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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky