laminator
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- noun
- /ˈlæməˌneɪtər/
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laminadora
- The new laminator makes it easy to preserve important documents without damage.
Examples
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The Teacher Resource Room has a large selection of die cuts, a paper cutter, and a laminator.
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These normal cheap laminators don't have these take up spools.
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I saw a laminator on Amazon for $17 yesterday, and when I went back to order it, it was sold out!
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You know, I went to a factory about a year ago that had five German laminators and one Chinese laminator.
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We've got a strider or printer or scales for sending stuff, a laminator because duh, yeah, loads to do still.
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They were early adopters of the use of the motion picture projector, the tape recorder/player, the camera, the overhead projector, the laminator, and the copy machines.
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Examples of sharing range from using Creeds's large-format laminator when creating displays and storytime materials to using their student laptops and charger cart when providing hands-on financial literacy classes for teens.
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The teacher used a laminator to protect the colorful posters for the school event.
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In the art room, students can use the laminator to make their drawings last longer.
Synonyms
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A machine that covers paper or cards with a thin plastic layer to protect them
How Automatic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Laminator comes from the Latin root lamina, meaning 'thin plate' or 'layer', with the ending -ator meaning 'one who'. You can see the same root in laminate, so a laminator is literally 'one who adds layers', which explains a machine or person that covers items with a protective sheet.