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
There, linotype machines would turn those paragraphs into rows of metal type.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
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
The linotype machine consists of a keyboard not unlike that of the typewriter, which actuates a magazine containing matrices or countersunk letter molds, together with a casting mechanism for producing lines or bars of words.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer
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
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
Previous technological advances have rendered moot a number of jobs that were once essential to the journalism industry, such as Linotype operator.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2019
“Setting type” was once done on big, loud Linotype machines; now it can be done on an iPhone.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2018
When I reached the part about the Linotype machine incident, I expected Frankie to laugh in disbelief.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
By combining their method with his, Coxhead hopes to make Vari-Typing as cheap as linotyping.
From Time Magazine Archive
This merging of the processes of teletyping and linotyping is not new.
From Time Magazine Archive
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