What's the difference between compositor and out?

Compositor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who composes or sets in order.
  • (n.) One who sets type and arranges it for use.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 'We do have a tendency to come to the same place from totally different directions, have a massive scrap, and then something comes out of it,' says Davenport cheerfully, as we head off for a tour of the edit suites, where a large team of editors and compositors is layering blue-screen images onto footage recorded in nearby Warwickshire woodland.
  • (2) Our findings indicate that printing pressroom workers reported skin condition symptoms at a significantly higher rate than did the compositor referent group.
  • (3) Skull identification by electronic photo-composition can, with the help of a video-animation compositor, be further developed beyond the pure superprojection technique into an animated picture difference image.
  • (4) Consistent with this hypothesis, 16% of pressmen and no compositors were found to have primarily low-grade albuminuria detectable by dipstick.
  • (5) A bunch of bananas to former Fleet Street compositor, Mick Clayton, who helped the prince with the press, but made him laugh by asking: “Can I check your union card first?” Ba-doom tish!
  • (6) We surveyed 215 pressroom workers and 34 compositors at a large northeastern US newspaper printing facility.

Out


Definition:

  • (a.) In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to in or into. The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. (see Out of, below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc.
  • (a.) Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual, place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the proprietor is out, his team was taken out.
  • (a.) Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out.
  • (a.) Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out.
  • (a.) Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest.
  • (a.) Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation.
  • (a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office; -- generally in the plural.
  • (n.) A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; -- chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In.
  • (n.) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be out; to eject; to expel.
  • (v. t.) To come out with; to make known.
  • (v. t.) To give out; to dispose of; to sell.
  • (v. i.) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
  • (interj.) Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; -- with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off.

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