compositor
compositor
Definition
com·posi·tor (kəm päz′ət ər)
noun
a person who sets matter for printing, esp. a typesetter
Etymology: L, arranger, disposer: see composite
compositor
Synonyms
compositor
n.
compositor
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- fantasy: Adams: In your 1992 book Correspondence, your character calls herself a compositor of fantasies.
Converse of object
- have: Most have compositors ' names written in, indicating that the printer had to make do without fair copies.
- set: A thousand compositors set out the same combination of letters for their newspapers.
- use: Consequently we need to look more closely at the question of the number of compositors used in Cx2.
Adjective modifier
- female: It was during this period of expansion that Clark's claimed the distinction of having the first female compositor in Britain.
- different: This page does however explain the possible reasons for differences in spelling, for example due to the different compositors.
- first: It was during this period of expansion that Clark's claimed the distinction of having the first female compositor in Britain.
- good: I The best compositor in the story, I thing, is Bruce Springfield, the Boss.
Modifies a noun
- attribution: For the Folio, the compositor attributions are taken from William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion.
- template: You have just created your own Smart Compositor template.
Noun used with modifier
- apprentice: Nigel started work as an apprentice compositor in the printing trade and retrained many times in a rapidly changing industry.
- image: The image compositor requires a matte, or alpha channel in the image for some operations.
- parent: We create the parent Compositor that will contain the background image, ripple effect, Java text, and the spaceship compositor.
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