单词 | phototype |
释义 | phototypen. 1. Printing. A printing plate or block produced by a photographic process (as photosetting). Also: the process by which such a plate is produced; a picture, etc., printed from it. Formerly also: †a kind of carbon printing process invented by M. Joubert (obsolete). Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [noun] > photogravure or phototypography > a print heliograph1853 phototype1854 photo-etching1872 photo-intaglio1875 autogravure1885 duotone1907 duotype1913 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [noun] > photogravure or phototypography > plate phototype1854 photoglyph1858 1854 N. Amer. Rev. July 236 A phototype of the human countenance seldom satisfies, and this for two mathematical reasons. 1859 Sat. Rev. 26 Feb. 242/1 The term Phototypes being reserved for such as yield impressions that may be taken off from a flat surface by a mechanical method of printing, analogous to that of the lithographer or of the anastatic printer. 1867 Athenæum 20 July 90/1 The process generally employed has been that of lithography from the phototype. 1888 Academy 16 June 405/1 The phototypes are frequently too dark and sombre. 1965 Economist 22 May (Press Ahead Suppl.) p. xvi/2 Two photocomposers were installed..to make phototype composition negatives of the latest local news. 1978 Amer. Notes & Queries Mar. 113/1 The economics of publishing have resulted in the use of typescript, instead of the traditional monotype or linotype (or even modern phototype) in many of the smaller reference works. 2002 Electronic Publishing (Nexis) 1 Dec. 48 You have seen the transition from letterpress to litho, from linecasting to phototype. 2. Medicine. Frequently with numeral. Any of several skin types distinguished by their degree of sensitivity to sunlight. ΚΠ 1988 Anticancer Res. 8 775 A significant difference [in interleukin production] was found between phototype I and phototype IV. 2004 Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week (Nexis) 7 Aug. 991 Six volunteers of skin phototype I-III (white) were exposed. Derivatives photoˈtypic adj. now rare relating to or of the nature of a phototype (sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [adjective] > photogravure heliographic1851 photoglyphic1852 phototypic1859 photogravure1879 photo-etched1894 Ben Day1912 1859 Sat. Rev. 22 Jan. 98/1 Each of the phototypic methods at present before the world..seeks to attain this object by acting upon one and the same fundamental chemical fact. 1973 Renaissance Q. 26 477 The paper, translated into Latin, serves as the introductory essay to the phototypic edition. photoˈtypically adv. [compare post-classical Latin phototypice (1883 or earlier, frequently in the subtitles of books)] now rare by means of a phototype (sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [adverb] > printed by specific process logographically1783 stereotypically1803 phototypically1891 1891 Catholic World July 630 The famous Greek manuscript of the New Testament..is now being phototypically fac-similied by order of Pope Leo XIII. 1935 Bull. School Oriental Stud. 8 52 Its commentary..is here reproduced with great technical skill phototypically, a transcription in Tibetan and Roman characters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). phototypev. Printing. Now rare. transitive. To reproduce by means of a phototype. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > process [verb (transitive)] > photogravure phototype1855 photogravure1884 photo-etch1900 1855 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 200 The countenance but once beheld by the former in miraculous vision on the way to Damascus was no less phototyped on his soul. 1940 Classical Philol. 35 82 A handsome book; it is phototyped and remarkably distinct throughout. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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