| 单词 | plate matter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplate matter plate matter n. Printing (now historical) newspaper text on a stereotype plate ready for printing, used by central news agencies, etc., to supply finished articles to local journals. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > stereotype or syndicated matter patent outsides1871 patent insides1879 plate matter1881 boilerplate1884 1881 Fort Madison (Iowa) Democrat 10 Aug. ‘Fair Play’ calls it the ‘Chicago’ P. D. [i.e. Plain Dealer] on account of its being stuffed each week with from fifteen to twenty columns of stale plate matter from Chicago. 1907 J. L. Given Making Newspaper 230 Plate matter is a boon to the country editor. 1943 H. Johnson Other Side Main Street ix. 104 This sketch, besides appearing in the Pioneer Press, went on the wires of the Associated Press and was furnished as plate matter to numerous smalltown newspapers. 1960 G. Myers Hist. Bigotry xvii. 172 Aside from news items chosen or doctored to suit the purpose, the main contents were columns of ‘plate’ matter defaming the Catholic church and its prelates. < as lemmas |
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