linotype

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Lin=o=type

CIDE DICTIONARY

linotype, n. [See Line; Type.].

 A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing the keys of a keyboard like one on a typewriter, the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the entire line, or stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

linotype, n. Printing propr. a composing-machine producing lines of words as single strips of metal, used esp. for newspapers.

Etymology

= line o' type

THESAURUS

linotype

Intertype, Monotype, cold-type typesetting, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, dummy, furniture, galley chase, hot-metal typesetting, imposition, justification, layout, line of type, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, quoin, setting, slug, typesetting, typesetting machine

ROGET THESAURUS

linotype

Printing

N printing, block printing, type-printing, plate printing, (engraving), the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder, printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys.