linotype
verb
to typeset on a Linotype machine.
linotype
1 American
[lahy-nuh-tahyp]
/ ˈlaɪ nəˌtaɪp /
verb
Printing.
linotyped,
linotyping
Linotype
2
American
[lahy-nuh-tahyp]
/ ˈlaɪ nəˌtaɪp /
Trademark.
Linotype
British
/ ˈlaɪnəʊˌtaɪp /
noun
-
a typesetting machine, operated by a keyboard, that casts an entire line on one solid slug of metal
-
type produced by such a machine
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of linotype
see origin at Linotype
Example Sentences
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Along the way, “Empire of Ink” almost wistfully acknowledges the steady rise of labor unions and new technologies: steam-powered presses, the telegraph and, ultimately, the linotype.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
His mother was a schoolteacher and his father operated a linotype when he wasn’t unemployed.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
As of 1880, the linotype machine was invented, which also made printing much cheaper and more simple than it had been.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
This room is likely a holdover from the building’s printing plant days — perhaps an office, or a lounge, situated just above the linotype machines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2018
The introduction of the linotype machines, rapid and multiple presses, and other mechanical devices, which vastly increase the output of every shop that adopts them.
From Commercialism and Journalism by Hamilton Holt
My newspaper career began at age 16 as a printer’s devil — cleaning presses, melting Linotype lead — for the weekly Ojai Valley News.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
The skills required to turn hot lead into letters on a Linotype machine or to position a strip of cold type on a grid board were easily transferrable.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
It was slow to add computers and late in transitioning from printing opinions in the court’s basement on Linotype machines, which used metal type, to electronic printing in the early 1980s.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
“Setting type” was once done on big, loud Linotype machines; now it can be done on an iPhone.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2018
I returned from the deli to find Raizel standing at my workstation, studying the Linotype machine.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
This merging of the processes of teletyping and linotyping is not new.
From Time Magazine Archive
By combining their method with his, Coxhead hopes to make Vari-Typing as cheap as linotyping.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the old days publishers had met such crises by hustling scab compositors into town, and paying reporters extra to double in linotyping.
From Time Magazine Archive
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