Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An apparatus for making duplicate copies of letters, circulars, etc., written on sensitized paper with a pen of peculiar make, or with a typewriter. The first copy is used as an impression-plate, and inked with an inking-roller to produce subsequent copies.
- n. A peristyle of circular form.
Wiktionary
- n. architecture A circular group of columns without a core.
- n. A device used to make copies of a drawing or writing, via small punctures made in the outline
- v. To use such a wheel and puncture device to make copies.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.
WordNet 3.0
- v. print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil
- n. a writing implement with a small toothed wheel that cuts small holes in a stencil
Examples
“Inside the crowded office, a young man cranks the handle of a cyclostyle machine printing publicity pamphlets and he clicks his tongue as the paper jams again.”
“You can have students make this, or you can produce it with a hectograph or cyclostyle or other copying device.”
“I am black but comely at this moment: because the cyclostyle has blacked me.”
“(Written with a cyclostyle.) "LIZE'S AVONTUREN IN HET WONDERLAND.”
“There is also a form written with a cyclostyle.] "DOUBLETS.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cyclostyle’.
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Cyclo
List of words containing cylco-, -cyclo-, &c.
cyclophosphamide, cycloheptatriene, cycloalkene, cyclooctadiene, cycloolefin, cyclooctatetraene, cyclobutene, cyclopropene, cyclotrigermene, cyclotrigermenium, cyclopropenium, cyclopropenoid and 90 more...
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Jesse's random
bathos, dragoman, tessellated, escutcheon, eikon, mondaine, basilisk, ciborium, rubric, machicolation, jet, defalcation and 198 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Columniation
A list of terms pertaining to columns employed in architecture.
hypostyle, peristyle, columniation, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, base, shaft, capital, entablature, architrave, frieze and 78 more...
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unknown to numerous
manifold, numerous, multiplied, complicated, continuum, copy, graph, cyclostyle, polygraph, hectograph, mimeograph, multiply and 35 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Name, a Novel
Odd words and odder juxtapositions of words from Name, a Novel by Toadex Hobogrammathon. Some would consider these dystopic "junk phrases", and that's precisely why I like them. Full text at the Po...
corkoid Spanish m..., flock of fried an..., like a bad dram, unsuspectedly Mal..., sudatory ministerium, dice-coal praemunire, praemunire, teocalli, sclaff, labiovelar weathe..., bigeneric loss ad..., good time unrestr... and 1413 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Style
A family of terms containing the string *styl that suggest a sense of something columnar or pointed.
Words containing styl- denoting a mode of expression or fashion are excluded from t...monimostylic, streptostylic, styloid, hypostyle, stylet, stylographic, stylobate, peristyle, stylites, metrostyle, peristylium, anastylosis and 32 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cyclostyle.
jmjarmstrong JM has a fondness for cyclostyle generated newsletters - you never get too many of them. Nov 16, 2009
chained_bear "... and then there were the five daily maps to prepare, copy on the cyclostyle (an early duplicating process using stencil and ink), and distribute to the main local railroads, newspapers, and hotels."
—David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 109 Nov 11, 2008
knitandpurl "The woman is looking at a plan held in her left hand. It's just a sheet of paper, whose still visible creases attest to its having been folded in four, fixed by a paperclip to a thick cyclostyled volume — the terms of co-ownership relating to the flat this woman is about to visit."
-- Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos, p 4 May 31, 2008