from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One that sets written material into type; a typesetter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A person who sets type; a typesetter.
- n. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who composes or sets in order.
- n. One who sets type and arranges it for use.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In printing, one who sets types; a type-setter.
- n. A composing or type-setting machine.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. one who sets written material into type
But as early as the twelfth century we find the term compositor used by Johannes
Carlyles writing was so bad that one compositor is said to have left Edinburgh in order to get away from the job of setting it up.
Is this the man who would have equality amongst all his fellow-creatures, and who calls a compositor a printer's devil?
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) technology for controlling some of the look of a Web site; and a feature called the compositor that handles complicated layout circumstances better.
The one compositor who could read Carlyle's manuscript had died, and it became necessary for him to have someone who would make fair copies of his writings for the press.
Steve is a book designer, page compositor and layout artist and you can find examples of his work at Tiano Design.
Mr. Shepard acts first as something of a compositor, assembling facts and background in a rapid-fire first-person voice.
A Michael Nyman (Londres, 1944) se le conoce mundialmente por su faceta de compositor.
Should he sprinkle his pages with sympathetic adjectives, so many to the paragraph, as the country compositor sprinkles commas?
Sir Paul Best of the Best of musicica - Bas, acord, Piano, singer compositor