Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Management or operation of a printing press.
- noun The matter printed by such a press.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The working or management of a printing-press; also, any other work of a press-room relating to ink or impression on a press: in opposition to composition, or that branch of printing which is confined to preparing types for the press.
- noun In joinery, cabinet-work of a number of successive veneers crossing grain, and united by glue, heat, and pressure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done.
- noun Work done on or by a press.
- noun (Metal Work) Act or process of pressing or drawing with dies or presses; also, the product of such work.
- noun (Cabinetmaking) Work consisting of a series of cross-grained veneers united by glue, heat, and pressure.
- noun Pottery produced by pressing clay into molds.
- noun Chiefly Theat. Cant The work of a press agent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The operation of a
printing press - noun
printed material
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Examples
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At my first admission into this printing-house I took to working at press, imagining I felt a want of the bodily exercise I had been us'd to in America, where presswork is mix'd with composing.
Archive 2006-04-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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The more impressive the presswork, the more legitimate we assume the source to be.
Introduction 1989
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Who cut the blocks -- that is exactly what Chinaman -- we do not know, nor do we know who handled the presswork, but it is logical to assume that the whole process took place under the supervision of the fathers of San Gabriel, Juan Cobo if work had begun before 1592, and certainly
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951
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It is fitting, then, that the same publishers should issue the book now under our hand, a fine specimen of the printer's art in paper, presswork, binding, and illustrations.
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In external beauty, in paper, type, presswork, and binding, and all that belongs to solid and elegant book-making, the volume is a fine specimen of German skill, good taste, and thoroughness.
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In external beauty, in paper, type, presswork, and binding, and all that belongs to solid and elegant book-making, the volume is a fine specimen of German skill, good taste, and thoroughness.
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A knowledge of platen presswork does not qualify a man to run a cylinder press, and as a rule the platen pressman who wants to change must serve some time as a cylinder pressfeeder and cylinder pressman's assistant.
Wage Earning and Education Rufus Rolla Lutz
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In closing this Foreword, the printer desires to emphasize the fact that the typesetting and presswork of this book are entirely his own work.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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In this way it would be possible to secure classes of from 60 to 100 boys each for such trades as composition and presswork.
Wage Earning and Education Rufus Rolla Lutz
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The battered type, wood-pulp paper, and poor presswork, now so commonly used in the cheap editions of books and periodicals, are often injurious to the eyesight.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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