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Blueblooded65 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

"Movable type of letterpress printing" and "Typecasting"

Can anyone tell me please what each of these is?
I did a small search but I couldn't find a clear explanation about them. I just found out that "movable type of letterpress" is by carving the letters and putting the inked letters beside each other on a paper to create a page.
  

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Movable type is the use of individual letters which are rearranged to make pages and then saved for another page after printing. Originally, the whole page was carved as a unit. Typecasting is choosing an actor that looks or acts like the character s/he is being cast as.

— Mister Micawber

  • Movable type is the use of individual letters which are rearranged to make pages and then saved for another page after printing.
  • Originally, the whole page was carved as a unit.
  • Typecasting is choosing an actor that looks or acts like the character s/he is being cast as.
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Movable type is the use of individual letters which are rearranged to make pages and then saved for another page after printing. Originally, the whole page was carved as a unit.

Typecasting is choosing an actor that looks or acts like the character s/he is being cast as.
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I mean the other meaning of "typecasting". As I didn't find it in internet too.The text is about the process of the invention of printing-press.
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blueblooded65 I mean the other meaning of "typecasting". As I didn't find it in internet too.The text is about the process of the invention of printing-press.
Few dictionaries seem to cover that definition, since it is an outmoded process. It is in the Shorter Oxford, which is not on line. In the old days, type (the individual letters, numerals, etc., t
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