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line feed en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines, often simultaneously with executing a carriage return.
  2. The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the next line on a display.
  3. A signal that contains the content about to be broadcast on radio or television.
    • It appears that Director Chalmers was the only one who, while reading the final draft, noticed that the wording of one clause required the Post Office to provide a line feed to each station. 1964, Ian K. Mackay, Broadcasting in Nigeria, page 30:
    • Playing a “gig” in Toronto at the time, Lombardo and his boys arrived at RB to do a live line feed to New York for their regular dance-band series on CBS, just at a mement when Baker's one and only amplifier was in full use on CFRB's own air, broadcasting a lucrative locally-sponsored program of recorded music. 2003, Gil Murray, Nothing On But the Radio, page 33:
    • The edited output of the picture is then sent out as the “line feed." 2017, Ivan Cury, Directing and Producing for Television, page 281:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
line feeds Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (6)

tr satır atlatma (computing: the character which advances the paper by one line or moves cursor to the next line) · tr satır besleme (computing: the character which advances the paper by one line or moves cursor to the next line) · pl przesuw (computing: the character which advances the paper by one line or moves cursor to the next line) · fi rivinsiirto (computing: the character which advances the paper by one line or moves cursor to the next line) · de Zeilenvorschub (computing: the character which advances the paper by one line or moves cursor to the next line) · is línuskiptastafur (computing: the character which advances the paper by one line or moves cursor to the next line)

line feed en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To advance the page one line at a time, particularly in rapid succession.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
line feeds Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
line feeding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
line fed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
line fed Tense=Past lexicographic

Antonyms

reverse line feed

Coordinates

carriage return

Hypernyms

control character · control code

Relateds

one-and-a-half-spaced · typewriter · word processing · EOL · single-space · printer · double-spaced