line feed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
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.
verb
To advance the page one line at a time, particularly in rapid succession.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The edited output of the picture is then sent out as the “line feed.""