Word Meanings - MULTIGRAPH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A combined rotary type-setting and printing machine for office use. The type is transferred semi-automatically by means of keys from a type-supply drum to a printing drum. The printing may be done by means of an inked ribbon to print "typewritten"

Additional info about word: MULTIGRAPH

A combined rotary type-setting and printing machine for office use. The type is transferred semi-automatically by means of keys from a type-supply drum to a printing drum. The printing may be done by means of an inked ribbon to print "typewritten" letters, or directly from inked type or a stereotype plate, as in a printing press.

Related words: (words related to MULTIGRAPH)

• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• PRINTLESS
  Making no imprint. Milton.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• INKSTONE
  A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• SETT
  See 3
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• INK
  The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
• PRINTA-BLE
  Worthy to be published.
• SETTER
  A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• PRINT
  To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers,
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• PRINTING IN
  A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• RIBBON
  See PL (more info) 1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes. 2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or
• INKING
  Supplying or covering with ink. Inking roller, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink over forms of type, copperplates, etc. -- Inking trough or table, a trough or table from which the inking roller receives its ink.
• INKFISH
  A cuttlefish. See Cuttlefish.
• CIRCUMROTARY; CIRCUMROTATORY
  turning, rolling, or whirling round.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• JINK
  1. To move quickly, esp. with a sudden turn; hence, to dodge; to escape by a quick turn; --obs. or dial., except as a hunting term in pig-sticking. 2. In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also,
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• TINKER
  A small mortar on the end of a staff. A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel. The silversides. A skate. (more info) his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BLINK-EYED
  Habitually winking. Marlowe.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• TRINKETER
  One who trinkets.
• UPSETTING
  Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• ENLINK
  To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.
• TYPESETTING
  The act or art of setting type.
• STINKWEED
  Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
• IMPRINT
  to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates,