单词 | stereotype |
释义 | stereotypen.adj. A. n. 1. The method or process of printing in which a solid plate of type-metal, cast from a papier-mâché or plaster mould taken from the surface of a forme of type, is used for printing from instead of the forme itself. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [noun] > others stereotype1800 typolithography1825 fluorography1840 glyphography1843 photoprocess1875 process work1881 recess printing1887 process engraving1889 screening1894 rotogravure1913 offset printing1915 thermography1928 electrography1953 flexography1954 recess1958 impact printing1966 1800 Ann. Reg. 1798 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 22/2 The celebrated Didot, the French printer, with a German, named Herman, have announced a new discovery in printing, which they term stereotype. 1809 European Mag. 55 19 The prospectus of almost every work informs us, that the thing will be done in stereotype. 1816 Q. Rev. 15 345 The introducer of that mode of printing called Stereotype. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. xxii. 657 The invention of Stereotype, like that of Printing, is somewhat involved in mystery. 2. a. A stereotype plate. (In quot. 1817 transferred.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > blocks, plates, or transfers > [noun] > stereotype plates stereotype1799 stereo1823 plate1824 stereotype-block1859 autoplate1901 1799 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 2) I. 146 The tables..are printed with what they call stereotypes, the types in each page being soldered together into a solid mass. 1817 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 500 (note) An obelisk with engraved heiroglyphics upon it—a wooden or copper plate—a medal—are stereotypes. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stereotype, a solid page of metal cast from the letter-press. 1888 Times 7 Jan. 7/1 He seized the stereotypes and withdrew. b. In generalized sense. ΚΠ 1823 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. VI. 378/1 The mode of casting stereotype is sufficiently simple. 1823 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. VI. 378/1 A plate of stereotype does not require to be more than the seventh or eighth part of the thickness or height of the ordinary types. 3. figurative. a. Something continued or constantly repeated without change; a stereotyped phrase, formula, etc.; stereotyped diction or usage. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun] > something repeated overword?a1513 sanctus1594 reassumption1611 dixit1628 overcome?a1800 parrot cry1814 stereotype1850 repetend1874 parrot-echo1892 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > mechanical quality > writing or expression nominy?1746 stereotype1850 cliché1881 boilerplate1891 1850 W. H. Prescott in G. Ticknor Life W. H. Prescott (1864) 337 I told the Queen of the pleasure I had in finding myself in a land of friends instead of foreigners,—a sort of stereotype with me. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 91 The growth of brighter ideals..will go on, leaving even further and further behind them your dwarfed finality and leaden moveless stereotype. 1908 Q. Rev. July 5 The stereotype of school, newspaper and department prevails. b. A preconceived and oversimplified idea of the characteristics which typify a person, situation, etc.; an attitude based on such a preconception. Also, a person who appears to conform closely to the idea of a type. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > stereotype > [noun] cliché1895 stereotype1922 the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > stereotype > [noun] > person stereo1888 stereotype1922 1922 W. Lippman Public Opinion vi. 93 A stereotype may be so consistently and authoritatively transmitted in each generation from parent to child that it seems almost like a biological fact. 1935 G. W. Allport in C. Murchison Handbk. Social Psychol. xvii. 809 Attitudes which result in gross oversimplifications of experience and in prejudgements…are commonly called biases, prejudices, or stereotypes. 1948 D. Krech & R. S. Crutchfield Theory & Probl. Social Psychol. ii. v. 171 The concept of stereotype..refers to two different things. (1)..a tendency for a given belief to be widespread in a society... (2)..a tendency for a belief to be oversimplified in content and unresponsive to the objective facts. 1960 T. Hughes Lupercal 42 Who lived at the top end of our street Was a Mafeking stereotype, ageing. 1968 W. E. Lambert et al. in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. 487 American students of English-speaking backgrounds who are in the process of studying the French language have a generally negative set of stereotypes about the basic personality characteristics of French-speaking people. 1974 Howard Jrnl. 14 102 The stereotypes which society has of the offender, are quickly matched by stereotypes which many offenders create of society. 1981 Church Times 23 Oct. 9/1 The neatly dressed unmarried lady (never without handbag)..is definitely not the narrow stereotype our media would have us think she is. c. Zoology. A stereotyped action or series of actions performed by an animal (see stereotyped adj. c). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > that serves no purpose intention movement1950 stereotype1966 1966 R. A. Hinde Animal Behaviour xxiii. 389 In captivity animals often develop behaviour stereotypes or tics which are repeated monotonously. 1971 Sci. Amer. June 117/1 Although subordinate males had no chance to mate with hens at the display grounds, they did perform mock matings... Mounting a pile of dry cow manure or a log or simply squatting on the ground, they would go through the stereotype of mating actions: treading the object, fluttering their wings, lowering their tail and even in some cases ejaculating. B. adj. (Often undistinguishable from the attributive use of the noun.) 1. literal. Of an edition: Printed by the process described above in A. 1. Also used as an epithet of the process. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [adjective] > others stereotype1801 glyphographic1843 phototypographic1890 step-and-repeat1933 electrographic1942 electronographic1946 flexographic1952 photoset1959 screenless1980 1801 Philos. Mag. 10 268 The processes connected with letter-press-plate or stereotype printing. 1817 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 500 (note) At the present Epoch (1800), the art of Printing is become rather retrograde; or we should not hear so much of Stereotype editions. 1820 J. Milner Suppl. Mem. Eng. Catholics 243 A small stereotype edition of the New Testament. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 142 Earl Stanhope.. also made important improvements in the process of stereotype printing. 2. figurative. = stereotyped adj. b. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace > habitually used or stock standing1600 standard1724 stock1738 stereotype1824 stereotyped1849 stereotypic1884 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull > stale or mechanical vinnied1563 overworn1578 seta1616 stock1738 hackneyed1747 commonplace1801 stereotype1824 stereotyped1849 hacky1862 stereotypic1884 cliché1895 cliché-ridden1920 clichéd1925 1824 J. Morier Adventures Hajji Baba I. Introd. Epist. p. xxxiv It is an ingenious expression which I owe to you, sir, that the manners of the East are as it were stereotype. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. iii. 160 Cartels by the hundred: which he,..answers now always with a kind of stereotype formula. 1846 Hints on Husband-Catching 20 This same stereotype smile. 1848 Curwen Singing Introd. p. xx Thus is..singing made almost a hopeless thing by the stereotype faults of the Old Notation. 1895 Oracle Encycl. I. 561/1 The style began to assume a stereotype character. 1899 A. Gudeman in Class. Rev. XIII. 216/1 A veritable mosaic of stereotype ideas. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. stereotype art n. ΚΠ 1801 Philos. Mag. 10 277 If there would be an advantage in applying the stereotype art to books of rapid sale. stereotype metal n. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 51 The alloys called type metal, stereotype metal. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stereotype-metal. stereotype office n. ΚΠ 1804 J. Planta tr. J. A. Freylinghausen Abstr. Christian Relig. before title Standing Rules of The Stereotype Office. stereotype plate n. ΚΠ 1807 Monthly Mag. May 372/2 The expence of Stereotype plates..is not 20 l. per cent. of that of moveable type pages. 1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 339 A compound of tin and bismuth is employed in stereotype plates. b. stereotype-bookseller n. ΚΠ 1813 A. Wilson in Trans. Soc. Arts XXVIII. 321 Having resolved to unite the business of a Stereotype Bookseller to those of a Stereotype Manufacturer and Printer, I propose that [etc.]. stereotype-cast n. ΚΠ 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 325 The stereotype-cast is nearly as sharp as the original type. stereotype-founder n. ΚΠ 1813Stereotype manufacturer [see stereotype-bookseller n.]. 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 325 The stereotype-founder takes a copy of the entire mass of type in plaster of Paris. stereotype manufacturer n. ΚΠ 1813Stereotype manufacturer [see stereotype-bookseller n.]. stereotype printer n. ΚΠ 1813Stereotype printer [see stereotype-bookseller n.]. 1820 T. Hodgson Ess. Stereotype Printing 119 As a stereotype printer Mr. Wilson must ever rank amongst the most eminent. C2. stereotype-block n. (a) a stereotype plate; (b) a block of iron or wood on which a stereotype plate is fixed. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > blocks, plates, or transfers > [noun] > stereotype plates stereotype1799 stereo1823 plate1824 stereotype-block1859 autoplate1901 society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > blocks, plates, or transfers > [noun] > stereotype plates > block for mounting riser1818 stereotype-block1859 1859 R. Hunt Guide Mus. Pract. Geol. (ed. 2) 188 Stereotype Blocks of Fusible Metal. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stereotype-block, a block on which a stereotype is mounted to make it type-high. stereotype-press n. (a) a press for shaping and drying the mould in which a stereotype is cast; (b) a printing-press in which stereotypes are used. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > stereotype stereotype-press1805 society > communication > printing > type founding > type-founding equipment > [noun] > press for shaping mould stereotype-press1805 1805 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 250/2 The first production of the new stereotype press. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stereotype-press, a small press for use in the clay process [of stereotyping]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). stereotypev. 1. transitive. To cast a stereotype plate from (a forme of type); to prepare (literary matter) for printing by means of stereotypes. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > type founding > [verb (transitive)] > make plate stereotype1804 stereoglyph1857 stereomould1857 plate1907 1804 J. Planta tr. J. A. Freylinghausen Abstr. Christian Relig. (title page) The first book stereotyped by the new Process. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Entick). 1835 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1866) III. 74 I have nearly stereotyped the third volume of my Miscellanies. 1855 Doran Queens of Eng. II. x. 169 Early in 1798,..the first book was stereotyped in England. 1877 H. Spencer in Min. Evid. Copyright Comm. (1878) 258 I was sanguine enough when I began this series of books, to stereotype. 2. figurative. To fix or perpetuate in an unchanging form. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > make stable, establish [verb (transitive)] > in unchanging form stereotype1809 1809 A. Rees Cycl. (1819) XIII. at Engraving Vosterman..may be said at once to have successfully translated and stereotyped the great originals of those..painters [sc. Rubens and Vandyke]. 1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 401 The state-church stereotypes a system of faith. 1846 Eng. Rev. Sept. 150 Yet he proposes a measure which would stereotype heresy and schism for ever. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. ii. 73 Shakespeare and the Bible have stereotyped English. 1888 Tansley in Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 24 121/2 In flowers the colours are stereotyped and perpetuated by insect selection. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1799v.1804 |
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