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reportern. Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation; probably partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: French reportour , reporteur ; report v., -er suffix1. Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman reportour bearer (of a message) (14th cent.) and Middle French reporteur, repourteur person who makes a report, informer (15th cent.; < reporter report v. + -our , -eur -eur suffix), and partly < report v. + -er suffix1, probably partly after Middle French, French rapporteur rapporteur n. Compare post-classical Latin reportator (c1343, a1385 in British sources). I. Senses relating to the providing of information. 1. 1400 in F. C. Hingeston (1860) I. 37 (MED) Thu hast hadde fals messageres and fals reportoures of us touchyng this matere. 1553 T. Wilson 63 b That the reporter with more ease maie remember what he hath to saie. 1599 (1950) ii. vii. 122 The ouer hastie reporter of this blessed newes repaires with speed to Sir Thomas. 1686 A. Wood (1894) III. 191 These people..were the chief reporters that the universities were all papists. 1726 G. Shelvocke tr. Imperial Comm. in Pref. p. ix The malice and dishonest ways that are conceal'd in the breast of the reporter. 1767 T. Hull iii. 37 I will undergo any censure, rather than be the reporter of my own disgrace. 1837 H. Martineau II. 18 The reporters of this [mission] appear to be peculiarly imaginative. 1881 15 707 The reporter..saw shells of a species of oyster in the collections which was referred to as the ‘Portuguese’ oyster. a1931 E. I. Fripp (1938) I. §57. 374 Towards the end of supper some provocative remarks by Carew Raleigh—‘loose speeches’, Ironside (our reporter) informs us..—led to theology. 1994 48 2 Emlyn-Jones sees ‘unintended irony’ in Alkinoos' distinction between true and false reporters. society > communication > information > reporting > [noun] > reporter > specially appointed society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > receiver of reports on juvenile offenders 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity 125 In this Councell there is a President who is of great esteeme, he hath 2673 duckats yerely wages; eight Councellors, euerie one 1336 duckats and nine rials; two Procters Fiscall with the same wages; two Reporters, to either 267 duckats and foure rials. 1628 26 May 18 129 The report now made to be brought in writing by the reporters to morrow morning. 1766 W. Harris I. 375 Mr. Hollis, the reporter of the conferences, said, ‘that the lord chancellor did afterwards give him this explanation of the last clause’. 1796 Ld. Nelson 23 Aug. in (1845) II. 251 I am in great fear my reporter is taken. 1835 in W. Bell (1838) 853 An accountant, engineer, or other reporter, to whom a remit may hereafter be made by the Court. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ x The ‘reporter’ entered the Garrandilla gate, to give legal notice of the invading army of fleece-bearing locusts. 1905 8 Apr. 439 Sir Alexander—chief reporter on the Priministerial staff. 1968 c. 49 s. 36(1) For the purpose of arranging children's hearings and for the performance of such other functions in relation to the children's panel or to children's hearings as may be assigned to him by this Part of this Act, a local authority shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section, appoint an officer, whole-time or part-time, to be known as the reporter. 1994 R. M. Krulfeld in L. Fiol-Matta & M. Chamberlain 264 Each group appointed a reporter, who recorded and reported back to the entire class the several major points covered in that workshop. the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that starts or indicates prey 1895 12 Dec. 7/2 [Setters in America] When a point was obtained, and the birds were fairly located,..the dog took his master right back to where the covey still lay crouched... Such animals are called ‘reporters’. 1915 E. Hough x. 228 There are a few dogs in Norway which are known as reporters. They will leave the covey of the birds when found, go and locate the shooter and bring him back to the birds. 1916 Feb. 818/2 My first acquaintance with the reporter's accomplishment was while riding horseback across a sedge field one afternoon, in company with the dog's owner. the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [noun] > general chemical analysis > reporter group 1970 21 Mar. 1103/1 The method is based on the anisotropy of signals from the nitroxide radical which thus acts as a ‘reporter’ of molecular motions (for example, whether the spin label is in a region of free or unrestricted movement). 1989 264 829 This intracellular half-life was comparable with that described for similar residualizing labels that contain radioiodide as a reporter. 2006 103 11140/1 The combination of their brightness and pronounced red emission makes phytofluors potentially interesting reporters for single-molecule imaging and protein tracking applications in living cells. the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > narrator society > communication > information > reporting > [noun] > reporter c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 814 He wolde been oure gouernour And of oure tales Iuge and reportour [c1415 Lansd. reporture]. c1422 T. Hoccleve Dialogus (Durh.) l. 761 in (1970) i. 137 Ther-of was I noon Auctour; I nas in þat cas but a reportour Of folkes tales. a1460 tr. (Helm.) (1999) 21 A reportour othir a contreuer of talis. a1634 W. Austin (1635) 2 Saint Luke is the Reporter; and onely he of all the foure records this Story. 1991 New Ser. 41 565 It seems to me that Protesilaus affords a better analogue than the vintner, who professes (like Philostratus) to be merely the reporter of another man's account. society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > registrar or clerk > reporter 1611 R. Cotgrave Extrayeur de proces, a reporter, or Abridger, of Cases; a breuiate-maker. 1617 Act 15 Jas. I in R. Sanderson (1717) XVII. 27 Wee doe ordaine..that, for all times hereafter, there shall be twoe Persons..which shall be Reporters of the Law. a1626 F. Bacon Propos. Compil. Laws Eng. in (1730) IV. 6 It resteth but for your Majesty to appoint some..sound lawyers, with some honourable stipend, to be reporters for the time to come. 1741 T. Robinson v. 84 Judgment for the Conusant. Indeed the Reporter properly doubts whether the Conusance being for Part of the Rent only was good. 1798 21 Mar. (1851) 1289/1 The House ought to render the reporters as independent..as they could be. 1832 C. Babbage xxvi. 215 The speeches must be taken down by reporters. 1866 xxvii. 231 The reporter of the supreme court shall take the oath required by law. 1919 Sir J. Willison v. 118 This recalls the remark of a Hansard reporter when Mr. Blake was making a speech of four or five hours' duration. 1942 M. M. Knappen xix. 409 Sir James Dyer was another prominent Elizabethan reporter, and Coke himself was the greatest of the early compilers. 1991 D. G. Nieman ii. 45 The Supreme Court's reporter spelled his name incorrectly. 4. society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reporter 1776 11 Nov. 1/2 If the news-paper reporters do justice to the debates [in the House of Commons], and the speakers found their arguments on facts and conviction, all parties feel a loss in suppressing the immediate publication of such debates. 1813 2 213 Newspaper critics and reporters..have had a prodigious addition to their necessary employments. 1844 24 June 2/3 (advt.) An experienced practical printer..wishes to obtain an engagement as editor, reporter, pressreader or overseer. 1880 June 154/1 The enterprising reporter for the local column of a city newspaper who is solicitious that his matter should be spicy rather than elegant or refined. 1949 ‘J. Tey’ xii. 102 ‘He says he's a reporter,’ Lana said... ‘Oh, no!’ Bee said. ‘Not the Press. Not already.’ 1971 C. J. White iv. 30 At the scene of a disaster reporters would prowl around seeking sob stories. 2000 J. M. Gray 28 The reporter wanders the scene with a hand mike, scanning for potential talking heads. 1797 (title) The reporter, or the general observer. 1853 (title) St. Helens newspaper and midweek reporter. 1890 28 Feb. 145/2 Since 1874 it has been customary, according to the Oil, Paint, and Drug Reporter, to sort the Java quill bark into two classes, according to length. 1934 (title) Greenkeepers' reporter. 1956 (title) Surrey county reporter. 2002 J. C. Wharton ii. 47 ‘The Eclectics keep themselves alive by swallowing everything which happens to turn up,’ The Medical and Surgical Reporter commented, ‘until they have become like Macbeth's cauldron.’ †II. Senses relating to sound. 5. the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > cracker or squib 1688 No. 2362/3 Rockets, Runers on the Line, Wheels, Reporters,..with all manner of other Fire-works were discharged. society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol 1827 J. Barrington II. 36 Lord Castlecoote had a tolerable chance of becoming acquainted with my friend's reporters (a pet name for hair triggers). 1865 Aug. 166 In those days Irish gentlemen always carried their ‘reporters’ or pistols with them. Compounds C1. (In sense 4a.) 1889 ‘M. Twain’ ix. 109 It was my purpose..to start a newspaper... So I wanted to..be finding out what sort of reporter-material I might be able to rake together. 1921 R. C. Benchley xiii. 139 I spoke kindly to him..and soon, in true reporter fashion, had wormed his secret from him before he knew what I was really after. 1938 J. Thurber (2002) 287 You'll probably want to stick to Talk and reporter pieces. 1979 23 Feb. 4/3 Reid did perform well—albeit away from the cameras—in a number of impromptu reporter scrums at the conference. 1996 Apr.–May 13/3 (advt.) Travel Lite... Padded waist pouch... Sling Bag... Soft Wallet... Reporter Bag. 2003 17 Mar. 110/3 She had even joined the flatterers backstage in a moment of fanship with the diminutive master, before switching back to her reporter persona. 1834 New Ser. 1 392/2 Those reporter whelps, I'm told, play the deuce with a new member where they take a spite. 1894 G. B. Shaw 2 Dec. (1965) I. 464 Surely so fine a spirit could have been rescued from the reproach of being..an ignorantly contemptuous reporter-politician? 1947 L. Kirstein & B. Newhall 8 Then certain artists, primarily interested in the use of the camera, who had been made aware of the naïve, or at least half-consciously formulated journalistic approach, began to use the frank attitude of the reporter-photographer, but now with deliberate design. 1963 N. Marsh (1964) i. 26 Why've you got your knife into this reporter chap? 1973 C. Bonington xx. 276 A complete film team of cameraman, sound-recordist, reporter-director. 1976 27 Sept. 3/1 More than 70 Time correspondents, writers, reporter~researchers and editors set out to assess the South as it is today. 1978 W. F. Buckley ii. 15 One reporter-photographer from L'Humanité pressed for admittance. 1995 S. Fraser 216 Dante Ramos is a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. 2001 D. Brian 17 In his dual role of reporter-politician, Pulitzer had questioned Augustine's motives and asked who was financing him. 2004 C. O. Lynum xv. 197 When the film was developed, it was easy to see that the reporter-photographer had given the man a twenty dollar bill. 2008 (Nexis) 26 June My first post-NYSC monthly salary as a reporter-researcher 19 years ago was N530. 1964 M. Burr & D. E. Koshland in 52 1019 The environmentally sensitive group will be referred to as a ‘reporter’ group since it is designed to ‘report’ changes in its environment to an appropriate detector. 1975 14 1859 Criteria for fidelity of genome structure in reconstituted chromatin include binding of reporter molecules with specificity for the minor groove of DNA [etc.]. 1989 91 130/2 Our reporter protein is a bacterial chitinase..which has been cloned and expressed in plant cells under a variety of promoters. 1997 36 6896 Histidine constitutes a useful reporter group for subtle protein conformational fluctuations. 1998 152 793 A luciferase reporter plasmid containing the human IL-6 promoter region was significantly transcribed when transfected into the IL-6 high-producing clones. 2002 S. M. Dymecki et al. in K. Turksen xxiv. 312 The second critical step concerns choosing a reporter molecule that will best highlight the cell population under study. C3. 1984 32 191/2 A collection of..fragments from the genome..was obtained, and their relative promoter efficiencies were determined by assaying the activity of CAT, the reporter gene product. 1989 B. Alberts et al. (ed. 2) x. 565 A series of mutated versions of the enhancer sequence can be joined to a reporter gene whose product is easily measured, so that the effect of each mutation on transcription can be measured. 2007 9 Oct. (Washington Final ed.) d3/1 Another important variation is to tag a normal gene with a so-called reporter gene that causes a visible color change in all cells where the normal gene is switched on. Derivatives 1891 W. D. Howells xviii. 135 The Events had been in the management of a journalist,..who had thoroughly reporterized it in the worst sense. 1888 July 314 Our reporterized press is often truculently reckless of privacy and decency. 1919 Oct. 768/1 The reporterized spirit of our press. 1836 17 Dec. The circumstantial and reporter-like minuteness with which he enters into the public and private history of the actors. 1909 C. S. Peirce Let. 14 Mar. in R. B. Perry (1935) II. 440 So it is reported by my rather reporter-like memory. 2004 (Nexis) 25 Sept. b6 When I listen to my daughter's reporterlike inquiries, I'm reminded that when I enter the voting booth, I won't simply be casting a ballot for myself. society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reporter > position of society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > registrar or clerk > reporter > position of 1844 17 Oct. 6/3 The mortifying failures of the gentlemen of the Universities to obtain a vacant ‘this reportership’ on the Times, when there chances to be one. 1885 79 385/1 Mr. J. H. Fordham..retired from his reportership in the Rolls Court on the death of his father. 1963 C. P. Morrison xiii. 253 In those days the reportership was a coveted position. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1400 |
