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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPOSING STICK

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Composing stick is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMPOSING STICK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

composing stick

Composing stick

In letterpress printing and typesetting, a composing stick is a tool used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines which are then transferred to a galley before being locked into a forme and printed. Many composing sticks have one adjustable end allowing the length of the lines and consequent width of the page or column to be set, with spaces and quadrats of different sizes being used to make up the exact width. Early composing sticks often had a fixed measure, as did many used in setting type for newspapers, which were fixed to the width of a standard column, when newspapers were still composed by hand. The compositor takes the pieces of type from the boxes of the type case and places them in the composing stick, working from left to right and placing the letters upside-down with the nick to the top. Early composing sticks were made of wood, but later iron, brass, steel, aluminium, pewter and other metals were used. Wooden composing sticks continued to made in large sizes, for setting wood letter and other large sizes of type for display, into the nineteenth century.

Definition of composing stick in the English dictionary

The definition of composing stick in the dictionary is a metal holder of adjustable width in which a compositor sets a line of type at a time by hand; now rarely used.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPOSING STICK

composedness
composer
composing room
composite
composite colour signal
composite motion
composite number
composite photograph
composite school
composite vote
compositely
compositeness
composition
composition of forces
composition rubber
compositional
compositionally
compositive
compositor
compositous

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPOSING STICK

breadstick
broomstick
candlestick
chapstick
control stick
dipstick
drumstick
gear stick
hockey stick
incense stick
joystick
lipstick
matchstick
nightstick
nonstick
slapstick
stick
tick
walking stick
wrong end of the stick
yardstick

Synonyms and antonyms of composing stick in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «composing stick» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPOSING STICK

Find out the translation of composing stick to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of composing stick from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «composing stick» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

组成棒
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

componedor
570 millions of speakers

English

composing stick
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रचना छड़ी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يؤلف عصا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сочинять палки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vara de composição
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্টিক রচনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

composteur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengarang tongkat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Winkelhaken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

組版ステッキ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구성 스틱
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nulis tongkat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sáng tác thanh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குச்சி உருவாக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काठी तयार करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kumpas
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

compositoio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

komponowania kij
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

складати палки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stick de compunere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνθέτοντας stick
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

zethaak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

komponera pinne
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

komponere stick
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of composing stick

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPOSING STICK»

The term «composing stick» is used very little and occupies the 181.263 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPOSING STICK» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPOSING STICK»

Discover the use of composing stick in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to composing stick and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Guide to Knowledge
6. BOURGEOIS. The compositor, commonly works standing, and usually places himself against the middle of the case. The instrument in which the letters are set is called a composing stick, which consists of a long plate of brass or iron, on the  ...
William Pinnock, 1833
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Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: The Politics of Provincial ...
To set type, two basic tools were used: the job case and the composing stick. The job case was a shallow, wooden tray divided into numerous compartments, each containing the "sorts" for a particular character or space. The composing stick ...
Steven James Keillor, 1987
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Inland Printer/American Lithographer
312 North May Street Chicago, Illinois Remember— The New Eagle Composing Stick is self adjusting to the point system of type bodies; — that a form set by several compositors all using Eagle Sticks will have lines of unvarying length ; — that ...
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The Inland Printer
HISTORY OF COMPOSING-STICKS. BY WILLIAM suns. HE composing-stick is a very necessary appliance, yet from a general viewpoint it has received but little consideration, in fact, none at all compared to its impor— tance. It is the most ...
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Official gazette of the United States Patent Office
The combination of a line-carrier having a line-assembling or composing channel or space, means for delivering types to one end of said channel or space, a yielding composing stick or feed bar operating to successively push the types into  ...
United States. Patent Office, 1895
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Filed Feb. 9, 1912. Serial No. 676,504. (CI. 101—130.) Pi r):nDOOOOO:0 1. The combination of a composing stick having a type- receiving slot at one end thereof, a type-distributing slot at the other end in alinement with the receiving slot, and ...
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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. ...
The arrangements for receiving the types as they slide from off the inclined plane a consist of a composing-stick, h, in the form of a trough closed at the lower end, and mounted in a position opposite the end of the narrow channel previously ...
United States. Patent Office, 1876
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Specimen Book and Price List of Printing Material
Screw Composing Stick. Buckeye Composing Stick. Crover Composing Stick. 6 iDch, 2 inches deep. 6 inch, -04 '• " . 6 inch, 2J5 " " 8 inch, 2 10 inch, 2 Screw. . »0 75 . OSS . 0 85 . 0 95 1 15 Clamp. . . . $1 20 I 30 1 50 NEWSPAPER STICKS.
Palmer & Rey, San Francisco, 1892
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Compositors' Tools and Materials: A Primer of Information ...
It has been up to the present the most popular style of composing stick for general use. Parts of a Composing Stick. The parts of a composing stick are the base, or bottom plate, upon which the bottom of the type rests in composing ; the back ...
‎1918
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Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History
and compositor) and in the material tools of the press: the composing stick set for the running heads is “common to all compositors” and is supplied by the master printer. And each compositor has an individual composing stick set to the ...
Joseph A. Dane, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPOSING STICK»

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From the studio of: Text on a screen
The effect is tactile and handmade -- because it is handmade, each letter hand-placed in a composing stick and then locked in the bed of the ... «NolaVie, May 15»
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Why typography still matters in a digital age: Larry Wilson
... cursor from dozens of fonts in your Mac, another thing entirely to set type by hand, inserting letters into a composing stick to create a snug line ... «LA Daily News, Mar 15»
3
Photos: Inking the Type
Mr. Barrett arranges movable type on a composing stick, a step in the printing process. Julie Bidwell for The Wall Street Journal … Type is ... «Wall Street Journal, Nov 14»
4
Body snatchers create unsolved historic mystery in Preston cemetery
... all secrets are revealed, the nail in the proverbial coffin of this story belongs to a man wielding a chisel rather than a printer's composing stick, ... «Bluff Country Reader, Oct 14»
5
Print relic
... a significant improvement over the previous industry standard, i.e., manual, letter-by-letter typesetting using a composing stick and drawers of ... «LA Observed, Oct 14»
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It makes you ink...
It so happens that the composing stick that Burmeister was using belonged to Grocott's Mail compositor, H. E. Griffiths in the 1800s. The design ... «Grocott's Mail Online, Aug 14»
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News For All: How the Immigrant Experience Shaped American Media
The earliest artifact is a composing stick and lead type used by Benjamin Franklin to publish his newspapers. But the important historical point ... «Smithsonian, Jul 14»
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Newseum exhibit 'One Nation with News for All' highlights minority …
... All,” created in partnership with the Smithsonian's “Our American Journey” project, features relics from Benjamin Franklin's composing stick to ... «Washington Post, May 14»
9
Jet Magazine Goes 100 Percent Digital
Also on display in 'News for All' are a composing stick and lead type used by Benjamin Franklin to publish his newspapers, Memphis Free ... «The Root, May 14»
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New Exhibit Opening May 16 at the Newseum Explores the Role of …
Also on display in "News for All" are a composing stick and lead type used by Benjamin Franklin to publish his newspapers, Memphis Free ... «PR Newswire, Apr 14»

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