Word Meanings - REPORTORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper.

Related words: (words related to REPORTORIAL)

• STAFFISH
  Stiff; harsh. Ascham.
• STAFFIER
  An attendant bearing a staff. "Staffiers on foot." Hudibras.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• STAFF
  The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave. (more info) stab, Icel. stafr, Sw. staf, Dan. stav, Goth. stabs element, rudiment, Skr. sthapay to cause to stand, to place. See Stand, and 1. A long piece of wood;
• REPORTER
  One who reports. Specifically: An officer or person who makees authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers. Of
• REPORTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper.
• STAFFMAN
  A workman employed in silk throwing.
• NEWSPAPER
  A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements,
• BEDSTAFF
  "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.
• GIBSTAFF
  1. A staff to guage water, or to push a boat. 2. A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage. Bailey.
• CROSS-STAFF
  1. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies. 2. A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
• WRINGSTAFF
  A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.
• FLAGSTAFF
  A staff on which a flag is hoisted.
• PIKESTAFF
  1. The staff, or shaft, of a pike. 2. A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping. Sir W. Scott.
• WHIPSTAFF
  A bar attached to the tiller, for convenience in steering.
• QUARTERSTAFF
  A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
• BACKSTAFF
  An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.
• FORESTAFF
  An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross- staff. Brande & C.
• COWLSTAFF
  A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons. Suckling.
• ROCK STAFF
  An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.