compositor
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compositors
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Origin of compositor
1325–75 for earlier sense “referee, arbiter”; 1560–70 for current sense; Middle English < Latin: one who composes, equivalent to composi-, variant stem of compōnere ( see component, composite) + -tor -tor
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So that’s where having a very, very good compositor comes in, turning that algorithm-generated face into the person you want it to be.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2020
Kalinoski’s work is what’s known as post production and compositor work.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2015
On leaving Harrow county school, he was apprenticed as a compositor and in 1939 enlisted in the RAF, serving as a fitter/armourer.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2011
Some even hire typists to operate the typewriter-keyboard punching machines at half the salary Linotype or Intertype compositors get, use one compositor to supervise as many as five tape-fed typesetting machines.
From Time Magazine Archive
So I open the book and read slowly:—Gérard Duval, compositor.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
The original artwork that Ms. Severin labored over, often under intense deadlines, was then sent to compositors and eventually printed on cheap, coarse paper to be sold to children for 10 cents.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018
IF YOU imagine there’s nothing less exciting than watching paint dry, imagine the hordes who poured into middle-brow entertainment centres called dime museums in the 1880s to watch compositors set type by hand.
From Economist ● Mar. 30, 2018
Etaoin shrdlu is an expression well known to newspaper compositors and little-known to readers.
From BBC ● May 3, 2013
I also need the money to hire some skilled compositors to help with the visuals effects on the show.
From Forbes ● Dec. 7, 2012
In Berlin the pressmen struck, but not the compositors; one newspaper could appear, another not.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various
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