Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
copying-press .
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Examples
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He provided a room barely big enough for all of us to fit into, let alone sit and discuss the situation: a storage room for his office supplies and copying-machine equipment.
Out of Sync Lance Bass 2007
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He provided a room barely big enough for all of us to fit into, let alone sit and discuss the situation: a storage room for his office supplies and copying-machine equipment.
Out of Sync Lance Bass 2007
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A printing-press was in constant operation, and in the use of a copying-machine the little community was three-quarters of a century ahead of the London public offices.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883
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Of the same period as the copying-machine is his invention of a drying-machine for cloth, consisting of three cylinders of copper over which the cloth must turn over and under while cylinders are filled with steam, the cloth to be alternately wound off and on the two wooden rollers, by which means it will pass over three cylinders in succession.
James Watt Andrew Carnegie 1877
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The drying-machine is no unfit companion to the copying-machine.
James Watt Andrew Carnegie 1877
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A new micrometer, a dividing screw, a new surveying-quadrant, problems for clearing the observed distance of the moon from a star of the effects of refraction and parallax, a drawing-machine, a copying-machine for sculpture -- anything and everything he used or saw seems immediately to have been subjected to the question: "Cannot this be improved?" usually with a response in the affirmative.
James Watt Andrew Carnegie 1877
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The mornings are dark in these offices towards the end of December, sometimes indeed the lamps are lit till after ten o'clock; consequently Sebastien did not happen to notice the pressure of the copying-machine upon the paper.
Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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If you go snowshoeing or cross-country skiing in the next few weeks, look for what appear to be patches of pepper or copying-machine toner on the snow.
Freep.com - RSS 2010
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a photographic copying-machine; lunch-rooms and rest-rooms for the staff;
A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick
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