printer

CEFRA2

/ˈpɹɪntə(ɹ)/

noun

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01
noun
A machine that produces text or images on paper.
02
noun
Extra detail
A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.

Examples

Click on the printer icon with the mouse.
Please replace the empty ink jet cartridge in the printer.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

[ˈpʰɹɪɾ̃ɚ]
/ˈpɹɪnɚ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

The operator of a printing press or the owner of a printing business; (metonymic) any printing business.
One who makes prints.

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In context

The printer needs paper.
IMPRINTED at London in Fleteſtrete by Thomas Berthelet, printer to the kynges highnes, the ſeconde of July, the yere of our lorde. M. DXLV. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum ſolum.
By the use of these keys in conjunction with the other keys, the operator has perfect control over the receiving printer at the distant station.

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The blank is out of paper, so I cannot print right now.

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Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

IMPRINTED at London in Fleteſtrete by Thomas Berthelet, printer to the kynges highnes, the ſeconde of July, the yere of our lorde. M. DXLV. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum ſolum.
1545 July 2, Thomas Elyot, A Preservative agaynste Deth, Imprinted at London in Fletestrete: By Thomas Berthelet, printer to the kynges highnes, →OCLC, colophon
Never one to waste an opportunity, he says now: "The low points? You can read about them in my forthcoming book! It's at the printers now.
2021 November 3, Adrian Shooter talks to Paul Clifton, “A lifetime of railway achievements”, in RAIL, number 943, page 34
The use of the Hughes type printer is extending on the main circuits, where speed of transmission is a great object; but it is highly improbable that it will ever be adopted, except on main circuits.
1872 February 24, “Telegraph Instruments”, in The Mechanics’ Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures, volume XCVI, London: Mechanics' Magazine Offices, 166, Fleet Street, and 85, Gracechurch Street, E.C., →OCLC, page 172, column 1
By the use of these keys in conjunction with the other keys, the operator has perfect control over the receiving printer at the distant station.
1903, “The Rowland Multiplex Printing Telegraph System”, in Telegraph Age. A Semi-monthly Journal Devoted to Telegraphy, volume XX, New York, N.Y.: J[ohn] B. Taltavall, →OCLC, page 461, column 1
For long distance messages, reports, etc., the use of the printer telegraph renders a highly satisfactory and efficient service, especially where the line circuits are derived through a composite or phantom circuit without the exclusive use of wires for this circuit. The Union Pacific recently installed a two-channel multiplex automatic printer on a simplexed circuit, thereby eliminating the necessity for at least one additional overland wire, and also speeding up the service and reducing the cost for each message.
1924, Railway Signaling and Communications, volume 17, number 1, Bristol, Conn.: Simmons-Boardman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 1

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Origin

noun

From print + -er.

Deep Dive

noun

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The blank— is out of paper, so I cannot print right now.

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noun

The blank is out of paper, so I cannot print right now.