zinco

British  

/ ˈzɪŋkəʊ /

noun

1. short for zincograph

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Example Sentences

Dieter Schenk, 50, is the managing director of Zinco GmbH, a Swabian company that installs roof gardens atop buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal

Throughout, there are wittily pragmatic, original descriptions of minerals, gases, and metals, as in this description of zinc: “Zinc, zinco, Zink: laundry tubs are made of it, it’s an element that doesn’t say much to the imagination, it’s gray and its salts are colorless, it’s not toxic, it doesn’t provide gaudy chromatic reactions—in other words, it’s a boring element.”

From The New Yorker

“You live in Zinco,” he said, referring to the corrugated metal that constitutes many Bedouin walls.

From New York Times

Zinco, zing′kō, n. a familiar abbreviation for zincograph.—v.i. to produce a plate for printing by the zincographic process.

From Project Gutenberg

Half-tone zinco and similar processes have brought down the expenses entailed by reproductions in colour-work, so as to render an undertaking of this kind much more feasible than it was in the middle of the last half-century.

From Project Gutenberg