en-verb

cancel (third-person singular simple present cancels, present participle cancelling or (US) canceling, simple past and past participle cancelled or (US) canceled)

cancels (present singular third-person)
cancelling (participle present)
canceling (US participle present)
cancelled (participle past)
cancelled (past)
canceled (US participle past)
canceled (US past)

→ German: canceln

→ Gulf Arabic: كنسل (kansal)

→ Welsh: canslo

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).

der

kanzellieren (obsolete or translationese)

(printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.


cancel

(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.


fist

From Middle English fist, from Old English fȳst (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fääste (“fist”), West Frisian fûst (“fist”), Dutch vuist (“fist”), German Low German Fuust (“fist”), German Faust (“fist”). More at five.


throw up

en-verb

throw up (third-person singular simple present throws up, present participle throwing up, simple past threw up, past participle thrown up)

throws up (present singular third-person)
throwing up (participle present)
threw up (past)
thrown up (participle past)

The vomit sense is a clipping of throw up one's accounts (18th century), from earlier idiom cast up one's accounts (15th century).

(obsolete, transitive, printing) To give special prominence to a line or lines.


shoulder

From Middle English schuldre, sholder, shulder, schulder, from Old English sculdra, sculdor (“shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *skuldru (“shoulder”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), see shield. Cognate with Old Frisian skuldere (“shoulder”) (West Frisian skouder (“shoulder”)), Middle Low German scholder (“shoulder”), Low German Schuller (“shoulder”), Dutch schouder (“shoulder”), German Schulter (“shoulder”).

inh

you can't put an old head on young shoulders

(printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.


hickey

(printing) A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.

pecka

Years ago, there were internal company standards for dark center (ink color) hickeys and for white voids in solids/type.

2008, American Printer, volume 125, page 63:

It is generally believed, by those who study such things, that serif typefaces are easier to read when reading a lot of words. The hickeys (serifs) on each letter tend to push our eye toward the next letter.

2018, Paul W. Ross, Revival: The Handbook of Software for Engineers and Scientists:

(printing, informal) A serif or other ornamentation on type.


post

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .

inh+

(paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.


screen

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

der

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

(printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.


letterpress

en-noun

letterpress (countable and uncountable, plural letterpresses)

(printing) The printing process in which ink is applied to the top surface of a raised image area, which is then pressed against paper to transfer the image.

(printing) Printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.

(printing) A machine used for such printing.


back up

en-verb

back up (third-person singular simple present backs up, present participle backing up, simple past and past participle backed up)

backs up (present singular third-person)
backing up (participle present)
backed up (participle past)
backed up (past)

(obsolete, printing) To run a printing press in reverse.


composition

en-noun

composition (countable and uncountable, plural compositions)

→ Korean: 컴포지션 (keompojisyeon)

/ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/

From Middle English composicioun, borrowed from Old French composicion, from Latin compositiō, compositiōnem.

hyvitys

agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation


composition

→ Korean: 콩포지숑 (kongpojisyong) (rare)

→ Turkish: kompozisyon

Inherited from Old French composicion, borrowed from Latin compositiōnem.


clicker

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(printing, obsolete) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.

(printing, historical) An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.


shank

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).

(printing, dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.


squabble

en-verb

squabble (third-person singular simple present squabbles, present participle squabbling, simple past and past participle squabbled)

squabbles (present singular third-person)
squabbling (participle present)
squabbled (participle past)
squabbled (past)

1600s, probably of North Germanic origin and ultimately imitative.
Related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel (“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”), Norwegian dialectal skvabba (“to prattle”), German dialectal schwabbeln (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal skvappa (“to chide, scold”, literally “make a splash”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

to squabble type

(transitive, printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.


meridian

The noun is derived from Late Middle English meridian, meridien (“midday, noon; position of the sun at noon; the south; longitude of a place; (astronomy) celestial meridian”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman meridien (“midday”), Middle French meridien (“midday; the south; terrestrial meridian; (astronomy) celestial meridian”) (modern French méridien), and Old French meridiane, meridiiene, and from their etymon Latin merīdiānum (“midday; position of the sun at noon; the south”), a noun use of the neuter form of merīdiānus (“relating to midday; southern”); see further at etymology 1.
Sense 1.1 (“celestial meridian”) is ultimately modelled after Latin merīdiāna līnea (“meridian line”). Sense 5.2 (“midday rest; siesta”) is modelled after Late Latin meridiana (“midday; midday rest”), probably short for Latin merīdiāna hōra (“midday time”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

nb...

meridene, meridiane, meridien, meridyan, meridyen, merydien, merydyen,

cog

(US, printing, dated) The size of type between double great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.


signature

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).

nc

(printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.

сигнату́ра

printing: four or multiple of four pages folded to form a section of a book


stereotype

en-noun

stereotype (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypes)

Borrowed from French stéréotype, equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817, the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion.

(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.


stereotype

en-verb

stereotype (third-person singular simple present stereotypes, present participle stereotyping, simple past and past participle stereotyped)

stereotypes (present singular third-person)
stereotyping (participle present)
stereotyped (participle past)
stereotyped (past)

to stereotype the Bible

(transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

(transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.


monotone

en-adj

monotone (comparative more monotone, superlative most monotone)

more monotone (comparative)
most monotone (superlative)

From the post-Classical Latin monotonus (“unvarying in tone”) or its etymon the Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “steady”, “unwavering”); compare cognate adjectives, namely the French monotone, the German monoton, the Italian monotono, and the Spanish monótono, as well as the slightly earlier English noun monotony and adjective monotonical.


zetten

zetten (infinitive)
zetten (gerund neuter)
zet (first-person present singular)
zette (first-person past singular)
zet (present second-person singular)
zette (past second-person singular)
zet (formal present second-person singular)
zette (formal past second-person singular)
zet (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
zet (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
zette (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
zette (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
zet (present singular third-person)
zette (past singular third-person)
zetten (plural present)
zetten (past plural)
zette (archaic present singular subjunctive)
zette (archaic past singular subjunctive)
zetten (archaic plural present subjunctive)
zetten (archaic past plural subjunctive)
zet (imperative present singular)
zet (archaic imperative plural present)
zettend (participle present)
gezet (participle past)

Afrikaans: sit

Berbice Creole Dutch: sete

Negerhollands: set, sit

From Middle Dutch setten, from Old Dutch setten, from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti. A causative verb to zitten (“to sit”).


forma

pl-noun

forma f (diminutive foremka, related adjective formowy)

foremka (diminutive)
formowy (adjective)
forma (nominative singular)
formy (nominative plural)
formy (genitive singular)
form (genitive plural)
formie (dative singular)
formom (dative plural)
formę (accusative singular)
formy (accusative plural)
formą (instrumental singular)
formami (instrumental plural)
formie (locative singular)
formach (locative plural)
formo (singular vocative)
formy (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: fòrma

(printing) template (set of printing elements prepared for printing)


forma

head

forma (definite accusative formayı, plural formalar)

formayı (accusative definite)
formalar (plural)
forma (nominative singular)
formalar (nominative plural)
formayı (accusative definite singular)
formaları (accusative definite plural)
formaya (dative singular)
formalara (dative plural)
formada (locative singular)
formalarda (locative plural)
formadan (ablative singular)
formalardan (ablative plural)
formanın (genitive singular)
formaların (genitive plural)
formam (first-person nominative singular)
formalarım (first-person nominative singular)
forman (nominative second-person singular)
formaların (nominative second-person singular)
forması (nominative singular third-person)
formaları (nominative singular third-person)
formamız (first-person nominative plural)
formalarımız (first-person nominative plural)
formanız (nominative plural second-person)
formalarınız (nominative plural second-person)
formaları (nominative plural third-person)
formamı (accusative definite first-person singular)
formalarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
formanı (accusative definite second-person singular)
formalarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
formasını (accusative definite singular third-person)
formalarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
formamızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
formalarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
formanızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
formalarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
formalarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
formama (dative first-person singular)
formalarıma (dative first-person singular)
formana (dative second-person singular)
formalarına (dative second-person singular)
formasına (dative singular third-person)
formalarına (dative singular third-person)
formamıza (dative first-person plural)
formalarımıza (dative first-person plural)
formanıza (dative plural second-person)
formalarınıza (dative plural second-person)
formalarına (dative plural third-person)
formamda (first-person locative singular)
formalarımda (first-person locative singular)
formanda (locative second-person singular)
formalarında (locative second-person singular)
formasında (locative singular third-person)
formalarında (locative singular third-person)
formamızda (first-person locative plural)
formalarımızda (first-person locative plural)
formanızda (locative plural second-person)
formalarınızda (locative plural second-person)
formalarında (locative plural third-person)
formamdan (ablative first-person singular)
formalarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
formandan (ablative second-person singular)
formalarından (ablative second-person singular)
formasından (ablative singular third-person)
formalarından (ablative singular third-person)
formamızdan (ablative first-person plural)
formalarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
formanızdan (ablative plural second-person)
formalarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
formalarından (ablative plural third-person)
formamın (first-person genitive singular)
formalarımın (first-person genitive singular)
formanın (genitive second-person singular)
formalarının (genitive second-person singular)
formasının (genitive singular third-person)
formalarının (genitive singular third-person)
formamızın (first-person genitive plural)
formalarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
formanızın (genitive plural second-person)
formalarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
formalarının (genitive plural third-person)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فورمه (forma, “a compositor's form”), from Italian forma or French format.

inh+

(printing) A 16-page section of a book printed on a single sheet of paper; a signature.


skip

en-verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

skips (present singular third-person)
skipping (participle present)
skipped (participle past)
skipped (past)

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

der

(printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.


gods

So called from the idea of gods (deities) reigning from on high.

(printing, historical) The quadrats used by printers in throwing on the imposing stone, similar to the movement in casting dice.


gutter

Sranan Tongo: gotro

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).

(printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.


gallows

en-noun

gallows (plural gallows or (rare) gallowses)

gallows (plural)
gallowses (plural rare)

From Middle English galwes, galewes, plural of galwe, galowe, from Old English galga, gealga, from Proto-West Germanic *galgō, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). The plural construction probably refers to the vertical and horizontal beams.
Compare West Frisian galge, Dutch galg, German Galgen, Danish galge, Icelandic gálgi.
For the pronunciation /ˈɡæləs/, compare bellows, bodice.

(printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.


distribute

en-verb

distribute (third-person singular simple present distributes, present participle distributing, simple past and past participle distributed)

distributes (present singular third-person)
distributing (participle present)
distributed (participle past)
distributed (past)
distribute (infinitive)

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Latin distributus, past participle of distribuere (“to divide, distribute”), from dis- (“apart”) + tribuere (“to give, impart”); see tribute.

(printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.

(printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.


octavo

From Latin octavo. Doublet of octave, oitava, and ochava.

(paper, printing) A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.

He was also much of a politician; too much, perhaps, for his station. There fell lately into my hands, in London, a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets, relating to public affairs, from 1641 to 1717; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering, but there still remain eight volumes in folio, and twenty-four in quarto and in octavo.

1909 [1793], Benjamin Franklin, edited by Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (The Harvard Classics; 1), U.S.A.: P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, published 1937, page 8:


quad

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

(typography, obsolete) Abbreviation of quadrat.

(printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.


out of sorts

en-adj

out of sorts (comparative more out of sorts, superlative most out of sorts)

more out of sorts (comparative)
most out of sorts (superlative)

Comes from printing terminology where "sort" means a metal type for printing a particular letter.

(printing, dated) With some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font.


lineo

Borrowed from English line, French ligne, German Linie, Italian linea, Russian ли́ния (línija), Spanish línea. Compare Esperanto linio.

io-bor

(genealogy, geometry, military, printing, telegraphy, writing, etc.) line


knock up

en-verb

knock up (third-person singular simple present knocks up, present participle knocking up, simple past and past participle knocked up)

knocks up (present singular third-person)
knocking up (participle present)
knocked up (participle past)
knocked up (past)

(obsolete, printing) To straighten up a stack of paper.


engraving

en-noun

engraving (countable and uncountable, plural engravings)

(printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.


bump

en-verb

bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)

bumps (present singular third-person)
bumping (participle present)
bumped (participle past)
bumped (past)
Lighter (canonical)
1917-1919: An Historical Glossary” (canonical)
volume 47 (canonical)
number 1 (canonical)
page 24 (canonical)

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

onom

imitative

cog

(printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.


get in

en-verb

get in (third-person singular simple present gets in, present participle getting in, simple past got in, past participle (UK) got in or (US) gotten in)

gets in (present singular third-person)
getting in (participle present)
got in (past)
got in (UK participle past)
gotten in (US participle past)

(obsolete, printing, of a matter) To produce fewer copies than anticipated.


petit

From French petit (“brevier”) directly or via German Petit (“brevier”).

(printing, dated, French and German contexts) Synonym of brevier.


portrait

en-noun

portrait (countable and uncountable, plural portraits)

From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin prōtrahō.

(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

κατακόρυφος προσανατολισμός

εκτύπωσης-χαρτιού


portrait

→ Bulgarian: портрет (portret)

→ Czech: portrét

desctree

→ Dutch: portret
Afrikaans: portret
Petjo: potrèt
→ Caribbean Javanese: potrèg, potrèt
→ Indonesian: potret
→ Papiamentu: portrèt, pòtrèt, pòrtrèt, portret

→ German: Porträt, Portrait (rarer since ca. 1900, now nonstandard outside Switzerland)
→ Russian: портрет (portret)
→ Serbo-Croatian: portret / портрет
→ Ukrainian: портрет (portret)

desc

→ Greek: πορτρέτο (portréto), πορτραίτο n (portraíto)

→ Norwegian: portrett

→ Polish: portret

→ Romanian: portret

→ Slovene: portret

→ Swedish: porträtt
→ Finnish: potretti

→ Turkish: portre


slur

en-verb

slur (third-person singular simple present slurs, present participle slurring, simple past and past participle slurred)

slurs (present singular third-person)
slurring (participle present)
slurred (participle past)
slurred (past)

From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”).
* (an extremely offensive term): Influenced by various compounds of sense 1 such as racial slur, ethnic slur, etc.

cog

(printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

dissimuler

printing: to blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle


bodkin

From Middle English boydekin (“dagger”), apparently from *boyde, *boide (of unknown [Celtic?] origin) + -kin. Cognate with Scots botkin, boitkin, boikin (“bodkin”).

(printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters (e.g. letters) from a column or page in making corrections.


lay down

en-verb

lay down (third-person singular simple present lays down, present participle laying down, simple past and past participle laid down)

lays down (present singular third-person)
laying down (participle present)
laid down (participle past)
laid down (past)

From Middle English leyen doun, leien doun (“to lay down”), equivalent to lay + down.

(obsolete, printing) To place a sheet in a printing press for printing.


set up

set up (third-person singular simple present sets up, present participle setting up, simple past and past participle set up)

sets up (present singular third-person)
setting up (participle present)
set up (participle past)
set up (past)

(obsolete, printing) Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)


branch out

branch out (third-person singular simple present branches out, present participle branching out, simple past and past participle branched out)

branches out (present singular third-person)
branching out (participle present)
branched out (participle past)
branched out (past)

(obsolete, printing) To white out or expand the whitespace around the title or other words, lines, etc. in a document.


bearer

desc

→ Bengali: বেয়ারা (beẏara), বেহারা (behara) (borrowed from sense 4)

From Middle English berer, berere, from Old English berere (attested in Old English wæterberere (“waterbearer”)), equivalent to bear + -er.

(printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.

(printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.


quoin

Next fit the quoins, using the “persuader” to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all around.

1898, John Southward, Modern Printing: A Handbook of the Principles and Practice of Typography and the Auxiliary Arts:

(printing, historical) A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.


slick

From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”),
from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).

cog

The project was delayed because the slick had not been delivered to the printer.

(printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.


persuader

(printing, historical, colloquial) A tool used to pack the type into the form.


diamant

nl-noun

diamant m (plural diamanten, diminutive diamantje n)

diamanten (plural)
diamantje (diminutive neuter)

(diamond):

Afrikaans: diamant

→ Sranan Tongo: dyamanti

→ Saramaccan: djamátisítónu

(font size):

→ English: diamond

→ French: diamant

→ German: Diamant

→ Italian: diamante

→ Spanish: diamante

From Middle Dutch diamant, from Old French diamant, from Medieval Latin and Late Latin diamas, variant of Latin adamas.
The typographic use derives from Dirck Voskens, who first cut it around 1700 and presumably named it by analogy with the larger parel.

(uncountable, printing, dated) the size of type between kwart cicero (excelsior) and parel, equivalent to English brilliant and standardized as 4 point


diamant

Borrowed from Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700, presumably naming it by analogy with the larger perle.

(uncountable, printing, dated) excelsior (a small size of type, standardized as 3 point)


trim

en-noun

trim (countable and uncountable, plural trims)

From Middle English trimen, trymen, trümen, from Old English trymman (“to make firm; strengthen”), from Proto-West Germanic *trummjan, from Proto-Germanic *trumjaną (“to make fast; strengthen”), from Proto-Germanic *trumaz (“firm; strong; sound”).

varustelutaso

the manner in which something is equipped

(printing, binding, publishing) Any of the three cut edges of book pages, trimmed with a shear after binding.


D

en-noun

D (countable and uncountable, plural Ds)

(printing) Abbreviation of duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association.


Diamant

Diamant (genitive)
Diamant (nominative singular)
Diamant (genitive singular)
Diamant (dative singular)
Diamant (accusative singular)

Borrowed from Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700, presumably naming it by analogy with the larger Perl.

(uncountable, printing, dated) A small size of type, standardized as 4 point.


Ionic

From Ancient Greek ἰωνικός (iōnikós, “related to Ionians”).

uder

(printing, dated) Of or relating to a kind of heavy-faced type.


K

Abbreviations.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of counter, prefix counter-, sequence contr.

ng

prefix <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">counter-</i>, sequence contr.


Latin

en-proper noun

Latin (countable and uncountable, plural Latins)

From Middle English Latin, Latyn, from Old English Lǣden, from Vulgar Latin *ladinum (“Latin”) and Old French latin (“Latin”); all from Latin Latinus (“belonging to Latium”). Later influenced in form by the Latin word. Compare Dutch Latijn (“Latin”), German Latein (“Latin”), Swedish Latin (“Latin”).

(printing) The nonsense placeholder text (often based on real Latin) used in greeking.


O

en-noun

O (countable and uncountable, plural Os)

American Library Association
w:American Library Association

(printing) American Library Association abbreviation of octavo, a book size (20-25 cm).


Roman

From Old French Romain, from Latin Rōmānus. In reference to the Byzantine Empire, via the Byzantine Greek endonym Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos). By surface analysis, Rome + -an. Doublet of Romano.

(printing, countable) A single letter or character in Roman type.


Set

de-noun

Set n (strong, genitive Sets or Set, plural Sets)

Sets (genitive)
Set (genitive)
Sets (plural)

de:Anzahl de:Filmset de:Kategorientheorie de:Menge_(Datenstruktur) de:Set_und_Setting de:Tischset

(printing) the spacing between letters in type


Stern

Stern m (strong, genitive Sternes or Sterns, plural Sterne, diminutive Sternchen n or Sternlein n)

Sternes (genitive)
Sterns (genitive)
Sterne (plural)
Sternchen (diminutive neuter)
Sternlein (diminutive neuter)
Stern (nominative singular)
Sterne (definite nominative plural)
Sternes (genitive singular)
Sterns (genitive singular)
Sterne (definite genitive plural)
Stern (dative singular)
Sterne (dative singular)
Sternen (dative definite plural)
Stern (accusative singular)
Sterne (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German stërne, from Old High German sterno, from Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, *sternô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
See also Dutch ster (“star”), Old English steorra (“star”) (Modern English star), Danish stjerne (“star”), Swedish stjärna (“star”), Icelandic stjarna (“star”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō); also Latin stēlla (“star”), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”). Doublet of Aster and Star.

Bei der Deklaration eines Zeigers kann der Stern (Asterisk) sowohl beim Namen der Variablen (int *zahl) als auch beim Datentyp (int* zahl) stehen.

2007, Klaus M. Rodewig, Amin Negm-Awad, Objective-C und Cocoa: Programmieren unter Apple Mac OS X, 2nd edition, page 83:

(printing, often Sternchen) an asterisk (*)


Vignette

Vignette f (genitive Vignette, plural Vignetten)

Vignette (genitive)
Vignetten (plural)
Vignette (nominative singular)
Vignetten (definite nominative plural)
Vignette (genitive singular)
Vignetten (definite genitive plural)
Vignette (dative singular)
Vignetten (dative definite plural)
Vignette (accusative singular)
Vignetten (accusative definite plural)

→ Hungarian: vignetta

(printing or literature or photography or computer graphics) vignette


fondu

en-noun

fondu (countable and uncountable, plural fondus)

Borrowed from French fondu (“melted”). Compare fondue.

(printing) The graded shift from one color into another.


CMYK

(computing, printing) Initialism of cyan, magenta, yellow, key: the colour model used in colour printing.


kicker

In a printing machine, the combination of a kicker mechanism for displacing a newspaper […]

1931, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 490:

(printing) A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.


takeoff

takeoff (countable and uncountable, plural takeoffs)

(printing, UK, historical) The removal of sheets from the press.


Schiff

de-noun

Schiff n (strong, genitive Schiffes or Schiffs, plural Schiffe, diminutive Schiffchen n or Schifflein n)

Schiffes (genitive)
Schiffs (genitive)
Schiffe (plural)
Schiffchen (diminutive neuter)
Schifflein (diminutive neuter)
Schiff (nominative singular)
Schiffe (definite nominative plural)
Schiffes (genitive singular)
Schiffs (genitive singular)
Schiffe (definite genitive plural)
Schiff (dative singular)
Schiffe (dative singular)
Schiffen (dative definite plural)
Schiff (accusative singular)
Schiffe (accusative definite plural)

→ Czech: šíf

From Middle High German schif, from Old High German skif (“ship, barrel, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship, hollow object”). The sense “nave” is a semantic loan from Latin nāvis.
Cognate with Low German Schipp, West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, Yiddish שיף (shif), English ship, Danish skib, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian škibît (“to cut, lop”).


webbing

en-noun

webbing (countable and uncountable, plural webbings)

(printing) Tapes conducting webs of paper in a printing machine.


recto

verso

antonym(s) of “front side of a flat object”

reverso

antonym(s) of “right-hand page of a book”

Borrowed from Latin rēctō foliō (“on the right leaf, on the right page”), the ablative case of the Latin rēctus (“right”). Compare versus (“turned”).

The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal.

(printing) The right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number.


verso

recto

antonym(s) of “back side of a flat object”

recto

antonym(s) of “left-hand page of a book”

From Latin in versō foliō (“on the turned leaf, on the turned page”), the ablative case of the Latin versus (“turned, changed”) from the perfect passive participle of vertō (“turn”). Compare rēctus (“right”).

der

The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal;

(printing) The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number.

лява страница

на отворена книга


verso

Borrowed from Latin versō, ablative of versus.


verso

Borrowed from Latin versus. Compare the inherited Old Spanish viesso.


Klischee

de-noun

Klischee n (strong, genitive Klischees, plural Klischees)

Klischees (genitive)
Klischees (plural)
Klischee (nominative singular)
Klischees (definite nominative plural)
Klischees (genitive singular)
Klischees (definite genitive plural)
Klischee (dative singular)
Klischees (dative definite plural)
Klischee (accusative singular)
Klischees (accusative definite plural)


Norse

Partly from Dutch Noorsch (now Noors (“Norwegian”)), from noordsch (“northern; nordic”); and partly from Danish norsk (“Norwegian”). Both equivalent to north + -ish. Doublet of Norsk.

(US printing, rare, dated) A size of type between Saxon and excelsior, 2+¹⁄₂-point type.


haus

is-noun

haus m (genitive singular hauss, nominative plural hausar)

hauss (genitive singular)
hausar (nominative plural)
haus (indefinite nominative singular)
hausinn (definite nominative singular)
hausar (indefinite nominative plural)
hausarnir (definite nominative plural)
haus (accusative indefinite singular)
hausinn (accusative definite singular)
hausa (accusative indefinite plural)
hausana (accusative definite plural)
haus (dative indefinite singular)
hausnum (dative definite singular)
hausum (dative indefinite plural)
hausunum (dative definite plural)
hauss (genitive indefinite singular)
haussins (definite genitive singular)
hausa (genitive indefinite plural)
hausanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse hauss, from Proto-Germanic *hausaz, cognate with Lithuanian kiáušė (“skul”), Latvian kaûss (“cup”); from the same basic Proto-Indo-European root as hodd (“treasure”), hosa (“tube”) and hús (“house”).

fá eitthvað í hausinn aftur

to have something boomerang on one, get something straight back

(printing) header (text area at the top of a page)


Fahne

de-noun

Fahne f (genitive Fahne, plural Fahnen, diminutive Fähnchen n or Fähnlein n)

Fahne (genitive)
Fahnen (plural)
Fähnchen (diminutive neuter)
Fähnlein (diminutive neuter)
Fahne (nominative singular)
Fahnen (definite nominative plural)
Fahne (genitive singular)
Fahnen (definite genitive plural)
Fahne (dative singular)
Fahnen (dative definite plural)
Fahne (accusative singular)
Fahnen (accusative definite plural)

→ Silesian: fana

From Middle High German van(e) m, from Old High German fano, from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô (“cloth, flag”), from Proto-Indo-European *pān- (“fabric”).
The shift to the feminine gender began in cognate Middle Low German vāne and, through Central German, established itself in the written language by the end of the 17th century.


Zwiebelfisch

Zwiebelfisch m (strong, genitive Zwiebelfisches or Zwiebelfischs, plural Zwiebelfische)

Zwiebelfisches (genitive)
Zwiebelfischs (genitive)
Zwiebelfische (plural)
Zwiebelfisch (nominative singular)
Zwiebelfische (definite nominative plural)
Zwiebelfisches (genitive singular)
Zwiebelfischs (genitive singular)
Zwiebelfische (definite genitive plural)
Zwiebelfisch (dative singular)
Zwiebelfische (dative singular)
Zwiebelfischen (dative definite plural)
Zwiebelfisch (accusative singular)
Zwiebelfische (accusative definite plural)

Zwiebel (“onion”) + Fisch (“fish”), originally "fish of low quality", then "low quality, clutter".

(printing) A character that is by mistake printed in a font different from the rest.


planer

the compositor "planes down" the "forme," to make a the surface of the type stand flat and even, by blows of the mallet upon a piece of smooth wood laid upon the pages, called, from its use, "a planer;" and it is then ready for the pressman

1825, Thomas Curson Hansard, Typographia, an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing:

(archaic, printing) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.


run out

en-verb

run out (third-person singular simple present runs out, present participle running out, simple past ran out, past participle run out)

runs out (present singular third-person)
running out (participle present)
ran out (past)
run out (participle past)

(obsolete, printing) To fill a line with quadrats or full points.


äpärä

äpärä (nominative singular)
äpärät (nominative plural)
äpärä (accusative nominative singular)
äpärät (accusative nominative plural)
äpärän (accusative genitive singular)
äpärät (accusative genitive plural)
äpärän (genitive singular)
äpärien (genitive plural)
äpäröiden (genitive plural)
äpäröitten (genitive plural)
äpäröjen (genitive plural rare)
äpäräin (genitive plural rare)
äpärää (partitive singular)
äpäriä (partitive plural)
äpäröitä (partitive plural)
äpäröjä (partitive plural rare)
äpärässä (inessive singular)
äpäröissä (inessive plural)
äpärissä (inessive plural)
äpärästä (elative singular)
äpäröistä (elative plural)
äpäristä (elative plural)
äpärään (illative singular)
äpäriin (illative plural)
äpäröihin (illative plural)
äpärällä (adessive singular)
äpäröillä (adessive plural)
äpärillä (adessive plural)
äpärältä (ablative singular)
äpäröiltä (ablative plural)
äpäriltä (ablative plural)
äpärälle (allative singular)
äpäröille (allative plural)
äpärille (allative plural)
äpäränä (essive singular)
äpäröinä (essive plural)
äpärinä (essive plural)
äpäräksi (singular translative)
äpäröiksi (plural translative)
äpäriksi (plural translative)
äpärättä (abessive singular)
äpäröittä (abessive plural)
äpärittä (abessive plural)
äpäröin (instructive plural)
äpärin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
äpäräni (nominative singular)
äpäräni (nominative plural)
äpäräni (accusative nominative singular)
äpäräni (accusative nominative plural)
äpäräni (accusative genitive singular)
äpäräni (accusative genitive plural)
äpäräni (genitive singular)
äpärieni (genitive plural)
äpäröideni (genitive plural)
äpäröitteni (genitive plural)
äpäröjeni (genitive plural rare)
äpäräini (genitive plural rare)
äpärääni (partitive singular)
äpäriäni (partitive plural)
äpäröitäni (partitive plural)
äpäröjäni (partitive plural rare)
äpärässäni (inessive singular)
äpäröissäni (inessive plural)
äpärissäni (inessive plural)
äpärästäni (elative singular)
äpäröistäni (elative plural)
äpäristäni (elative plural)
äpärääni (illative singular)
äpäriini (illative plural)
äpäröihini (illative plural)
äpärälläni (adessive singular)
äpäröilläni (adessive plural)
äpärilläni (adessive plural)
äpärältäni (ablative singular)
äpäröiltäni (ablative plural)
äpäriltäni (ablative plural)
äpärälleni (allative singular)
äpäröilleni (allative plural)
äpärilleni (allative plural)
äpäränäni (essive singular)
äpäröinäni (essive plural)
äpärinäni (essive plural)
äpäräkseni (singular translative)
äpäröikseni (plural translative)
äpärikseni (plural translative)
äpärättäni (abessive singular)
äpäröittäni (abessive plural)
äpärittäni (abessive plural)
äpäröineni (comitative plural)
äpärineni (comitative plural)
äpäräsi (nominative singular)
äpäräsi (nominative plural)
äpäräsi (accusative nominative singular)
äpäräsi (accusative nominative plural)
äpäräsi (accusative genitive singular)
äpäräsi (accusative genitive plural)
äpäräsi (genitive singular)
äpäriesi (genitive plural)
äpäröidesi (genitive plural)
äpäröittesi (genitive plural)
äpäröjesi (genitive plural rare)
äpäräisi (genitive plural rare)
äpärääsi (partitive singular)
äpäriäsi (partitive plural)
äpäröitäsi (partitive plural)
äpäröjäsi (partitive plural rare)
äpärässäsi (inessive singular)
äpäröissäsi (inessive plural)
äpärissäsi (inessive plural)
äpärästäsi (elative singular)
äpäröistäsi (elative plural)
äpäristäsi (elative plural)
äpärääsi (illative singular)
äpäriisi (illative plural)
äpäröihisi (illative plural)
äpärälläsi (adessive singular)
äpäröilläsi (adessive plural)
äpärilläsi (adessive plural)
äpärältäsi (ablative singular)
äpäröiltäsi (ablative plural)
äpäriltäsi (ablative plural)
äpärällesi (allative singular)
äpäröillesi (allative plural)
äpärillesi (allative plural)
äpäränäsi (essive singular)
äpäröinäsi (essive plural)
äpärinäsi (essive plural)
äpäräksesi (singular translative)
äpäröiksesi (plural translative)
äpäriksesi (plural translative)
äpärättäsi (abessive singular)
äpäröittäsi (abessive plural)
äpärittäsi (abessive plural)
äpäröinesi (comitative plural)
äpärinesi (comitative plural)
äpärämme (nominative singular)
äpärämme (nominative plural)
äpärämme (accusative nominative singular)
äpärämme (accusative nominative plural)
äpärämme (accusative genitive singular)
äpärämme (accusative genitive plural)
äpärämme (genitive singular)
äpäriemme (genitive plural)
äpäröidemme (genitive plural)
äpäröittemme (genitive plural)
äpäröjemme (genitive plural rare)
äpäräimme (genitive plural rare)
äpäräämme (partitive singular)
äpäriämme (partitive plural)
äpäröitämme (partitive plural)
äpäröjämme (partitive plural rare)
äpärässämme (inessive singular)
äpäröissämme (inessive plural)
äpärissämme (inessive plural)
äpärästämme (elative singular)
äpäröistämme (elative plural)
äpäristämme (elative plural)
äpäräämme (illative singular)
äpäriimme (illative plural)
äpäröihimme (illative plural)
äpärällämme (adessive singular)
äpäröillämme (adessive plural)
äpärillämme (adessive plural)
äpärältämme (ablative singular)
äpäröiltämme (ablative plural)
äpäriltämme (ablative plural)
äpärällemme (allative singular)
äpäröillemme (allative plural)
äpärillemme (allative plural)
äpäränämme (essive singular)
äpäröinämme (essive plural)
äpärinämme (essive plural)
äpäräksemme (singular translative)
äpäröiksemme (plural translative)
äpäriksemme (plural translative)
äpärättämme (abessive singular)
äpäröittämme (abessive plural)
äpärittämme (abessive plural)
äpäröinemme (comitative plural)
äpärinemme (comitative plural)
äpäränne (nominative singular)
äpäränne (nominative plural)
äpäränne (accusative nominative singular)
äpäränne (accusative nominative plural)
äpäränne (accusative genitive singular)
äpäränne (accusative genitive plural)
äpäränne (genitive singular)
äpärienne (genitive plural)
äpäröidenne (genitive plural)
äpäröittenne (genitive plural)
äpäröjenne (genitive plural rare)
äpäräinne (genitive plural rare)
äpäräänne (partitive singular)
äpäriänne (partitive plural)
äpäröitänne (partitive plural)
äpäröjänne (partitive plural rare)
äpärässänne (inessive singular)
äpäröissänne (inessive plural)
äpärissänne (inessive plural)
äpärästänne (elative singular)
äpäröistänne (elative plural)
äpäristänne (elative plural)
äpäräänne (illative singular)
äpäriinne (illative plural)
äpäröihinne (illative plural)
äpärällänne (adessive singular)
äpäröillänne (adessive plural)
äpärillänne (adessive plural)
äpärältänne (ablative singular)
äpäröiltänne (ablative plural)
äpäriltänne (ablative plural)
äpärällenne (allative singular)
äpäröillenne (allative plural)
äpärillenne (allative plural)
äpäränänne (essive singular)
äpäröinänne (essive plural)
äpärinänne (essive plural)
äpäräksenne (singular translative)
äpäröiksenne (plural translative)
äpäriksenne (plural translative)
äpärättänne (abessive singular)
äpäröittänne (abessive plural)
äpärittänne (abessive plural)
äpäröinenne (comitative plural)
äpärinenne (comitative plural)
äpäränsä (nominative singular)
äpäränsä (nominative plural)
äpäränsä (accusative nominative singular)
äpäränsä (accusative nominative plural)
äpäränsä (accusative genitive singular)
äpäränsä (accusative genitive plural)
äpäränsä (genitive singular)
äpäriensä (genitive plural)
äpäröidensä (genitive plural)
äpäröittensä (genitive plural)
äpäröjensä (genitive plural rare)
äpäräinsä (genitive plural rare)
äpäräänsä (partitive singular)
äpäriään (partitive plural)
äpäröitään (partitive plural)
äpäriänsä (partitive plural)
äpäröitänsä (partitive plural)
äpäröjään (partitive plural rare)
äpäröjänsä (partitive plural rare)
äpärässään (inessive singular)
äpärässänsä (inessive singular)
äpäröissään (inessive plural)
äpärissään (inessive plural)
äpäröissänsä (inessive plural)
äpärissänsä (inessive plural)
äpärästään (elative singular)
äpärästänsä (elative singular)
äpäröistään (elative plural)
äpäristään (elative plural)
äpäröistänsä (elative plural)
äpäristänsä (elative plural)
äpäräänsä (illative singular)
äpäriinsä (illative plural)
äpäröihinsä (illative plural)
äpärällään (adessive singular)
äpärällänsä (adessive singular)
äpäröillään (adessive plural)
äpärillään (adessive plural)
äpäröillänsä (adessive plural)
äpärillänsä (adessive plural)
äpärältään (ablative singular)
äpärältänsä (ablative singular)
äpäröiltään (ablative plural)
äpäriltään (ablative plural)
äpäröiltänsä (ablative plural)
äpäriltänsä (ablative plural)
äpärälleen (allative singular)
äpärällensä (allative singular)
äpäröilleen (allative plural)
äpärilleen (allative plural)
äpäröillensä (allative plural)
äpärillensä (allative plural)
äpäränään (essive singular)
äpäränänsä (essive singular)
äpäröinään (essive plural)
äpärinään (essive plural)
äpäröinänsä (essive plural)
äpärinänsä (essive plural)
äpäräkseen (singular translative)
äpäräksensä (singular translative)
äpäröikseen (plural translative)
äpärikseen (plural translative)
äpäröiksensä (plural translative)
äpäriksensä (plural translative)
äpärättään (abessive singular)
äpärättänsä (abessive singular)
äpäröittään (abessive plural)
äpärittään (abessive plural)
äpäröittänsä (abessive plural)
äpärittänsä (abessive plural)
äpäröineen (comitative plural)
äpärineen (comitative plural)
äpäröinensä (comitative plural)
äpärinensä (comitative plural)

Probably fronted from apara (“dregs, mash”).

(printing, informal) either a widow or an orphan (a single line of a paragraph on a separate page from the rest of the paragraph)


Mittel

de-noun

Mittel n (strong, genitive Mittels, plural Mittel)

Mittels (genitive)
Mittel (plural)
Mittel (nominative singular)
Mittel (definite nominative plural)
Mittels (genitive singular)
Mittel (definite genitive plural)
Mittel (dative singular)
Mitteln (dative definite plural)
Mittel (accusative singular)
Mittel (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German mittel, from Old High German mittil (akin to Old Saxon middil), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), *midil-. Compare Dutch middel, English middle. See also Mitte.

(uncountable, printing, dated) The middle of the 7 traditional sizes of German type, between Cicero and Tertia, standardized as 14 point and taken as roughly equivalent to "English" type.


headline

(printing, dated) The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page.


perla

Horace
Jean Jannon
New Testament
Vergil
it:perla

Borrowed from French perle, the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time.

(printing, dated) a small size of type, standardized as 4 point


perla

(printing, dated) a small size of type, standardized as 4 or 5 point


tekst

nl-noun

tekst m (plural teksten, diminutive tekstje n)

teksten (plural)
tekstje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: teks

→ Indonesian: teks

(uncountable, printing, dated) a large size of type standardized as 16 point


bring up

en-verb

bring up (third-person singular simple present brings up, present participle bringing up, simple past and past participle brought up)

brings up (present singular third-person)
bringing up (participle present)
brought up (participle past)
brought up (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bring up.wav

From Middle English bring up, dissimilated from Middle English upbringen (“to bring up, raise”). Doublet of upbring.

der

(obsolete, printing) To level type or make it ready for printing by overlaying it.


inv.

(printing, art) Abbreviation of invēnit.


drive out

en-verb

drive out (third-person singular simple present drives out, present participle driving out, simple past drove out, past participle driven out)

drives out (present singular third-person)
driving out (participle present)
drove out (past)
driven out (participle past)

(obsolete, printing, of type) To set closely; to take up less space because the typesetter uses type that is thinner than the copy or the typesetter whites out more or squeezes in more lines on each page.


lectura

Borrowed from Late Latin lēctūra, from Latin lēctūrus.

(printing, dated) a medium size of type equated with the French cicéro and variously equal to 11 or 12 points


prueba

Deverbal from probar or Late Latin proba, from Latin probō.


Cicero

From its use in publishing Pannartz and Sweynheim's 1468 edition of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares ("Letters to My Friends").

(uncountable, printing, dated) cicero, the 5th of the 7 traditional German sizes of type, between Korpus and Mittel, standardized as 12 point.

Pannartz and Sweynheim
cicero (typography)


forme

1978, David A. Bloestein, Introduction, John Marston, David A. Bloestein (editor), Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn, page 47,
Both these formes, with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2.

1994, Jay L. Halio, Introduction, Jay L. Halio (editor), William Shakespeare, The First Quarto of King Lear, page 21,
Q2 was printed in twenty-two formes.

In casting off, the printing house would judge the length of a manuscript to determine both how many sheets would be needed, and what the divisions were between one forme and another. (A forme is one side of a sheet: four quarto pages or two folio pages.) Because formes do not have many consecutive pages, estimates would be further broken down by page. If a quarto forme includes a putative page one, for instance, that side of the sheet would also include pages four, five, and eight.

2011, Eugene Giddens, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text, page 41:

(printing) Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”)


retirada

[ɾɛ.t̪ɪˈɾaː.d̪ɐ]


retirada

[ɾɛ.t̪ɪˈɾaː.d̪ɐ]


copyedit

copyedit (third-person singular simple present copyedits, present participle copyediting, simple past and past participle copyedited)

copyedits (present singular third-person)
copyediting (participle present)
copyedited (participle past)
copyedited (past)

Memoirs of a Bastard Angel contains so many amazing howlers that it seems barely to have been copyedited or proofread.

1990 April 28, Duncan Mitchell, “A Dazzling Parade Of Celebrity Names”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

(transitive, printing) To correct the spelling, grammar, formatting, etc. of printed material and prepare it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing.


folio

From Middle English folio (“leaf of a book”), borrowed from Medieval Latin foliō, Late Latin foliō, Latin foliō, the ablative singular form of Late Latin folium (“leaf or sheet of paper”), Latin folium (“leaf of a plant”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”). Doublet of foil and folium, and distantly related to phyllo and phyllon.
Senses 1, 2, 3.1, 5, and 6 relating to a leaf or page are derived from Medieval Latin foliō in references; sense 5 (“page in an account book”) may be derived from Italian foglio (“rectangular sheet of paper”), from Latin folium. Senses 3.2 and 3.3 relating to a paper size are from Italian in foglio or its etymon Latin in foliō.

der

Folio.—The running number of the pages of a work. When there is no running title, the folio is placed in the centre of the head-line; when there is a running title, at the outside corner—the even folio on the left, the odd on the right. The preface, contents, index, and all introductory matter, usually have separate folios inserted in Roman lower-case numerals.

[1871, “Folio”, in J[ohn] Luther Ringwalt, editor, American Encyclopædia of Printing, Philadelphia, Pa.: Menamin & Ringwalt, 517 Minor Street; J. B. Lippincott & Co., 715 Market Street, →OCLC, page 172:

verso left-hand page of a book usually identified with even folio numbers. […] recto right-hand page of a book usually identified with odd folio numbers.

2006, Andrew Haslam, “Creating a Book”, in Book Design (Portfolio), London: Laurence King Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:

A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.

This pocket copying-machine, by which letters and writings of all sizes, even folio, may be very quickly copied, consists of a press four inches long, with a small cylinder, which contains pens and ink: the whole apparatus may be conveniently carried in the pocket, and the price is very moderate.

1821 April 1, “Useful Arts”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Co. Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square, →OCLC, page 180:

(by extension, printing)
A sheet of paper folded in half.

A rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio.

A treatiſe in Folio, intitled, The Magazen of Honour, or a Treatiſe concerninge the Nobillitie of England accordinge to the Lawes of England, with their Priviledges in Parliament, & in what caſes noe priviledge, together with the Etymologie, definition & antiquitie of 3 ſortes of Barons.

1759, Humfrey Wanley, David Casley, William Hocker, Charles Morton, compilers, A Catalogue of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, Purchased by Authority of Parliament, for the Use of the Publick; and Preserved in the British Museum. Published by Order of the Trustees, volume II, London: Printed by Dryden Leach, and sold by L. Davis and C. Reymers, opposite Grays-Inn, Holborn, →OCLC, serial number 5876:

Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.

1902, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 2nd edition, page 102:

He [collector Anthony Morris Storer] bequeathed part of his collection to […] Eton College, including the First Folio [of William Shakespeare], a fine copy of the Second Folio, a poor copy of the Third Folio, and the collection of Quartos.

2003, Anthony James West, The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book. Volume II: A New Worldwide Census of First Folios, volume II, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 87:

A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 centimetres in height.


Perl

Perl (genitive)
Perl (nominative singular)
Perl (genitive singular)
Perl (dative singular)
Perl (accusative singular)

From French perle (“pearl”), used by Jean Jannon for the type used in his miniature editions of Horace, Vergil, and the New Testament in the 1620s.

(uncountable, printing, dated) pearl: the small size of type standardized as 5 points.

Horace
Jean Jannon
New Testament
Vergil
de:Perl (Schriftmaß)


bang out

en-verb

bang out (third-person singular simple present bangs out, present participle banging out, simple past and past participle banged out)

bangs out (present singular third-person)
banging out (participle present)
banged out (participle past)
banged out (past)

As Hill left, his colleagues on the foreign desk started to bang him out – the traditional printers' farewell that involves thumping the desk as loudly as possible. According to reports the whole of the Telegraph's vast multimedia newsroom, said to be the largest in Europe, was shaking as staff banged out yet another colleague.

2008 June 26, “Hill and Dryden off with a bang”, in The Guardian:

(transitive, British, printing) To celebrate (a fellow printing or newspaper industry worker) to mark their completion of an apprenticeship or their retirement by (formerly) hitting metal furniture in the printing room or (more recently) hitting one's desk in the newsroom.


colophon

Borrowed from Late Latin colophōn, from Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophṓn, “peak or finishing touch”).

der

(printing, publishing) In manuscripts (typically before the invention of printing), the note, usually at the end, left by the scribe who copied it, giving information on their exemplar, where and when the copy was made, and sometimes, their own name.

(printing) A printer's or publisher's identifying inscription or logo appearing at the front or end of a book, or the same appearing on the spine or dust jacket.


selvage

en-noun

selvage (countable and uncountable, plural selvages)

From early modern Dutch selfegghe (Modern Dutch zelfkant (“selvage”)), equivalent to self + edge.

(printing) The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving.

reunus

excess area of printed or perforated sheet


doublet

From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

zeke

(historical in English) a man’s waistcoat

(printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.


macule

en-verb

macule (third-person singular simple present macules, present participle maculing, simple past and past participle maculed)

macules (present singular third-person)
maculing (participle present)
maculed (participle past)
maculed (past)

From Middle French macule, from Latin macula. Doublet of macchia, macula and, with a suffix, maquis.

(printing) To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type.


буква

bg-noun

бу́ква • (búkva) f

бу́ква (canonical)
búkva (romanization)
бу́ква (indefinite singular)
бу́кви (indefinite plural)
бу́квата (definite singular)
бу́квите (definite plural)
бу́кво (singular vocative)
бу́кви (plural vocative)


en-noun

12mo (usually uncountable, plural 12mos)

(printing) A book size using duodecimo-sized pages.


4to (countable and uncountable, plural 4tos)

From Latin quārtō, ablative case singular of quārtus (“fourth”).

(printing) Abbreviation of quarto, a corresponding book size.


(printing) A book size, corresponding to the page size.


incunabulum

From Latin incūnābulum (“cradle, origin”).

Sebastian, a profound student of such lore, had long believed that the book was a mere medieval legend; and he had been startled as well as gratified when he found this copy on the shelves of a dealer in old manuscripts and incunabula.

August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Treader of the Dust”, in Weird Tales:

Something about him reminded me of one of those figures from old-fashioned playing cards or the sort used by fortune-tellers, a print straight from the pages of an incunabulum: his presence was both funereal and incandescent, like a curse dressed in its Sunday best.

2004, Luisa Graves, The Shadow of the Wind, translation of original by Carlos Ruiz Zafón:

(printing) A book, single sheet, or image that was printed before the year 1501 in Europe.


druk

druk (nominative singular)
druki (nominative plural)
druku (genitive singular)
druków (genitive plural)
drukowi (dative singular)
drukom (dative plural)
druk (accusative singular)
druki (accusative plural)
drukiem (instrumental singular)
drukami (instrumental plural)
druku (locative singular)
drukach (locative plural)
druku (singular vocative)
druki (plural vocative)

Te książki właśnie wyszły z druku.

Those books have just come from printing.

(printing) printing (process of printing)

Ten tekst napisany jest zbyt małym drukiem.

(printing) print (letters forming the text of a document)


ster

nl-noun

ster f (plural sterren, diminutive sterretje n)

sterren (plural)
sterretje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: ster

Negerhollands: ster

→ Indonesian: seter

From Middle Dutch sterre, sterne, from Old Dutch sterro, sterno, from Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

(printing) an asterisk (*). (often used in the diminutive: sterretje)


fall out

en-verb

fall out (third-person singular simple present falls out, present participle falling out, simple past fell out, past participle fallen out)

falls out (present singular third-person)
falling out (participle present)
fell out (past)
fallen out (participle past)

(intransitive, obsolete, printing, of type) To fall off due to the quoins holding it in place having become wet and therefore loose.


intaglio

en-noun

intaglio (countable and uncountable, plural intagli or intaglios or intaglioes or intaglii)

intagli (plural)
intaglios (plural)
intaglioes (plural)
intaglii (plural)

Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”).

(printing) Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.


scumming

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-scumming.wav

(printing) The accumulation of sticky ink on a plate.


manchette

(printing) A vertical heading within a newspaper article.


chapeau

Antillean Creole: chapo

→ Chinook Jargon: siyáputl, siyápo

→ Quileute: tsiyá·pos

→ Choctaw: shʋpo, shapo

→ Galician: chapeu

→ German: Chapeau

→ Hausa: shàpô

desc

→ Hebrew: שָׁאפּוֹ

→ Hebrew: שָׁאפּוֹ

→ Iberian:

Catalan: xapó

Galician: chapeu

desctree

Portuguese: chapéu; (obsolete) chapeo
→ Konkani: चेपें (cepẽ)
→ Ladino: chapeo
→ Manado Malay: capeo (“hat”)
→ Swahili: chepeo

Spanish: chapeo

→ Jeju: 사포 (sapo)

→ Narragansett: shapú

Inherited from Middle French chappeau m, from Old French chapel m, from Early Medieval Latin cappellus m, diminutive from Late Latin cappa f. The interjection was originally short for chapeau bas.


tympan

As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.

2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:

(printing) A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.


tympan

Borrowed from Latin tympanum. Doublet of timbre, which was inherited.


typecast

en-verb

typecast (third-person singular simple present typecasts, present participle typecasting, simple past and past participle typecast or typecasted)

typecasts (present singular third-person)
typecasting (participle present)
typecast (participle past)
typecast (past)
typecasted (participle past)
typecasted (past)

Duensing has elected to resuscitate and typecast faces that in the main might be termed scholarly in nature […]

1967, “Inland Printer, American Lithographer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 159, part 2, page 116:

(printing, historical) To found type in a mold.


lead out

lead out (third-person singular simple present leads out, present participle leading out, simple past and past participle leaded out)

leads out (present singular third-person)
leading out (participle present)
leaded out (participle past)
leaded out (past)

(printing, historical, transitive) To pad out (text) by inserting lead slugs between words.


excelsior

From Latin excelsior, comparative of excelsus (“high”). The name of the stuffing material was originally a trademark.

(US printing, dated) The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point.


tipo

Borrowed from Spanish tipo, from Latin typus (“figure; type”), from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark”).


frisket

And while the Tympan is coming, he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it, as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position, as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder

1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:

(printing) A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.


набор

bg-noun

на́бор • (nábor) m (relational adjective на́борен)

на́бор (canonical)
nábor (romanization)
на́борен (adjective relational)
на́бор (indefinite singular)
на́бори (indefinite plural)
на́борът (definite singular subjective)
на́борите (definite plural subjective)
на́бора (definite objective singular)
на́борите (definite objective plural)
на́бора (count-form plural)

O-grade deverbal of набера́ (naberá, “to pick up”). By surface analysis, на- (na-) + Proto-Slavic *borъ (“collection”).

surf

набор за печат

(printing) typesetting, composition of written material


набор

ru-noun+

набо́р • (nabór) m inan (genitive набо́ра, nominative plural набо́ры, genitive plural набо́ров)

набо́р (canonical)
nabór (romanization)
набо́ра (genitive)
набо́ры (nominative plural)
набо́ров (genitive plural)
набо́р (nominative singular)
набо́ры (nominative plural)
набо́ра (genitive singular)
набо́ров (genitive plural)
набо́ру (dative singular)
набо́рам (dative plural)
набо́р (accusative singular)
набо́ры (accusative plural)
набо́ром (instrumental singular)
набо́рами (instrumental plural)
набо́ре (prepositional singular)
набо́рах (plural prepositional)

→ Azerbaijani: nabor

(printing) font type case containing movable type


nabor

az-noun

nabor (definite accusative naboru, plural naborlar)

naboru (accusative definite)
naborlar (plural)
nabor (nominative singular)
naborlar (nominative plural)
naboru (accusative definite singular)
naborları (accusative definite plural)
nabora (dative singular)
naborlara (dative plural)
naborda (locative singular)
naborlarda (locative plural)
nabordan (ablative singular)
naborlardan (ablative plural)
naborun (definite genitive singular)
naborların (definite genitive plural)
naborum (first-person nominative possessive singular)
naborlarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
naborun (nominative possessive second-person singular)
naborların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
naboru (nominative possessive singular third-person)
naborları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
naborumuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
naborlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
naborunuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
naboru (nominative plural possessive third-person)
naborları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
naborumu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
naborlarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
naborunu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
naborlarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
naborunu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
naborlarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
naborumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
naborlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
naborunuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
naborunu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
naborlarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
naboruma (dative first-person possessive singular)
naborlarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
naboruna (dative possessive second-person singular)
naborlarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
naboruna (dative possessive singular third-person)
naborlarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
naborumuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
naborlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
naborunuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
naboruna (dative plural possessive third-person)
naborlarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
naborumda (first-person locative possessive singular)
naborlarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
naborunda (locative possessive second-person singular)
naborlarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
naborunda (locative possessive singular third-person)
naborlarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
naborumuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
naborlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
naborunuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
naborunda (locative plural possessive third-person)
naborlarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
naborumdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
naborlarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
naborundan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
naborlarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
naborundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
naborlarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
naborumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
naborlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
naborunuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
naborundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
naborlarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
naborumun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
naborlarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
naborunun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
naborlarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
naborunun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
naborlarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
naborumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
naborlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
naborunuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
naborunun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
naborlarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


lithographic

(printing) Related to the method of lithography.


imprimatur

en-noun

imprimatur (plural imprimaturs or imprimantur)

imprimaturs (plural)
imprimantur (plural)

/ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmɑː.tə/

/ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmɑː.tʊə/

/ɪmˈpɹɪmətə/

/ɪmpɹɪˈmɑtʊɹ/

/ɪmˈpɹɪmətɚ/

/ɪmˈpɹɪmətʊɹ/

From Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).

The Cheats · A Comedy · Written in the Year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. By John Wilson

1664, John Wilson, The Cheats, publication info page

Sometimes 5 Imprimaturs are ſeen together dialogue-wiſe in the Piatza of one Title page, complementing and ducking each other with their ſhav'n reverences, whether the Author, who ſtands by in perplexity at the foot of his Epiſtle, ſhall to the Preſſe or to the ſpunge.

1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 8:

(printing) An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.


minum

(printing, obsolete) A small kind of printing type; minion.


biga

biga (nominative singular)
bigi (nominative plural)
bigi (genitive singular)
big (genitive plural)
bidze (dative singular)
bigom (dative plural)
bigę (accusative singular)
bigi (accusative plural)
bigą (instrumental singular)
bigami (instrumental plural)
bidze (locative singular)
bigach (locative plural)
bigo (singular vocative)
bigi (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German biegen. Doublet of Boh and Bug.

(printing) crease (element of the die-cutting machine used to emboss the bend line of the paper)


catchword

(printing, historical) A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page.

siirtymäsana

word that repeats the first word on the following page


capa

→ Japanese: 合羽

→ Kadiwéu: caapa

→ Tetum: kapa

From Old Galician-Portuguese capa, from Late Latin cappa.

(printing) cover (front and back of a book or magazine)


brevis

la-noun

brevis f (genitive brevis); third declension

brevis (genitive)
brevis (nominative singular)
brevēs (nominative plural)
brevis (genitive singular)
brevium (genitive plural)
brevī (dative singular)
brevibus (dative plural)
brevem (accusative singular)
brevēs (accusative plural)
brevīs (accusative plural)
breve (ablative singular)
brevibus (ablative plural)
brevis (singular vocative)
brevēs (plural vocative)

English: breve

Italian: breve


lockup

(printing, historical) A device for locking type into position for printing.


go to bed

en-verb

go to bed (third-person singular simple present goes to bed, present participle going to bed, simple past went to bed, past participle gone to bed)

goes to bed (present singular third-person)
going to bed (participle present)
went to bed (past)
gone to bed (participle past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-go to bed.wav

Already attested in Old English as tō bedde gān.

Coordinate term: put to bed

The army newspaper "went to bed" several hours before the civilian one, […]

1949, Max Eisen, How to Increase Daily Newspaper Circulation, page 43:

So gone are the days when a Vanguard reporter who had gone to cover an assignment in Victoria Island may not get to his office at Kirikiri before the newspaper went to bed because the reporter was held back by the usual Lagos traffic jam.

2007, Ikechukwu Enoch Nwosu, E. O. Soola, Communication in Global, ICTs and Ecosystem Perspectives, page 238:

(printing) Of a newspaper: to finish being prepared for printing.


testo

From Early New Latin textus (“text”), from Latin textus (“woven”), perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”).

(uncountable, printing, dated) a large size of type, standardized as 16 point


dele

dele (third-person singular simple present deles, present participle deleing, simple past and past participle deled)

deles (present singular third-person)
deleing (participle present)
deled (participle past)
deled (past)

From Latin dēlē, second person singular imperative of dēleo (“delete”). Alternatively, a clipping of deleatur.

(printing, usually imperative) To delete.


SPP

surat perjanjian penerbitan
surat perjanjian penerbitan#Indonesian

(printing) Initialism of surat perjanjian penerbitan.


set out

set out (third-person singular simple present sets out, present participle setting out, simple past and past participle set out)

sets out (present singular third-person)
setting out (participle present)
set out (participle past)
set out (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-set out.wav

(transitive, obsolete, printing) To arrange the necessary type into a printing press in preparation to run it.


set off

set off (third-person singular simple present sets off, present participle setting off, simple past and past participle set off)

sets off (present singular third-person)
setting off (participle present)
set off (participle past)
set off (past)

(printing, historical) To deface or soil the next sheet; said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry.


lock up

lock up (third-person singular simple present locks up, present participle locking up, simple past and past participle locked up)

locks up (present singular third-person)
locking up (participle present)
locked up (participle past)
locked up (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-lock up.wav

(obsolete, printing) To fasten quoins securely with a mallet and a shooting-stick.


overprint

overprint (third-person singular simple present overprints, present participle overprinting, simple past and past participle overprinted)

overprints (present singular third-person)
overprinting (participle present)
overprinted (participle past)
overprinted (past)

/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌpɹɪnt/

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈpɹɪnt/

(printing) To overlap different colours to avoid gaps.


keep down

keep down (third-person singular simple present keeps down, present participle keeping down, simple past and past participle kept down)

keeps down (present singular third-person)
keeping down (participle present)
kept down (participle past)
kept down (past)

(obsolete, printing) To refrain from using capital letters more than absolutely necessary.


oddment

(printing) A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).


imposition

en-noun

imposition (countable and uncountable, plural impositions)

From Middle English imposicioun, from Old French imposicion, from Latin impositio.

(printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.


duodecimo

Latin ablative of duodecimus (“twelfth”) (from duodecim 'twelve', from duo 'two' + decem 'ten')

(paper, printing) A size of paper, so called because it is originally made by folding and cutting a single sheet from a printing press into 12 leaves; (5 by 7¾ inches): 6.5 to 7.5 inches high, approximately 4.5 inches wide.

In recent years, I have taken to reading while walking. I believe the Romantics were guilty of such behavior; a duodecimo was small enough to fit into a jacket pocket.

2015, William Logan, “A Critics Notebook”, in Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure, page 304:

(printing) A book having pages of that size.


headband

From Middle English *hedband, from Old English hēafodbænd, hēafodbend (“headband”), equivalent to head + band. Cognate with Old High German houbitbant (“headband”), Dutch hoofdband (“headband”).

(printing) A thin slip of iron on the tympan of a printing-press.


hot metal

A Fleet Street veteran of the hot-metal days, he had moved to the Mediterranean and spotted an anglophone niche among the marinas and yacht brokers.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 127:

In the mid-80s, most British newspapers were still produced using hot metal, despite the widespread use elsewhere of modern offset litho technology.

2011 July 27, Jon Henley, “Rupert Murdoch and the battle of Wapping: 25 years on”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

hot metal typesetting
hot metal typesetting

(printing) Printing type cast from molten metal; hot metal typesetting.


distributor

(printing, historical) A machine for distributing type.

(printing, historical) An appliance, such as a roller, in a printing press, for distributing ink.


underprint

en-adj

underprint (comparative more underprint, superlative most underprint)

more underprint (comparative)
most underprint (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underprint.wav

(printing) The addition of colour under black areas to produce a deeper black and prevent oversaturation of the paper.


romana

(uncountable, printing, dated) a large size of type standardized as 16 point


Augustin

From French Saint-Augustin (“14-point type”).

(printing, French contexts, dated) Synonym of English.


plucking

en-noun

plucking (countable and uncountable, plural pluckings)

Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]

1959, E. A. Apps, Printing Ink Technology, page 415:

(printing) The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.


strikeover

(printing) Strikeover or strikeout text, i.e., fonts where each letter appears to be "crossed out".


colour bar

(printing) A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages.


cast off

en-verb

cast off (third-person singular simple present casts off, present participle casting off, simple past cast off or casted off, past participle cast off)

casts off (present singular third-person)
casting off (participle present)
cast off (past)
casted off (past)
cast off (participle past)

To conserve type, copy was "cast off"; that is, type needed for the initial pages was estimated so that the pages need not be composed in the same sequence as the copy.

2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing, page 102:

(printing, historical) To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy.


canone

From Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”).

der

(printing, dated) 40- and 44-cicero type, the later taken as equivalent to the English canon


els

nl-noun

els f (plural elzen, diminutive elsje n)

elzen (plural)
elsje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: èls

From Middle Dutch elsene, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *alisnō, *alusnō. Related to *ēlō, whence Dutch aal, German Ahle, English awl.


photo-offset

en-noun

photo-offset (countable and uncountable, plural photo-offsets)

(printing) A method of offset printing that uses photolithographic plates.


photo-offset

en-verb

photo-offset (third-person singular simple present photo-offsets, present participle photo-offsetting, simple past and past participle photo-offset)

photo-offsets (present singular third-person)
photo-offsetting (participle present)
photo-offset (participle past)
photo-offset (past)

(transitive, intransitive, printing) To print by this method.


photolithography

From photo- (“light, photography”) + lithography.

prefix

(printing) A lithographic procedure in which printing plates are made using a photographic process.


Platte

de-noun

Platte f (genitive Platte, plural Platten)

Platte (genitive)
Platten (plural)
Platte (nominative singular)
Platten (definite nominative plural)
Platte (genitive singular)
Platten (definite genitive plural)
Platte (dative singular)
Platten (dative definite plural)
Platte (accusative singular)
Platten (accusative definite plural)

→ Czech: plát

→ Kashubian: plata

From Middle High German plate, from late Old High German platta, from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “wide; flat”). Doublet of Plätte.

der

(printing) Clipping of Druckplatte (“printing plate”).


salta

Early borrowing from Spanish saltar. Doublet of jota.


shooting stick

(printing, historical) A printer's tool to be struck with a mallet for driving quoins.


space out

en-verb

space out (third-person singular simple present spaces out, present participle spacing out, simple past and past participle spaced out)

spaces out (present singular third-person)
spacing out (participle present)
spaced out (participle past)
spaced out (past)

(transitive, dated, typing, printing) To increase the white space between letters, words or lines.


space suppression

(computing, printing) The suppression of the normal advancement of paper in a printer after printing a line of text.


ív

ívek (plural)
ív (nominative singular)
ívek (nominative plural)
ívet (accusative singular)
íveket (accusative plural)
ívnek (dative singular)
íveknek (dative plural)
ívvel (instrumental singular)
ívekkel (instrumental plural)
ívért (causal-final singular)
ívekért (causal-final plural)
ívvé (singular translative)
ívekké (plural translative)
ívig (singular terminative)
ívekig (plural terminative)
ívként (essive-formal singular)
ívekként (essive-formal plural)
ívben (inessive singular)
ívekben (inessive plural)
íven (singular superessive)
íveken (plural superessive)
ívnél (adessive singular)
íveknél (adessive plural)
ívbe (illative singular)
ívekbe (illative plural)
ívre (singular sublative)
ívekre (plural sublative)
ívhez (allative singular)
ívekhez (allative plural)
ívből (elative singular)
ívekből (elative plural)
ívről (delative singular)
ívekről (delative plural)
ívtől (ablative singular)
ívektől (ablative plural)
ívé (singular)
íveké (plural)
ívéi (singular)
ívekéi (plural)
ívem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
íveim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
íved (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
íveid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
íve (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
ívei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
ívünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
íveink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
ívetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
íveitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
ívük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
íveik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From Proto-Uralic *jëŋse or *joŋse (“bow”). Doublet of íj (“bow”).

(printing) signature (a group of four (or a multiple of four) pages printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book)


white out

white out (third-person singular simple present whites out, present participle whiting out, simple past and past participle whited out)

whites out (present singular third-person)
whiting out (participle present)
whited out (participle past)
whited out (past)

(obsolete, printing) To space out a composition for printing.


make-ready

(printing) A sheet of paper on which overlays are pasted for printing.

(printing) The process of preparing such sheets


orla

Probably from Vulgar Latin *ōrula, diminutive of Latin ōra.


sangrado

[sãŋˈɡɾa.ð̞o]


tiras

(printing) circulation (number of copies sold of e.g. a newspaper).


trame

Inherited from Old French traime (altered to conform with the verb tramer), from Latin trāma.


electrotype

(printing) a plate, made by electroplating a mold, such as used in letterpress printing


prova

From Old Galician-Portuguese prova, either regressively derived from the verb provar or from Late Latin proba (“proof”), from Latin probō (“to approve; to prove”), from probus (“good”).


woodblock

(printing) A wooden block used as a printing form.


stereotypy

en-noun

stereotypy (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypies)

(uncountable, printing) The process of making stereotype plates and printing from them.


halftone

(printing) A picture made by using the process of half-toning.


kunyas

Early borrowing of Spanish cuñas, plural of cuña, from cuño or from Vulgar Latin *cunea, from Latin cuneus. Doublet of kuwoyn.


perfecting

perfecting (usually uncountable, plural perfectings)

(printing) The process of printing on both sides of the printed-on material during its single pass through the printing press.


headpiece

Coordinate term: frontispiece

A view of a Wenford train headed by this locomotive forms the headpiece to the present article.

1940 December, Charles E. Lee, “The Wenford Mineral Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 643:

(publishing, printing) A decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters.


runaround

(printing) A section of type that is narrower than that of the column it is part of; typically next to an illustration.


filosofia

From Latin philosophia, from Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía), from φίλος (phílos, “beloved”) + σοφία (sophía, “wisdom”). By surface analysis, filo- + -sofia.

(printing, dated) small pica: 11-point type


トンボ

(printing) register mark (marking used to indicate margins, positions for cropping, etc.)


paysage

→ Albanian: peizazh

→ English: paysage

→ Esperanto: pejzaĝo

→ Polish: pejzaż

→ Romanian: peisaj

desctree

→ Russian: пейза́ж (pejzáž)
→ Georgian: პეიზაჟი (ṗeizaži)
→ Kazakh: пейзаж (peizaj)

→ Serbo-Croatian: pejzaž

→ Turkish: peyzaj

From pays + -age. Cf. also Italian paesaggio, Catalan paisatge, Spanish paisaje, Portuguese paisagem, Romanian peisaj.