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Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun printer has 3 senses

1. printer(n = noun.person) pressman - someone whose occupation is printing;
is a kind of skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
has particulars: compositor, setter, typesetter, typographer, proofreader, reader, bodoni, gianbattista bodoni, bradford, william bradford, caxton, william caxton, benjamin franklin, franklin, frederic goudy, frederic william goudy, goudy, gutenberg, johann gutenberg, johannes gutenberg
Derived forms verb print₁, verb print₄

2. printer(n = noun.artifact) - (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing;
is a kind of computer peripheral, peripheral, peripheral device, printer, printing machine
has particulars: dot matrix printer, dot printer, matrix printer
Derived forms verb print₁, verb print₄

3. printer(n = noun.artifact) printing machine - a machine that prints;
is a kind of machine
has particulars: addressing machine, addressograph, character-at-a-time printer, character printer, serial printer, electrostatic printer, impact printer, line-at-a-time printer, line printer, page-at-a-time printer, page printer, printer, thermal printer, typesetting machine
Derived forms verb print₁, verb print₄

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

printer, n.

One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman. [1913 Webster]

Printer's devil, Printer's gauge. See under Devil, and Gauge. -- Printer's ink. See Printing ink, below.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

printer, n.
1 a person who prints books, magazines, advertising matter, etc.
2 the owner of a printing business.
3 a device that prints, esp. as part of a computer system.

Idiom:
printer's devil an errand-boy in a printer's office. printer's mark a device used as a printer's trade mark. printer's pie = PIE(3) n.

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Printing

N printing, block printing, type-printing, plate printing, (engraving), the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder, printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys.

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Pos: Noun, Verb (transitive)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun ink has 2 senses

1. ink(n = noun.substance) - a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing;
is a kind of liquid
has particulars: indelible ink, drawing ink, india ink, magnetic ink, printer's ink, printing ink, writing ink
Derived forms verb ink₃, adjective inky₁

2. ink(n = noun.body) - dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods;
is a kind of bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance

Verb ink has 3 senses

1. ink(v = verb.communication) - append one's signature to; "They inked the contract"
is one way to sign
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2. ink(v = verb.change) - mark, coat, cover, or stain with ink; "he inked his finger"
is one way to mark
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

3. ink(v = verb.change) - fill with ink; "ink a pen"
is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Derived form noun ink₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

ink, n.

The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs. [1913 Webster]

ink, n. [OE. enke, inke, OF. enque, F. encre, L. encaustum the purple red ink with which the Roman emperors signed their edicts, Gr. , fr. burnt in, encaustic, fr. to burn in. See Encaustic, Caustic.].

1. A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing. [1913 Webster]
"Make there a prick with ink." [1913 Webster]
"Deformed monsters, foul and black as ink." [1913 Webster]

2. A pigment. See India ink, under India. [1913 Webster]
" Ordinarily, black ink is made from nutgalls and a solution of some salt of iron, and consists essentially of a tannate or gallate of iron; sometimes indigo sulphate, or other coloring matter, is added. Other black inks contain potassium chromate, and extract of logwood, salts of vanadium, etc. Blue ink is usually a solution of Prussian blue. Red ink was formerly made from carmine (cochineal), Brazil wood, etc., but potassium eosin is now used. Also red, blue, violet, and yellow inks are largely made from aniline dyes. Indelible ink is usually a weak solution of silver nitrate, but carbon in the form of lampblack or India ink, salts of molybdenum, vanadium, etc., are also used. Sympathetic inks may be made of milk, salts of cobalt, etc. See Sympathetic ink (below)." [1913 Webster]

Copying ink, a peculiar ink used for writings of which copies by impression are to be taken. -- Ink bag (Zoöl.), an ink sac. -- Ink berry. (Bot.) (a) A shrub of the Holly family (Ilex glabra), found in sandy grounds along the coast from New England to Florida, and producing a small black berry. (b) The West Indian indigo berry. See Indigo. -- Ink plant (Bot.), a New Zealand shrub (Coriaria thymifolia), the berries of which yield a juice which forms an ink. -- Ink powder, a powder from which ink is made by solution. -- Ink sac (Zoöl.), an organ, found in most cephalopods, containing an inky fluid which can be ejected from a duct opening at the base of the siphon. The fluid serves to cloud the water, and enable these animals to escape from their enemies. See Illust. of Dibranchiata. -- Printer's ink, or Printing ink. See under Printing. -- Sympathetic ink, a writing fluid of such a nature that what is written remains invisible till the action of a reagent on the characters makes it visible.

ink, v. t.

To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

ink, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a coloured fluid used for writing with a pen, marking with a rubber stamp, etc. b a thick paste used in printing, duplicating, in ball-point pens, etc.
2 Zool. a black liquid ejected by a cuttlefish, octopus, etc. to confuse a predator.
--v.tr.
1 (usu. foll. by in, over, etc.) mark with ink.
2 cover (type etc.) with ink before printing.
3 apply ink to.
4 (as inked adj.) Austral. sl. drunk.

Idiom:
ink-blot test = RORSCHACH TEST. ink-cap any fungus of the genus Coprinus. ink-horn hist. a small portable horn container for ink. ink out obliterate with ink. ink-pad an ink-soaked pad, usu. in a box, used for inking a rubber stamp etc. ink-well a pot for ink usu. housed in a hole in a desk.

Derivative:
inker n.

Etymology:
ME enke, inke f. OF enque f. LL encau(s)tum f. Gk egkauston purple ink used by Roman emperors for signature (as EN-(2), CAUSTIC)

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Blackness

N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.