mimeograph

American  

[mim-ee-uh-graf, -grahf] / ˈmɪm i əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /

noun

1. a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.

2. a copy made from a mimeograph.

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verb (used with object)

1. to duplicate (something) by means of a mimeograph.

Mimeograph British  

/ ˈmɪmɪəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf /

noun

1. an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed

2. a copy produced by this machine

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verb

1. to print copies from (a prepared stencil) using this machine

Other Word Forms

• unmimeographed adjective

Etymology

Origin of mimeograph

Formerly a trademark

Compare meaning

How does mimeograph compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• Ditto machine vs. mimeograph

Example Sentences

We wrote a story about it for our mimeographed junior high school newspaper; at first the teacher didn’t believe we had really talked with him.

From The Wall Street Journal

For the first half of the 20th century, this need was addressed—sort of—via mimeographs and ditto machines.

From The Wall Street Journal

Before World, a biweekly, was launched in 1986, religious periodicals were often cheaply mimeographed and filled with church news.

From New York Times

Democrats were essentially broke ahead of the 1972 campaign and dependent on an old mimeograph machine.

From Los Angeles Times

Steinem remembers the days in which hand-outs and calls to action were made on a primitive duplicating machine called a mimeograph.

From BBC

Related Words

• clone
• copy
• duplicate
• emulate
• imitate
• mirror
• photocopy
• portray
• print
• recreate
• reflect
• repeat
• replicate
• reprint