Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun compositor's_case

1 sense of compositor's case

Sense 1
case, compositor's case, typesetter's case -- ((printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers; "for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters")
       => receptacle -- (a container that is used to put or keep things in)