This page gathers the 2,094 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Publishing”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 20 of 21: from “tracking” to “versification”.
- tracking noun A consistent adjustment of space between individual letters; letterspacing.
- tractor verb To move with a tractor beam.
- trad pub noun A work that has been published through a third-party publishing company, or a traditional publisher.
- trade book noun A book that is marketed to a general audience (as opposed to books that have specialized audiences, such as academic books). Not…
- trade paperback noun A softcover edition of a previously hardcover book, usually produced with the exact same text as the hardcover.
- transdimensional adj Relating to a dimension other than those of the normal three-dimensional world.
- transformer noun Alternative letter-case form of Transformer.
- transhumanity noun The state of being transhuman.
- transmat noun A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening…
- transorbital noun A commercial spacecraft operating between the planets of the solar system.
- transporter noun A device that instantaneously transports, or teleports, a person or object.
- transrealism noun A literary mode that mixes the techniques of incorporating fantastic elements used in science fiction with the techniques of describing…
- transversion noun The changing from prose into verse, or verse into prose.
- tri-D noun Synonym of tri-V (“a system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video”).
- trickster noun Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and…
- tricorder noun A fictional futuristic handheld device used for scanning, which may be specialized for medical, technical, or other purposes.
- trideo noun A three-dimensional video.
- tridim noun Synonym of trideo (“a three-dimensional video”).
- trigesimo-secundo noun A book size, (3.75"–5" × 2.5"–3.125"), corresponding to the paper size.
- trim noun Any of the three cut edges of book pages, trimmed with a shear after binding.
- tripedal adj Having three metrical feet.
- tripod noun A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
- Tristanian adj Of or pertaining to Sir Tristan, legendary Arthurian knight and tragic hero of the mediaeval romance Tristan and Iseult.
- trochaic noun A poetical composition of this kind.
- troll noun a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
- troll cat noun In Scandinavian folklore, a witch's familiar made from hair, wood shavings, etc. that would suck milk from cows and steal cream from…
- trope noun Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
- tsundere noun A fictional character who fits the archetype of being cold or even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and…
- tsurime noun Eyes slanted upward on the outside.
- turn noun A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
- turnover noun Synonym of runover.
- turtle noun The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
- twelvemo noun a page, book etc. of that size
- twenty-fours noun A form of composed type or plates containing 24 leaves or 48 pages, properly arranged for printing and folding.
- twinner noun One who is identical, is similar, or is a counterpart, to another person.
- twintail noun Either of a pair of unbraided tails worn on the sides of the head; an unbraided pigtail.
- Twitterature noun Literary use of the microblogging service Twitter, especially in the form of aphorisms, poetry, and fiction.
- tympan noun A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
- type noun Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- type design noun The art of designing typefaces.
- typecast verb To found type in a mold.
- typeface noun The particular design of some type, font, or a font family.
- typeholder noun A container for type.
- typograph noun A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.
- typographic ligature noun A character that visually combines multiple letters, usually but not always by connecting them (making them contiguous), such as æ, œ, ß or…
- typometry noun Printing maps or drawings with moveable type.
- uke noun A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
- ultraism noun A Spanish poetic movement opposed to modernism.
- ultrawave noun A type of radiation, often described as allowing for faster-than-light communication.
- Umbrielian adj Of or relating to the Popean character Umbriel.
- umlaut noun The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel
- unaccent noun An unaccented syllable.
- unbold verb To change (text) from a bold typeface to a non-bolded typeface.
- uncloak verb To become visible again by turning off a cloaking device.
- uncloaked adj rendered visible again by turning off or disabling cloaking technology.
- uncut adj Of a play, film, etc., not edited or abridged by a censor.
- underbreed noun An inferior or subservient breed of people or sentient beings.
- underground people noun Any of the fairy folk, trolls, dwarfs, or other supernatural beings, that primarily live underground.
- underlay noun A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
- underperson noun A member of a subhuman sentient species.
- underprint adj The addition of colour under black areas to produce a deeper black and prevent oversaturation of the paper.
- underverse noun An alternate universe located in some sense underneath the real one.
- unemboldened adj Unbolded.
- unfiction noun A form of fictional piece of media and/or storytelling that attempts to suspend disbelief by asserting in some way that it is not a fiction.
- unfooted adj Not assigned a metrical foot.
- unhatted adj Written without a circumflex ('^').
- unicameral adj Of a script or typeface: making no distinction between upper and lower case, but rather having only one case.
- unicase adj A category of display font in which the same glyph set is used for capital and lowercase.
- union bug noun A maker’s mark imprinted on a work to show that it is sanctioned by members of a trade union. It is often a tiny elongated rhomboid…
- unity of action noun The classical unity that states that a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.
- unity of place noun The classical unity that states that a play should exist in a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor…
- unity of time noun The classical unity stating that the action of a play should take place over no more than twenty-four hours.
- universe noun A collection of stories with characters and settings that typically share a continuity but are less interrelated than those of sequels or…
- unjustified adj Not justified (of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are…
- unlead verb To take out the leads from (printed matter that has been set up).
- unpointed adj Not marked with a point.
- unreliable narrator noun A narrating character or storyteller in a literary or other artistic work (such as a film, novel, play, or song) who provides conflicting…
- Unseelie noun A malevolent or malicious fairy.
- unstress noun An unstressed syllable.
- uplift verb To raise (a nonsentient species) into sentience.
- upmaking noun The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.
- upstyle adj Which capitalizes all nouns, adjectives and adverbs (in a title, heading, headline, header, or similar display type element): which is…
- ur-poem noun A poem that is believed to be a precursor or prototype to a more modern class of poetry; usually a hypothetical 'mother poem' of a genre.
- uranian noun An inhabitant of the planet Uranus.
- urban fantasy noun A subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.
- ustav noun The earliest style of Cyrillic writing developed from Greek uncial in the late 9th century, predominant in the 11th–14th centuries.
- utopian noun A person from Utopia, a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system from Thomas More’s 1516 book of the…
- vamp verb To turn (someone) into a vampire.
- Vancian adj Of or relating to Jack Vance (1916–2013), American writer of mystery, fantasy, and science fiction stories.
- variable font noun A digital font whose design features can be freely adjusted in a cline via the manipulation of various axes, such as the "weight axis" or…
- varitype noun A kind of advanced typewriter that could use various different typefaces.
- Varronian adj Synonym of Menippean (“style of satire”).
- vee noun A unit of vertical spacing, typically corresponding to the height of an ordinary line of text.
- vegan noun Someone from the vicinity of the star Vega.
- Venusian noun An inhabitant of the planet Venus.
- verisimilar adj Faithful to its own rules; internally consistent.
- verism noun Presenting common, everyday subjects, specifically eschewing the heroic or legendary.
- versal noun Ornamental letter that begins a section
- versicle noun One of a series of lines that are shorter than a standard line of verse, particularly in a hymn.
- versification noun The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.