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单词 hot metal
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Definition of hot metal in English:

hot metal

noun
  • A typesetting technique in which type is newly made each time from molten metal, cast by a composing machine.

    in the old days of hot metal
    as modifier when hot-metal type gave way to filmsetting
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For those who recall the Imperial typewriter, the copy-takers and slugs of type set in hot metal, it is the next stage in the ongoing media revolution.
    • For nearly a century, the text to be printed was cast in hot metal, using monotype to set single characters or linotype to set text line by line.
    • Keith Cordery, regional pre-press manager for Newsquest until the end of 2000, started work at The Gazette in 1958 at the age of 15 as an apprentice compositor in the hot metal age.
    • A display charts the history of the Wiltshire Times and includes equipment used in the hot metal printing process when the paper was printed in Trowbridge until November 1986.
    • Witnesses later commented that hot-metal sparks, similar to a welder's cutting torch came from the tailpipe in a long, blue flame.
    • In another basement space the demented, clacking linotype machines stamped out our stories in hot metal while their grey-faced operators somehow stayed noisily blithe.
    • The agency started using computers back in the 1960s when such innovations seemed light years away from the hot metal British press.
    • When Joan Edison was farewelled from The Daily Telegraph's sub-editors desk last week after many, many years' sterling service, her colleagues revived a practice rarely seen since the demise of hot-metal printing.
    • Third from the right in the picture is stereotyper Pat Kneafsey who took the impressions of the chased hot-metal pages on to asbestos
    • This was in the days of hot metal Linotype when, to remove a comma at page-proof stage, was a costly business.
    • It sounds like the Victorian era when I talk about it now, but I was an indentured apprentice and I was in there at the death of hot metal and I still think that a Linotype machine is a more amazing creation than a computer.
    • When I arrived there in 1979 the journal was set in hot metal, there wasn't a computer to be seen, and it took three months for copies of the journal to reach Australia.
    • Harry Kirkpatrick, a former Observer director, said: ‘Bob was one of the great hot metal composing room overseers in the newspaper industry.’
 
 

Definition of hot metal in US English:

hot metal

noun
  • A typesetting technique in which type is newly made each time from molten metal, cast by a composing machine.

    in the old days of hot metal
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For nearly a century, the text to be printed was cast in hot metal, using monotype to set single characters or linotype to set text line by line.
    • When I arrived there in 1979 the journal was set in hot metal, there wasn't a computer to be seen, and it took three months for copies of the journal to reach Australia.
    • Harry Kirkpatrick, a former Observer director, said: ‘Bob was one of the great hot metal composing room overseers in the newspaper industry.’
    • The agency started using computers back in the 1960s when such innovations seemed light years away from the hot metal British press.
    • Keith Cordery, regional pre-press manager for Newsquest until the end of 2000, started work at The Gazette in 1958 at the age of 15 as an apprentice compositor in the hot metal age.
    • A display charts the history of the Wiltshire Times and includes equipment used in the hot metal printing process when the paper was printed in Trowbridge until November 1986.
    • In another basement space the demented, clacking linotype machines stamped out our stories in hot metal while their grey-faced operators somehow stayed noisily blithe.
    • When Joan Edison was farewelled from The Daily Telegraph's sub-editors desk last week after many, many years' sterling service, her colleagues revived a practice rarely seen since the demise of hot-metal printing.
    • For those who recall the Imperial typewriter, the copy-takers and slugs of type set in hot metal, it is the next stage in the ongoing media revolution.
    • Third from the right in the picture is stereotyper Pat Kneafsey who took the impressions of the chased hot-metal pages on to asbestos
    • Witnesses later commented that hot-metal sparks, similar to a welder's cutting torch came from the tailpipe in a long, blue flame.
    • It sounds like the Victorian era when I talk about it now, but I was an indentured apprentice and I was in there at the death of hot metal and I still think that a Linotype machine is a more amazing creation than a computer.
    • This was in the days of hot metal Linotype when, to remove a comma at page-proof stage, was a costly business.
 
 
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