photostat

n. 直接复印照片, 直接复印机 v. 复印照片

词形变化

photostats 复数 photostats photostated photostating photostats 三单 photostatted photostatting photostating 现在分词 photostatting 现在分词 photostated 过去式 photostated 过去分词 photostatted 过去式 photostatted 过去分词

别名

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A (non-xerographic) photocopy made using a Photostat machine; (loosely) any photocopy, even a xerographic one.

    过时

    Near-synonyms: photocopy, xerox, xerograph, copy (all broadly synonymous)

  2. 2.

    The machine (essentially, a special camera) on which such a copy is made.

    历史

    Near-synonyms: photocopier, copier (both contextually synonymous); xerographer, xerox (broadly synonymous)

v.
  1. 1.

    To make such a photocopy.

    及物/不及物

    Near-synonyms: photocopy, xerox, xerograph, copy (all broadly synonymous)

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

photocopy copier duplicator
动词

上位词 3

photocopy xerox run off

词源

A genericization from the trade name of one of the earliest commercially successful types of photocopier, a pre-xerography type. Xerography displaced it in the 1960s and 1970s; since then the relics of it are historical curiosities. More in Wikipedia at Photostat machine.

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