line feed
line feed 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
line feed (plural line feeds)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...2003, Gil Murray, Nothing On But the Radio, page 33
Verb
line feed (third-person singular simple present line feeds, present participle line feeding, simple past and past participle line fed)
line feed meaning in Tamil
line feed in Tamil
- வரி ஊட்டம்
Antonyms of line feed
Forms of line feed
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | line feeds |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | line feeds |
| present participle | line feeding |
| past participle | line fed |
| past | line fed |
Questions about line feed
- What does line feed mean?
- Line feed means 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.
- What is line feed in Tamil?
- Line feed in Tamil is வரி ஊட்டம். See Line feed meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is line feed?
- Line feed can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of line feed?
- The plural of line feed is line feeds.
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