What's the difference between printer and ribbon?

Printer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (2) A computer program, computer-readable model-file and computer-based 3D printer can (in theory) encapsulate the expertise of a skilled machinist and deploy it on demand wherever a 3D printer is to be found.
  • (3) Final hard copy was produced by a laser printer and bound with both conventional and rapid new binding techniques.
  • (4) I know ***** ****** [name removed for legal reasons] is worried about a 3D printer falling into the wrong hands.
  • (5) Samsung's ML2160 monochrome laser printer, for example, costs about £50.
  • (6) We took all the feedback from users and put pencil to paper to create our consumer 3D printer built for speed and ease of use,” said Pettis.
  • (7) Though 3D printers might change the regulatory picture for firearms in years or decades, the regulatability of guns remains intact for now.
  • (8) Response The DfE ripped up the first draft, replacing it with technology-based programme that includes 3-D printers in secondary classrooms, while primary school pupils will design and test structures and circuits.
  • (9) Eighteen of the rotogravure printers and one of the referents were heavy drinkers of alcohol.
  • (10) According to the predetermined classification the values were computerized and printed out by a mosaic printer or by a coordinate-recorder as a profile graph or a perspective image.
  • (11) Waveforms stored by the computer may be output to a dot matrix printer to complement conventional strip-chart recorder output.
  • (12) Cue the day’s first SPR (silent printer rage): another four minutes eaten up by a printer refusing to be fooled by the off-on tactic.
  • (13) After apprenticing as a printer, he worked briefly as a journalist before training as a steamboat pilot, a career interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1861.
  • (14) Printers have come a long way since 1984 when Hewlett Packard introduced the ThinkJet , the firm's first personal inkjet printer grinding at a snail's pace of two pages a minute and priced at a whopping $495.
  • (15) The lowest ratings were received for some aspect of the printer or print-out, and portability.
  • (16) The team used a 3D printer to create polymer replicas of each vertebra, which were then put together to recreate the shape of Richard's spine during his life.
  • (17) Chocolate and other foods 3D-printed food is regularly in the news, with one of the hits of this year's CES show being the ChefJet 3D printer , which uses sugar and cocoa butter rather than plastics to create various sweet treats.
  • (18) Previously MakerBot offered a cloud-based design sharing service called Thingiverse, which allowed users to upload their designs and share them with a community and access them from anywhere with a MakerBot 3D printer.
  • (19) The Ekocycle Cube printer is being made by 3D Systems, the US-based manufacturer that announced Will.i.am as its chief creative officer in January this year.
  • (20) The information may be viewed on the computer terminal or recorded on the printer.

Ribbon


Definition:

  • (n.) A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.
  • (n.) A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.
  • (n.) Same as Rib-band.
  • (n.) Driving reins.
  • (n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
  • (n.) A silver.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The "hexagonal ribbon" model proposes that hexagonal profiles are true cross-sections of elongated hexagonal ribbons.
  • (2) Consequently, the insular ribbon effectively becomes a watershed arterial zone.
  • (3) The possible arrangements of molecules within the twisted ribbons have been deduced and are found to be fairly closely related.
  • (4) Description and differentiation of the ribbon shaped vascular muscle cells from cardiac muscle cells, and the potential for confusion of the two in older animals, was addressed.
  • (5) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
  • (6) Differentiated ribbon synapses are found after 8 days in vitro, the time at which they normally appear in situ.
  • (7) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
  • (8) When negatively stained with uranyl acetate, LPSI was ribbon-like but LPSII exhibited hexagonal lattice structures.
  • (9) synaptic ribbon (SR) and synaptic spherule (SS) numbers, was explored in 6 different stocks and strains of laboratory rats, viz.
  • (10) In the astrocytes, the residual bodies were extremely polymorphous and contained inclusions with bilamellar ribbon-like structures.
  • (11) These labeled amacrine cells received conventional synaptic contacts from other unlabeled amacrine cells and ribbon synaptic contacts from unlabeled bipolar cells, in both the proximal and distal inner plexiform layer.
  • (12) Regular patterns of actomyosin interactions arise when ribbons are aligned with myosin thick filaments, because the repeat distance of the myosin lattice (429 A) is an integral multiple of the subunit repeat in the ribbon (35.7 A).
  • (13) All underwent implantation of a ribbon electrode through a small laminotomy, under general anesthesia.
  • (14) We have reported that meso-hexestrol, a synthetic estrogen, inhibits microtubule assembly and induces microtubule proteins into twisted ribbon structures.
  • (15) The first is characterized by afferent synapses to the brain with, in the sensory pedicle endings, structures similar to the presynaptic ribbons noted by some authors in photoreceptors of arthropods.
  • (16) Presynaptic ribbons could be observed in cone cells on E.E.
  • (17) The other part was processed for electron microscopy to quantify synaptic ribbons (SR).
  • (18) A possibility of reorganization of the tubular structures into the ribbon-like ones and vice versa is shown.
  • (19) Some tied yellow ribbons and bows to the Eccles Cross while others stood quietly, reflecting on what had happened to someone who, according to the local paper, was an "extraordinary man who we can be proud to call one of our own".
  • (20) At the apposition of the ribbon to the hair cell membrane, presynaptic densities are formed and the ribbon appears to become anchored.