com·pos·i·tor

(kəm-pŏz′ĭ-tər)

One that sets written material into type; a typesetter.

[Middle English compositur, one who composes, settler of disputes, from Anglo-Norman compositour, from Latin, writer, compiler, from compōnere, composit-, to put together; see component.]

com·pos′i·to′ri·al (-tôr′ē-əl) adj.

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compositor

(kəmˈpɒzɪtə)

(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing a person who sets and corrects type and generally assembles text and illustrations for printing. Sometimes shortened to: comp

compositorial adj

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com•pos•i•tor

(kəmˈpɒz ɪ tər)

n.

a person who sets the type or text for printing.

[1560–70; < Latin: one who composes]

com•pos`i•to′ri•al (-ˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-) adj.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

compositor - one who sets written material into type

setter, typesetter, typographer

pressman, printer - someone whose occupation is printing

Translations

compositore

compositor

[kəmˈpɒzɪtəʳ] N → cajista mf

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compositor

[kəmˈpɒzɪtə^r] n → compositeur/trice m/f

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compositor

n (Typ) → (Schrift)setzer(in) m(f)

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compositor

[kəmˈpɒzɪtəʳ] n (Typ) → compositore m

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The affair ended in our going to the State capital, where my father found work as a reporter of legislative proceedings for one of the daily journals, and I was taken into the office as a compositor. In this way I came into living contact with literature again, and the daydreams began once more over the familiar cases of type.

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Honest and hearty was Charles's dislike, and the past spread itself out very clearly before him; hatred is a skilful compositor. As if they were heads in a note-book, he ran through all the incidents of the Schlegels' campaign: the attempt to compromise his brother, his mother's legacy, his father's marriage, the introduction of the furniture, the unpacking of the same.

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Most of it was in blank, but the solitary compositor who did the thing had amused himself by making a grotesque scheme of ad- vertisement stereo on the back page.

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A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

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The curses to which the General gave a low utterance, as soon as Rebecca and her conqueror had quitted him, were so deep, that I am sure no compositor would venture to print them were they written down.

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"Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction!

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Here, too, is a curious little work upon the influence of a trade upon the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, corkcutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers.

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There was indeed the sound of shouting in the street, and a little group of compositors and pressmen was forming in the hall below and nerving itself to action.

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Doug Fisher, 81, from Rumney, started working as an apprentice compositor on the Echo at Havelock Street, Cardiff in 1953.

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The 28-yearold was educated at St Mary's RC School, Stirling, and served an apprenticeship as a compositor before going to work in Edinburgh.

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