单词 | high to paper |
释义 | > as lemmashigh to paper d. Printing. Having a specified or standard height to paper (distance from foot to face); (also, esp. in high to paper) having a greater such distance than that which is required. Cf. low to paper at low adj. 2d. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > composed type > [adjective] > projecting high1683 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 28 They [sc. head-sticks] are Quadrat high, straight, and of an equal thickness all the length. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 116/2 Bearer, is a Riglet made Letter high and fastned to the Frisket. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 243 Good Press-work will expose the defects, and shew where letters are cast either too high, or too low, to paper. 1834 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal (Cabinet Cycl.) III. vii. 126 The letters or types..are composed, or, as the printers term it, set up into a page in the ordinary manner, care being taken to use the high spaces and quadrats commonly employed in stereotyping. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 698/2 Spaces and quadrats were formerly only three-fourths of an inch in height; but, since electrotyping has become so common, they are almost invariably cut high, i.e., up to the shoulder of the type. 1916 Vocational Educ. Surv. Richmond, Va. (U.S. Bureau Labor Statistics) 111 Iron bearers, type high, are placed all around the type matter before the form is locked up. 2007 B. Moser Ashen Sky 39 The very precise blocks..are produced at the universal ‘type high’ measure—.918 inch—which allows the blocks to be locked up and printed with the type. < as lemmas |
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