printer
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈprɪntər/
:
impresor
- I am a printer.
- businessmen who hired printers
- printers and publishers
- artists and printers
But he was very famous as a printer.
- But he was very famous as a printer.
- And so you order PFP goods and then you send them off to your printer who will do the printing for you.
- And I recruited this guy who works for a printer that did my printing and he said, oh, I'd love to stand there and be your target.
- He is a person that has travel around with him to make him picture books with a printer of positive news about himself so that they can keep him reined in.
Examples
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Lake News had to be at the printer by noon on Wednesday.
Fiction book (2000) -
The printer messed up the invitations for my Sweet Sixteen.
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Joe used to be a printer.
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- So why did you become a printer?
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I took it to the printer's like I always do.
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Jesse's grandfather, Dominic, a retired printer, had been reluctant to allow his younger son to return to the family home.
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In this time of political turbulence, printers who gambled on the side of the patriots profited economically.
Academic text (1991) -
Joe's father worked as a printer in a local newspaper for over twenty years.
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His son Deepak followed in his footsteps and now works as a printer at the family business.
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After finishing his training, he became a skilled printer and started producing high-quality materials.
Synonyms
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8.2
A person who operates a printing press for newspapers or books
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8.2
A person who makes prints using a flat stone or metal plate
A woman who operates machines that print newspapers or books
A person who runs a printing press to put ink on paper
Compounds
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2.8
A machine that prints words and pictures by spraying tiny drops of ink onto paper
- Archaic
A printer that uses heat to make tiny ink bubbles and prints them on paper
- Archaic
A fast, noisy machine that hits metal letters against paper to make many pages of text
- Specialized
A printer that prints one letter or number at a time instead of a whole line
- Archaic
A printer that makes letters by hitting a wheel with petal-like parts against an ink ribbon
- Archaic
A fast machine that makes whole lines of letters and numbers using a rotating drum
- Specialized
A printer that uses static electricity to move toner onto paper
- Archaic
A machine that prints a whole line at once by hitting paper with a moving bar
- Archaic
A machine used with computers that puts a whole line of text on paper at once
- Archaic
A printer that makes letters and pictures by hitting an ink ribbon against paper
- Archaic
A machine that puts letters or numbers on paper one at a time using a serial port
- Archaic
A printer that makes letters and pictures by hitting paper with small needles
- Archaic
A machine that prints letters and numbers as small dots using thin wires that hit an ink ribbon
- Archaic
A printer that makes letters from dots by striking paper with thin metal wires
- Specialized
A machine like a photocopier or laser printer that makes pages with toner
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Printer comes from the verb print plus -er, meaning 'one who does something'. In the past a printer was the person who ran the printing press and made books and newspapers, which is why the word still means a worker who produces printed material.