单词 | jellygraph |
释义 | jellygraphn. An appliance used for multiplying copies of writing, etc., of which the essential part is a sheet of jelly. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > duplicating processes > [noun] > copying-machine rolling press1780 copying-press1785 copying-machine1803 letterpress1839 manifold letter writer1840 multigraph1878 chromograph1880 cyclostyle1883 graph1884 Roneo1901 jellygraph1919 Multilith1933 1919 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. Almanac 615/1 Jellygraph mixture for enlarging easel. 1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying iii. 58 They ran an unofficial monthly paper..duplicated with a jellygraph. 1972 W. A. Pantin Oxf. Life iv. 52 We can trace the belated triumph of the typewriter..over the older methods of manuscript, jellygraph, and printed fly-sheet. Derivatives ˈjellygraph v. (transitive) to copy with a jellygraph. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > duplicating processes > [verb (transitive)] > duplicate by machine graph1880 hectograph1887 chromograph1889 jellygraph1904 cyclostyle1928 1904 Sat. Rev. 9 Jan. 40 It is better ‘jellygraphing’ questions for some one else's form than [etc.]. ˈjellygraphed adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > duplicating processes > [adjective] > duplicated by machine cyclostyled1897 jellygraphed1900 multigraphed1915 multilithed1936 1900 H. G. Wells Love & Mr. Lewisham xxv. 241 A letter of atrociously jellygraphed advices from Messrs. Danks & Wimborne. 1902 P. G. Wodehouse Pothunters xii. 182 On Sunday we jellygraph it—it'll have to be a jellygraphed number this time. 1911 A. R. Hinks Astronomy (1919) iv. 113 A ‘jellygraphed’ post-card. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1900 |
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