Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that sets written material into type; a compositor or printer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who prints with or from types, or by typographic process.
- noun A beetle of the genus Bostrychus, as B. typographicus: so called from the characteristic markings its larva makes on the bark of trees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A printer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person skilled in
typography - noun a
typewriter - noun a kind of
bark beetle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who sets written material into type
Etymologies
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Indranil Mukherjee/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Website sciencemuseum.org states that the first typewriter was invented in the U.S. by William Burt in 1830, though the machine was known as a typographer.
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In fact, till the Stationers 'Company made the sale of books or printed matter a separate industry, the typographer was his own binder and vendor.
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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[Footnote 1: The word "typographer" is used to differentiate between the compositor and the printer, the latter being the one who does the presswork.]
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Two American devices, one of William Burt in 1829, for a "typographer," and another of Charles Thurber, of Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1843, may also be passed over.
The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906
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In 1829, William Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., patented the "typographer," believed to be the first typewriter.
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William Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., patented the "typographer," believed to be the first typewriter.
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It starts out as a simply folded poetry magazine with illustrations and evolves into something else entirely, with entire issues devoted to a single collaboration between a poet and a typographer.
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It starts out as a simply folded poetry magazine with illustrations and evolves into something else entirely, with entire issues devoted to a single collaboration between a poet and a typographer.
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The typographer who sets this page well, aaathough it may not please him.
jorge luis borges | the just « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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(Soundbite of bell) SAGAL: A stone carver, a typographer and a television producer were among the recipients of this year's blank grants.
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