linotype

¹

[ lahy-nuh-tahyp ]

verb

, Printing.

, lin·o·typed, lin·o·typ·ing.

1. to typeset on a Linotype machine.

Linotype

²

[ 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.

Linotype

/ ˈlaɪnəʊˌtaɪp /

noun

1. 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

Other Words From

• lino·typer lino·typist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of linotype¹

Linotype

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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The Linotype, pronounced by London Engineering "the most wonderful machine of the century," was not the product of a day.

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