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Meanings of compositor in English

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One who sets written material into type.

        compositor
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        Examples for "setter"
        Examples for "setter"
        1
        Turnbull's address follows a similar scene setter on Tuesday by Bill Shorten.
        The Guardian
        2
        They heard the setter barking-notin anger, but in a casual way.
        Night gate
        3
        He later lost a fantastic five-setter against the eventual champion, Rafael Nadal.
        The Guardian
        4
        Her father, a drinking & gambling man, worked as a job setter.
        The new yorker
        5
        But it was that Gordon setter there that reminded me of her.
        The Rim of the Desert
        1
        For most people proofreading is basically checking spellings and omissions by the typesetter.
        Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press
        2
        This machine is a type-casting machine as well as a typesetter.
        Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
        3
        Con Devlin, who has died aged 79, was a master printer and typesetter.
        The Irish Times
        4
        The typesetter must have read an 'a' as an 'n'.
        Persia Revisited
        5
        Christer will need a couple of days for the layout, the typesetter, say, a week.
        The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
        1
        A German typographer who watched the industry go from press to digital.
        Radio NZ
        2
        Curator of City Gallery Wellington's exhibition of works by typographer Joseph Churchward.
        Radio NZ
        3
        His father was a typographer and designer of books.
        The new yorker
        4
        I expected James Ballantyne to dinner as he proposed, but the worthy typographer appeared not.
        The Journal of Sir Walter Scott / From the Original Manuscript a...
        5
        It has been thoroughly and appropriately illustrated, and is a very elegant specimen of the typographer's art.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 / A Mag...
        Usage of compositor in English
        1
        You discerned the imitation of the type, you acknowledged the inferior compositor.
        Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2
        2
        It's been decided to make him compositor in a new printing place.
        Mother
        3
        Back in our offices, a skilled copytaker typed our words for the compositor.
        The Guardian
        4
        Mr. Sims was the compositor, and an Englishman; he put me through tenderly.
        The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
        5
        Perhaps the first desire of the born writer is to be a compositor.
        Young Lives
        6
        How the job compositor handles business stationery, programs and miscellaneous work.
        Division of Words / Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends ...
        7
        I suppose that the compositor was left to himself, as usual.
        Lucasta
        8
        An additional compositor was retained for some days on this account.
        Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
        9
        Nikolay, I'll teach you typesetting, and you'll work as a compositor for us.
        Mother
        10
        Jonas' father was a compositor- atall ,lank ,hollow-eyedman with a bad cough.
        The Soul of a Child
        11
        That's to show it isn't the intelligent compositor's mistake, you see!
        Hilda Lessways
        12
        There was a compositor right behind me in the queue.
        The Irish Times
        13
        The chief impediment to the progress of the work, however, was Short, the compositor.
        A Girl Among the Anarchists
        14
        The iPhone seems to do everything; ARKit is the compositor.
        Wired
        15
        If the copy is hard to read, the compositor will set but few pages.
        Punctuation / A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctua...
        16
        Soon after Gluck and his one compositor carried out the forms to be machined.
        Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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        compositor
        Compositor through the time
        Compositor across language varieties
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