| 释义 | Roneo, n.|ˈrəʊniːəʊ|
Also roneo.
[f. the initial letters of rotary a. and Neostyle (see quot. 1901 below).]
The proprietary name of various kinds of office equipment, esp. a duplicating machine. Freq. attrib. and Comb.
1901Trade Marks Jrnl. 27 Nov. 1182 Roneo... Paper.., stationery and bookbinding. Neostyle Manufacturing Company, Limited. 1914D. Fraser Winning a Primitive People iii. xxvi. 272 A native clerk is there..turning on the Roneo hundreds of copies of some circular to the teachers. 1919Trade Marks Jrnl. 13 Aug. 1138 Roneo... Type printing machines, type setting machines, and embossing machines. Roneo, Limited,..London. 1920Glasgow Herald 3 Dec. 10 The staff of typists and Roneo operators required is very numerous and well paid. 1926Socialist Rev. June 10 No printed newspapers (a few roneo bulletins), no trains. 1934Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Mar. 162/3 Roneo.—As one must have it, why not have the derivation—Rotary Neostyle? 1941E. R. Eddison Fish Dinner xiii. 229 I'll go on for a bit: get my covering memorandum into shape... You've got the annexes all off the roneo now, have you? 1947Trade Marks Jrnl. 5 Mar. 120/1 Roneo... Duplicating apparatus, duplicating machines..Roneo Limited,..Romford, Essex, and..London,..; manufacturers and merchants. 1950Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 12 Dec. 377/1 Roneo. Applicant claims ownership of British Registration No. 241,483 dated Oct. 23, 1901, and United States Registration No. 182,682. For duplicating machines and their parts, duplicating apparatus and their parts. 1958S. Hyland Who goes Hang? xxxi. 136 The complexities of the Roneo strip-index on which he was working. 1973J. Wainwright High-Class Kill 119 An official statement; typed-out, Roneo-copied. 1977Gay News 24 Mar. 22/4 One available in bookstores is Alain Huet's Agence Tasse, a roneotyped newssheet.
Hence as v. trans., to copy or reproduce with a Roneo duplicating machine (usu. pass. with pa. pple. roneo'd); ˈroneo'd (also roneo(-)ed) ppl. a., ˈroneo-ing vbl. n.
1921Spectator 7 May 584/1, I have had the memorandum ‘Roneo'd’ for circulation among near acquaintances. 1926Contemp. Rev. June 682 Newspapers were reappearing in weird type-written or roneo-ed form. 1928Bull. Internat. Fed. League of Nations Societies May–June 5 Among the documents which have been translated, roneoed and distributed by the Secretariat may be cited the following important Memoranda. 1934Planning I. xxiii. 8 In addition to this broadsheet a roneoed bulletin goes round fortnightly to the hundred working members telling them what each group is doing. 1935Punch 6 Mar. 262/2 He said he liked the little poem and was having some copies ‘roneo'd’. 1940W. S. Churchill Second World War (1949) II. 631 The officials concerned in roneo-ing the various circulations. 1956Eng. Stud. XXXVII. 146 The preface to the present (roneo'd, not printed) book. 1966Listener 23 June 915/1 They studied the roneoed exam papers. 1974D. Seaman Bomb that could Lip-Read xv. 144 Back would come a roneoed letter. |
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