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 4 of 21: from “centaurian” to “cred”.
- centaurian noun An inhabitant of the constellation Centaurus.
- centauroid noun A creature resembling a centaur.
- chancery noun Ellipsis of chancery hand.
- chancery hand noun Either of two styles of handwriting: a written form of black letter used in France and England from about 1350, developed in the Lateran…
- changeling noun In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and…
- chaotics noun A branch of literary and cultural studies based on chaos theory and the inherent structure of apparently chaotic systems.
- characters per inch noun A unit of measurement of the number of typographic characters that fit on a one inch line of printed type. This unit is mainly used to…
- charade noun A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
- Charonian noun An inhabitant of Charon (a moon of Pluto).
- Charontian noun An inhabitant of Charon (a moon of Pluto).
- chase noun A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
- chaser noun In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
- Chauceresque adj Reminiscent of the style of Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1343–1400), major English poet of the Middle Ages.
- Chaucerian adj Of or pertaining to Geoffrey Chaucer or his writings.
- chibi noun A child-like character with exaggerated features, particularly in anime.
- chicon noun A name given to various science fiction conventions held in Chicago, United States.
- choliambic adj Employing or relating to choliambs, or limping iambs.
- choriambus noun A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united…
- choric adj Intended to be sung by a choir or chorus (e.g. a hymn)
- chosen one noun A character in a narrative work who is predestined to save the world or accomplish some other grand and heroic deed; one who is predestined…
- chrismon noun A stylised siglum or character interpreted as an invocation of Christ in Merovingian and Carolingian documents.
- chronoclasm noun An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.
- chronoscope noun A device able to directly view other times, past or future.
- chud noun A cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller.
- chuff noun Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or…
- chunking noun A method of presenting information which splits concepts into small pieces or "chunks" of information to make reading and understanding…
- cicero noun The Continental equivalent of the English pica: a measure of 12 Didot points (4.51368 mm or about 0.178 in.) or a body of type in this size.
- circle noun Synonym of doujin circle.
- cityship noun A spacecraft which contains an entire city.
- claiming bite noun In speculative erotica, a bite given by one person to another to form a permanent bond, typically leaving a scar or mark.
- claiming mark noun In speculative erotica, a scar or mark on a person's body signifying their permanent bond to another, typically the result of a bite.
- classical language noun An ancient language that has an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own, and has a large and rich body of ancient literature.
- claviform noun An image or symbol which is club-shaped, that is, larger at the tip than at the base.
- cliché noun A stereotype (printing plate).
- clicker noun One who has charge of the work of a companionship.
- cloak verb To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
- cloaked adj rendered invisible by advanced technology.
- cloner noun A device capable of duplicating physical objects.
- closed form noun A type of poetry with regular structure, such as meter or a rhyming pattern.
- closed time loop noun A chain of events in which someone or something time travels to the past as a means to fulfill their role in the history exactly as it…
- closure noun The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
- clothbound adj Bound with cloth, as opposed to other bindings such as paper or leather.
- clurichaun noun A mischievous, potentially malicious fairy, akin to the leprechaun, that greatly loves drinking and tends to haunt breweries, pubs and wine…
- clustering noun A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas…
- cockatrice noun A monster with a lethal gaze or breath, originally believed to originate from a cock egg brooded over by a snake or toad, later…
- cognitive estrangement noun A narrative logic, characteristic of science fiction, whereby devices used in the story are afforded plausibility by their being placed in…
- cognitohazard noun A sensory signal (such as an image or sound) that directly causes harmful or undesired physiological effects to one who senses or perceives…
- colon noun A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.
- colophon noun In manuscripts (typically before the invention of printing), the note, usually at the end, left by the scribe who copied it, giving…
- color noun The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
- color separation noun The process of breaking down a colored image into its component colors in order for it to be printed.
- colour bar noun A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages.
- Columbian noun A size of type between English and great primer, standardized as 16-point.
- combining form noun A character encoded with a sequence of other characters instead of a precomposed character.
- come in verb To be correctly placed in preparation for printing.
- come off verb To finish being printed.
- comic book noun A book or magazine that uses sequences of drawings to narrate a story or a series of stories, primarily in a serialized form, usually…
- comic strip noun A series of drawings, in sequence, often but not necessarily depicting something funny or satirical in nature; more specifically, a single…
- comm noun Synonym of commlink.
- comma noun The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- commatic adj Having short clauses or sentences, often separated with commas
- communicator noun A usually portable communications device.
- complement noun A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a…
- compose verb To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
- composing rule noun A thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing stick, or by the aid of which stickfuls or handfuls or…
- composition noun Typesetting.
- compound balloon noun A type of speech bubble that splits dialogue into smaller pieces.
- compound point noun An obsolete typographical construction made up of more than one punctuation mark, such as the comma dash (,—) or semicolon dash (;—).
- computronium noun programmable matter
- conceit noun An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- conceited adj Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- conceptismo noun A 16th- and 17th-century literary movement in Spain associated with Francisco de Quevedo and characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness…
- conehead noun One of a fictional race of humanoid aliens with conical skulls.
- confessionalism noun A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.
- conscience noun A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral…
- constructed script noun A new writing system specifically created by an individual or group, rather than having evolved as part of a language or culture as a…
- continuation line noun A word or phrase that appears at the end of an initial portion of a text, and indicates the location of the next portion or rest of the…
- contone adj Having a continuous range of tones from white to black, rather than an approximation such as stippling.
- contraction noun In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
- conversational journal noun A journal or diary, usually in digital form, that incorporates elements of interactive dialogue, often facilitated by artificial…
- copy noun The text (words, content) that is to be typeset or similarly prepared and published.
- copyedit verb To correct the spelling, grammar, formatting, etc. of printed material and prepare it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing.
- copyholder noun A device that holds copy in place for typesetting.
- core noun A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
- coreward adj Close to or travelling towards the galactic core.
- corner bracket noun Either of a pair of symbols, 「 」, used as quotation marks in some languages.
- corona noun A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.
- coronis noun A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.
- corpsicle noun A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival.
- correption noun A shortening in pronunciation.
- corvette noun A starship of comparable role
- counter noun The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- counterproof noun The inverted image of an original proof.
- counterpunch noun A punch used in the cutting of other punches, often used to create the negative space in or around a glyph.
- country of origin noun Country of first publication.
- couplet noun A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
- courtesy of the trade noun An unofficial agreement between American publishers not to compete by reprinting the same (pirated) titles from Britain.
- cover price noun The price of a publication, such as a book, newspaper or magazine, traditionally shown on the cover.
- cpi noun The measure of a number of typeset font characterss per inch used or supported by a digital display device
- cred noun A credit (currency unit).