mimeograph machine
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈmaɪmiəˌɡræf məˈʃin/
- Archaic
:
máquina mimeográfica
- Before the advent of modern photocopiers, the mimeograph machine was a common tool for duplicating documents.
Examples
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It is as if one were to visit a country in which the hosts happily believed themselves on the cutting edge of technological innovation and, in support of this belief, proudly displayed a rotary-dial phone, a manual typewriter, and a mimeograph machine.
Academic text (2002) -
Casualties included a water cooler, two mimeograph machines and Rufus McBride, a deaf janitor.
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Are you familiar with the mimeograph machine?
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Are you familiar with the mimeograph machine?
Fiction book (1994) -
Most women brought their articles to the Southern Conference Educational Fund office mimeograph machine ready.
Blog text (27) -
We introduced ourselves at the mimeograph machine, running off copies of our feminist resolutions.
Blog text (27) -
Inside the busy office, Paul types, and Conrad cranks a mimeograph machine.
Fiction book (1994) -
The language in which that content is expressed is best reserved, I feel, for hastily mimeographed pamphlets one hands out on the street (or would, were one a wild-eyed activist with a mimeograph machine).
Blog text (8) -
In the small office, everyone took turns using the mimeograph machine to make copies of their reports.
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The teacher used the mimeograph machine to print handouts for her students each week.
Synonyms
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1.0
A machine that makes text or pictures on paper from a computer
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1.0
A machine that makes copies of documents onto paper
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3.1
A machine that makes many copies of pages with text or pictures on paper
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9.8
A machine that makes paper copies by pushing ink through a stencil
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4.9
A machine that makes exact copies of papers and drawings
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9.9
A machine that makes copies of pages by printing through a stencil or a copy made this way
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2.8
A machine that puts words and pictures onto paper
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9.9
A machine often used in offices and schools that makes copies by pressing ink through a stencil
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4.9
A machine that copies a document and sends it by phone
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7.6
A machine that makes prints by using a flat stone or metal plate to hold ink
A machine that copies papers by pressing ink through a stencil
How Modern
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is fully compositional: 'mimeograph' names the copying/stencil device and 'machine' signals a mechanical device, so the meaning 'a machine that mimeographs (makes copies by pressing ink through a stencil)' is directly derivable from the parts. Although the term is somewhat archaic or rare, the noun+noun compounding pattern is standard and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Mimeograph machine comes from an old copying method: someone cut a thin stencil with the text, laid it on paper, and pushed ink through the stencil so each sheet got the same words. That's why the name means a machine for 'making copies' before photocopiers.