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Synonyms for mimeograph


Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : mim-ee-uh-graf, -grahf
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɪm i əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf

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Définition of mimeograph

Origin :
  • 1889, "copying machine" (invented by Edison), from Greek mimeisthai "to mimic, represent, imitate, portray," in art, "to express by means of imitation," from mimos "mime" (see mime (n.)) + -graphos, from graphein "to write" (see -graphy). A proprietary name from 1903 to 1948. The verb meaning "to reproduce by means of a mimeograph" is first attested 1895. Related: Mimeographed; mimeographing.
  • As in reproduction : noun something duplicated; duplication
  • As in transcript : noun copy
  • As in reduplication : noun copy
  • As in replication : noun copy
  • As in simulacre : noun copy
  • As in simulacrum : noun copy
  • As in spawning : noun reproduction
  • As in copy : noun duplicate, imitation
  • As in reproduce : verb make more copies of
  • As in Xerox : verb copy
Example sentences :
  • What are the differences in a hectograph, a mimeograph and multigraph?
  • Extract from : « Mechanical Devices in the Home » by Edith Louise Allen
  • The mimeograph was the same idea in a totally different form.
  • Extract from : « Steam Steel and Electricity » by James W. Steele
  • He used to run a typewriter in college, and the convalescents could mimeograph it and sell it.
  • Extract from : « Love Stories » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • One would have thought that printing had never been invented, nor even the mimeograph.
  • Extract from : « Six Major Prophets » by Edwin Emery Slosson
  • So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877.
  • Extract from : « Edison, His Life and Inventions » by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

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