English noun: printer |
| 1. | printer (person) someone whose occupation is printing |
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| Synonyms | pressman |
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| Broader (hypernym) | skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | compositor, proofreader, reader, setter, typesetter, typographer |
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| Instance hyponym | Benjamin Franklin, Bodoni, Bradford, Caxton, Franklin, Frederic Goudy, Frederic William Goudy, Gianbattista Bodoni, Goudy, Gutenberg, Johann Gutenberg, Johannes Gutenberg, William Bradford, William Caxton |
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| 2. | printer (artifact) (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing |
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| Broader (hypernym) | computer peripheral, peripheral, peripheral device, printer, printing machine |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | dot matrix printer, dot printer, matrix printer |
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| Domain category | computer science, computing |
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| 3. | printer (artifact) a machine that prints |
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| Synonyms | printing machine |
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| Broader (hypernym) | machine |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | addressing machine, Addressograph, character printer, character-at-a-time printer, electrostatic printer, impact printer, line printer, line-at-a-time printer, page printer, page-at-a-time printer, printer, serial printer, thermal printer, typesetting machine |
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