Associations to the word «Linotype»

Wiktionary

LINOTYPE, noun. A form of typesetting machine in which a complete line of characters is set at once.
LINOTYPE, noun. The slug produced by such a machine, or matter composed in such lines.
LINOTYPE, verb. To prepare (printed matter) using a linotype machine.

Dictionary definition

LINOTYPE, noun. A typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats