printer

«printer» in Mova's school dictionary: a machine that prints words and pictures on paper from a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (printer, printers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A printer is a machine that prints words and pictures on paper from a computer. tree →

2) A printer is also a person or company whose job is printing books, newspapers or posters. tree →

3) A 3D printer builds solid objects layer by layer. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: a machine printing pages at a rate (pages per minute); time = pages ÷ rate; two printers working together add their rates; sheets of paper in the tray. In everyday life: printing homework, out of ink, a paper jam. In history: the printing press made books cheap. Phrases: «printer ink», «paper jam», «3D printer», «laser printer».

examples

• A printer prints 15 pages a minute. tree →
• Two printers work together. tree →
• The printer has 200 sheets. tree →
• How long to print 90 pages? tree →
• The printer has run out of ink. tree →
• There's a paper jam in the printer again. tree →
• Our school 3D printer made a plastic dinosaur. tree →
• Send the photo to the printer. tree →

note

Countable: «a printer». Maths: a rate: time = pages ÷ rate. Trap: two printers together add their rates (15 + 15 = 30 pages a minute), so the time halves.

In the corpora

• Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow instead, which mix cleaner colours.
• Chinese printers often kept using carved woodblocks, because Chinese needs thousands of different characters.
• William Caxton brought the printing press to England in 1476; printers had to choose spellings, and many of their choices stuck.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «printer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.