flatbed press — noun a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type • Syn: ↑cylinder press • Hypernyms: ↑press, ↑printing press … Useful english dictionary
flatbed — [flat′bed΄] adj. ☆ 1. designating or of a truck, trailer, etc. having a bed or platform without sides or stakes 2. Printing designating or of a press having a plane or horizontal printing surface: cf. ROTARY PRESS n. ☆ 1. a flatbed truck, trailer … English World dictionary
press — v 1. force, push, drive, ram, shove, elbow; impel, propel, thrust, trundle; cram, jam, crush, pinch. 2. compress, squeeze, condense, clamp; cramp, compact, concentrate, roll into a ball; strain, strangle, constrict, constringe. 3. weigh upon,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
flatbed — I. adjective Date: 1892 having a horizontal bed on which the work rests < a flatbed printing press > < a flatbed scanner > II. noun Date: 1944 a motortruck or trailer with a body in the form of a platform or shallow box … New Collegiate Dictionary
press — I. /prɛs / (say pres) verb (pressed or, Archaic, prest, pressing) –verb (t) 1. to act upon with weight or force. 2. to move by weight or force in a certain direction or into a certain position. 3. to compress or squeeze, as to alter in shape or… …
press — Synonyms and related words: AP, Associated Press, Fleet Street, Reuters, UPI, United Press International, accelerate, advice, adviser, advocate, annex, announcer, annunciator, apply pressure, army, ask, aspirator, assault, assemble, assert,… … Moby Thesaurus
press — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. crush, throng, crowd; pressure, urgency; closet, wardrobe, repository; assemblage; newspapers, news media, fifth estate. See printing, publication, communication, receptacle. v. crush, push, iron,… … English dictionary for students
rotary press — Print. a printing press in which the type or plates to be printed are fastened upon a rotating cylinder and are impressed on a continuous roll of moving paper. [1925 30] * * * Printing press that prints on paper passing between a supporting… … Universalium
printing press — a machine, as a cylinder press or rotary press, for printing on paper or the like from type, plates, etc. [1580 90] * * * ▪ printing machine by which images are transferred to paper by means of ink. Although movable type, as well as… … Universalium
cylinder press — noun a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type • Syn: ↑flatbed press • Hypernyms: ↑press, ↑printing press * * * noun : a printing press in which a rotating cylinder rolls… … Useful english dictionary
