linotype

[ lahy-nuh-tahyp ]

verb,lin·o·typed, lin·o·typ·ing.Printing.
  1. to typeset on a Linotype machine.

Origin of linotype

1
see origin at Linotype

Other words from linotype

  • lin·o·typ·er, lin·o·typ·ist, noun

Words Nearby linotype

Other definitions for Linotype (2 of 2)

Linotype
[ lahy-nuh-tahyp ]

Trademark.
  1. a brand of typesetting machine that casts solid lines of type from brass dies, or matrices, selected automatically by actuating a keyboard.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use linotype in a sentence

  • Ottmar Mergenthaler worked twenty years on the development of his linotype machine, and ten years thereafter in perfecting it.

  • The Mergenthaler linotype Company has paid out twenty millions of dollars in dividends in fourteen years.

  • Adopting the policy that only journeymen printers must operate the linotype machines, the union was able to meet the situation.

  • For Sam had installed a linotype, and Wilbur Cowan had patiently mastered its distracting intricacies.

    The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon Wilson
  • The linotype, pronounced by London Engineering "the most wonderful machine of the century," was not the product of a day.

British Dictionary definitions for Linotype

Linotype

/ (ˈlaɪnəʊˌtaɪp) /


noun
  1. trademark a typesetting machine, operated by a keyboard, that casts an entire line on one solid slug of metal

  2. type produced by such a machine

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012