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compositor Definition

com·posi·tor (kəm päzət ər)

noun

a person who sets matter for printing, esp. a typesetter

Etymology: L, arranger, disposer: see composite

compositor Synonyms

compositor

n.

printer, typesetter, typographer, keyboarder, makeup man, Linotype operator, compo*; see also printer.

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.