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printing plate; edition; measure word
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printing plate; printing base
Refers to the physical carrier for printing text or images, used in traditional offset printing and modern digital prepress.
The zinc plate printing of this printing shop is very good.
We need to remake the prepress files for this packaging design.
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Ancient woodblock printing required carving characters onto wooden plates.
Copper plate printing is often used to make high-quality picture albums.
You should pay attention to the uniformity of fonts and spacing when typesetting.
noun
edition; version
Refers to a specific published form of a book, magazine, or work, distinguished by language, edition year, or publisher.
The original edition of this book was published in the 19th century.
This publishing house has pirated many foreign bestsellers.
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Song dynasty editions are treasures in ancient book collections.
This novel has an English version and a Chinese version.
I bought the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary.
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print run; edition count
Used to count the total number of times a book has been typeset and printed, with multiple reprints allowed under the same edition.
This textbook has reached the 5th reprint of its first edition.
The sales of the first edition exceeded 100,000 copies very quickly.
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The content of this book was heavily revised when it was reprinted.
The third edition of this poetry collection includes more new poems.
Reprinted books will update some data and cases.
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newspaper section
Used to count the pages/sections of a newspaper, referring to one full side of a printed sheet.
Today's front-page news is about economic recovery.
The entertainment section's reports are all celebrity gossip.
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The sports section published the latest football match results.
The financial section's article analyzes the current stock market trends.
This commentary was published in the opinion section of the newspaper.
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wooden formwork for earthwork
literaryLiterary and archaic term referring to the wooden planks used as formwork for rammed earth walls in traditional construction.
Ancient ancestors built houses using the rammed earth wall with wooden formwork method.
This ancient city wall uses traditional rammed earth formwork craftsmanship.