单词 | makeready |
释义 | makereadyn.ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] > ready money or cash ready money1429 argent-contentc1540 bitec1555 present money1572 chink1580 cash1600 bit1607 real money1675 fob?c1680 Darby1682 ready1684 blunt1819 makeready1830 hardshells1840 ante1843 spot cash1855 call money1856 necessary1897 1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. ii. 23 The captain..brought his men to the ‘make ready’, and they were about to present. 1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 712/2 Men might have been seen creeping along the trails with guns on the make-ready, expecting a war-whoop from behind every clump of bushes. 2. Printing. The final preparation and adjustment for printing; material prepared in this way or used in making ready; spec. a sheet on which overlays are pasted for printing a particular forme of type. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > [noun] > make-ready or pre-make-ready makeready1887 pre-makeready1948 1887 Sci. Amer. 25 June 405/1 It is a safe rule to keep the make-ready of every type job until the job has been distributed. 1907 Newspaper Owner 9 Feb. 8/1 (heading) Web-printed half-tones without make-ready. 1915 Southward's Mod. Printing (ed. 3) II. iii. 39 As a preventive against slurring through baggy tympans as much of the make-ready as is practicable should be done at the back of the forme. 1937 Life 26 July 4/1 A color printing press..is shown here, above in diagram showing printing position and below in photograph showing the inking rollers moved away from plate cylinders for ‘make-ready’. 1946 Notes & Queries 9 Mar. 93/1 Most early books are marked by bad paper, brownish ink, poor typography, lack of care in ‘make-ready’, and crude illustrations. 1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes ii. 24 Makeready can be mechanical..with the 3 M makeready machine. 1978 W. Chamberlain Thames & Hudson Man. Wood Engraving v. 120 Another way to reduce printing pressure on a specific area is by the use of an overlay or ‘make-ready’. 1993 National (Toronto, Ont.) Aug.–Sept. (advt.) Electronic makeready—for example, to mask sensitive information. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1830 |
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