Upmakes

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. Arranges set type or other printed material into complete pages or columns ready for printing
2. Puts together lines of type and blocks of text into finished pages for a printing job
3. Assembles composed type and layout elements into page form before the press run begins

Etymology: "Upmakes" is the third-person singular present form of "upmake," a verb meaning to arrange printed pages into their final layout, typically in the page-making stage of printing. The verb is built from "up," used here in the sense of bringing things together into order, and "make," so the sense is roughly "make up" in the printer's sense of assembling type and blocks into pages. Because the verb is a straightforward compound of two common English words, its meaning is transparent: the printer makes up the pages from the separate pieces of type and illustration. The same pattern appears in older printing terms such as "make-up" for the arrangement of a page, which is why the verb reads so naturally to anyone who has seen the word in a printing context.