Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A leader.
- noun An inking-roller on a printing-press which takes printing-ink from the ink-fountain and conducts it (whence the name) to the distributing-table and -rollers. Improperly called
doctor by many pressmen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who leads.
- noun (Mach.) A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See
Doctor , 4. - noun (Printing) the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who leads.
- noun engineering, dated A
device for removingsuperfluous ink or colouring matter from aroller . Seedoctor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tell the 'ductor 'bout my white mouses died, and I can't go athout sumpin to carry. "
Little Folks Astray Sophie May 1869
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What I dreamt of, O my brothers, was of being in some very big orchestra, hundreds and hundreds strong, and the con - ductor was a like mixture of Ludwig van and G.F. Handel, looking very deaf and blind and weary of the world.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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Tunc ductor noster præcepit vtflecteremus genua, et loqueremur.
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Tunc incepit quærere ductor noster quid portaremus ei, et coepit multum scandalizari, quum vidit quod nihil parabamus ad portandum.
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Monuit nos ductor noster vt non loqueremur, donec Baatu præciperet: et tunc loqueremur breuiter.
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Tunc ductor noster pr鎐epit vtflecteremus genua, et loqueremur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Tunc incepit qu鎟ere ductor noster quid portaremus ei, et coepit multum scandalizari, quum vidit quod nihil parabamus ad portandum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Monuit nos ductor noster vt non loqueremur, donec Baatu pr鎐iperet: et tunc loqueremur breuiter.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Rench focuses on the company in the early 1970s as a major producer of metal oxide semicon - ductor chips and as a multinational corporation.
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Our friend Gratian, Eusebius, made no matter of conscience of this fibbing -- did not hesitate -- wanted no "ductor dubitantium" -- as he told it to us.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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