compositor
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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
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 handwriting was scholarly but curiously legible, betraying the habit of a dabbler in strange words who printed rather than wrote, lest some playful compositor should invent a new and confounding philology.
From The House 'Round the Corner by Tracy, Louis
And with compositors setting 700-1,500 ems an hour, and an American newspaper of 1880 averaging about 75,000 ems of copy, typesetting was one of a newspaper’s biggest costs.
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
At least these compositors are honest about that.
From Washington Post
His accurate taste was shocked by little mechanical deficiencies—the carelessness of compositors and proofreaders—the impossibility of getting a Greek quotation set up correctly.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
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