Monotype

Word MONOTYPE
Character 8
Hyphenation mon o type
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Monotype"

What do we mean by monotype?

The sole member of its group, such as a single species that constitutes a genus. noun

A unique print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked surface. noun

The only, single, or sole type, as a species single in its genus, a genus in its family, etc.; a typical representative alone of its kind. noun

A print from a metal plate on which a picture is painted, as in oil-color or printers' ink. Only one proof can be made, since the picture is transferred to the paper. noun

Monotypic.

The trade-name of a machine which casts and sets in order single types. noun

Having but one type; containing but one representative. adjective

The only representative of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.

A print (but one impression can be taken) made by painting on metal and then transferring the painting to paper by pressure; also, the process of making such prints.

A kind of keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.

A monotypic taxon. noun

(biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus) noun

A typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters noun

A print made by creating the design using oil paint or printer's ink on metal or glass, then transferring the image directly to paper.

The technique of making such prints.

A monotypic taxon.

A keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.

A sailboat designed to be crewed or raced by a single person.

In the Hindley–Milner type system, a single specific data type.

Monotype is like the word 'monotone' but it's used for when people are talking in IMs, Texts, etc. Monotype is when you don't show emotions when your typing to someone. When you don't use emoticons, or people can't tell how you HONESTLY feel about something. The word monotype was created by KNM. Urban Dictionary

The equivalent of stereotyping a group of people, but when the comment is aimed at the way a single individual behaves and suggests that they always behave in that way. Urban Dictionary

A "single-minded" form of expressing prejudiced/derisive ideas or beliefs. Urban Dictionary

Play on word Urban Dictionary

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The word "monotype" in example sentences

It is called the monotype because it casts and sets up the type piece by piece. ❋ Russell Doubleday (1910)

The reason why the machine is called a monotype is that the letters are made one at a time, and _monos_ is the Greek word for _one_. ❋ Eva March Tappan (1892)

From here, head to Federico Bencini's, where you'll find a bright space full of his magnificent monotype prints created on wood and metal. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Gauguin produced this "traced monotype" by inking a piece of paper, overlaying it with another and then drawing on the back of the blank sheet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Similarities reveal themselves among works as disparate as a rough-hewn monotype of a prostitute scratching her buttocks and an unfinished canvas of nude bathers in the sea. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

For instance, a few summers ago the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona, a medieval building brilliantly re-conceived as a museum by architect Carlo Scarpa, mounted a show of Michael Mazur's great black-and-white monotype illustrations for my translation of Dante's Inferno. ❋ Robery Pinsky (2011)

For "OPEN 3," Walter Kravitz an artist whose works typically occupy whole rooms took graphite, ink and charcoal to the surface of his oil-based monotype. ❋ Kriston Capps (2011)

The others passed up the studio's newer printing technology, instead using the oil-based monotype. ❋ Kriston Capps (2011)

So she has some sense, and maybe she saw fairy sprinklings in the bountyous monotype, or saw Oprah , or Jesus…. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is definitely not a monotype, most likely the rag that was used to wipe off the plate after someone else made a monotype. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One time I shitted a rainbow and when I wiped……it was in monotype. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had a fantastic OOAK monotype after my morning coffee. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or the paper she tested the ink brayer on while making the monotype? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pursuit of the single proof lead to the monotype, a printed image created without engraving. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For just the four years covered in this show, he immersed himself in the new technique of the monotype -- and used it to produce 69 all-black rectangles, with their subjects barely present, in negative, as a handful of white lines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A pair of reworked prints, a lithograph and a monotype of louche performers, transformed by pastel additions, further speak to Degas's interest in revision and experiment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most dramatic, perhaps, is the exhibition's only landscape, a monotype, reinvented with touches of pastel; a diagonal scribble of peach across a mottled dull green expanse becomes a path across vast space — a graphic illustration of a story told about Degas's making landscape monotypes after a journey through the countryside, seeming to manipulate paint randomly, but evoking specific, recognizable places. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You: Omg, that video was amazing! [xD] Monotype [reply]: yeah it was great Non-monotype reply: You: Omg, that video was amazing! xD Non-monotype: Yeah, it was [freaking] amazing! xD ❋ KNM. (2010)

[Clive]: Dave is always drunk. Dave: Stop [monotyping] me man - I'm only [drunk like] three of four times a week. ❋ McWordsbury (2018)

[Monotypical] ideas are formed by using just one portion of [the brain], whereas stereotypical thinking utilizes [both sides]. ❋ QuacksO (2018)

[stero] / mono [sterotype] / [monotype] ❋ Area21records.co.uk (2003)

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