mimeograph

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: mim=e=o=graph

CIDE DICTIONARY

mimeograph, n. [Gr. to imitate + -graph.].

 A copying device that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed; it was invented by Edison.  [1913 Webster]

mimeograph, v. t. 

 to make copies of using a mimeograph; as, She mimeographed the syllabus.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mimeograph, n. & v.
--n.
1 (often attrib.) a duplicating machine which produces copies from a stencil.
2 a copy produced in this way.
--v.tr. reproduce (text or diagrams) by this process.

Etymology

irreg. f. Gk mimeomai imitate: see -GRAPH

THESAURUS

mimeograph

Photostat, Xerox, albertype, book printing, bring out, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, clone, collotype, color printing, copy, ditto, double, dupe, duplicate, electronography, electrostatic printing, engrave, facsimile, get out, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, hectograph, history of printing, impress, imprint, issue, job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, manifold, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, multigraph, offset, offset lithography, onset, overprint, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, print, printing, printmaking, proof, prove, publication, publish, publishing, pull, pull a proof, put out, put to bed, put to press, quadruplicate, reduplicate, reissue, relief printing, replicate, reprint, reproduce, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, run, run off, sheetwork, stamp, stat, stencil, strike, three-color printing, trace, transcribe, triplicate, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

ROGET THESAURUS

mimeograph

Imitation

N imitation, copying, transcription, repetition, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction, mimeograph, xerox, facsimile, reprint, offprint, mockery, mimicry, simulation, impersonation, personation, representation, semblance, copy, assimilation, paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, celluloid, imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime, copyist, copycat, plagiarist, pirate, imitated, mock, mimic, modelled after, molded on, paraphrastic, literal, imitative, secondhand, imitable, aping, apish, mimicking, literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot, exactly, precisely, like master like man, like - but oh! how different!, genius borrows nobly, pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks, quotation confesses inferiority, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.