Explore Postscript through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like note or annotation. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Postscript meaning
- An addendum to a letter, added after the author's signature.
- An addition to a story, play, etc. after its completion.
Synonyms of Postscript
Using Postscript
- The main meaning on this page is: An addendum to a letter, added after the author's signature. | An addition to a story, play, etc. after its completion.
- Useful related words include: ps, note, annotation, notation.
- In the example corpus, postscript often appears in combinations such as: the postscript, of postscript, postscript language.
Context around Postscript
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Postscript
- In this selection, "postscript" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, display, unlike, covered, level, language and type stand out and add context to how "postscript" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a moving postscript to his and a shocking postscript to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "postscript" sits close to words such as alder, aphasia and aspirational, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with postscript
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Oh, and this, and it’s no “by the way” postscript. (11 words)
In the postscript Prado says "confronting China " is now one the Agency’s primary tasks. (15 words)
PostScript Level 1 The first version of the PostScript language was released to the market in 1984. (17 words)
In a moving postscript to his protest years, Elwin Wilson, a white man who assaulted Lewis at a bus station in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 1961, traveled to Washington in 2009 to apologize tearfully to Lewis, who forgave him. (40 words)
The findings, first established by the human rights group Equidem and verified by the Guardian, are a shocking postscript to the World Cup, which Fifa promised would leave a lasting legacy of better workers' rights in the Gulf state. (39 words)
POSTSCRIPT: Sorry, but I don’t have the 1985 10K race results, except for the elite prize money winners, but if anyone out there has them, especially local finishers, I’d love to include them in my next book. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Design NeWS started by implementing a PostScript interpreter running in a cooperative multitasking fashion, since, unlike PostScript in a printer, NeWS would be displaying a number of PostScript programs at the same time on one screen.
PostScript In the PostScript language, TrueType outlines are handled with a PostScript wrapper as Type 42 for name-keyed, or Type 11 for CID-keyed fonts.
The first edition covered PostScript Level 1, the second edition covered a greatly expanded language known as PostScript Level 2, and includes documentation for Display PostScript as well.
Currently, all PDF capable printers also support PostScript, but most PostScript printers do not support direct PDF printing.
Dates with no explicit Julian or Gregorian postscript will be using the same calendar as the last date with an explicit postscript.
Eventually the standardization on Ethernet for connectivity and the ubiquity of PostScript undermined the unique position of Apple’s printers: Macintosh computers functioned equally well with any Postscript printer.
However, OpenStep also specified the use of Display PostScript, a versatile and powerful PostScript -based method of drawing windows and graphics on screen.
It became better known after it became one of the core 35 PostScript fonts in 1984, bundled with virtually all PostScript devices from laser printers to imagesetters.
On high-end printers, PostScript processors remain common, and their use can dramatically reduce the CPU work involved in printing documents, transferring the work of rendering PostScript images from the computer to the printer.
PostScript Level 1 The first version of the PostScript language was released to the market in 1984.
Producing PostScript Type 1 fonts There are several tools for converting Metafont programs to PostScript Type 1 fonts.
Since all of these additions were implemented as extensions to PostScript, it was possible to write simple PostScript code that would result in a running, onscreen, interactive program.
In the postscript Prado says "confronting China " is now one the Agency’s primary tasks.
Postscript: After the strike, in 1999, Roederer hired the famous union-busting law firm of Littler-Mendelson out of San Francisco.
The findings, first established by the human rights group Equidem and verified by the Guardian, are a shocking postscript to the World Cup, which Fifa promised would leave a lasting legacy of better workers' rights in the Gulf state.
The game has a “talk to the creator” postscript (which even includes a fun little dating simulator), where Liana answers frequently asked questions about the game and her reasons for creating it.
In a moving postscript to his protest years, Elwin Wilson, a white man who assaulted Lewis at a bus station in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 1961, traveled to Washington in 2009 to apologize tearfully to Lewis, who forgave him.
It was also evidence that many are masters of brevity, another running theme in the letters following a comment in last week's postscript that short letters are more likely to be published.
Oh, and this, and it’s no “by the way” postscript.
POSTSCRIPT: Sorry, but I don’t have the 1985 10K race results, except for the elite prize money winners, but if anyone out there has them, especially local finishers, I’d love to include them in my next book.
Common combinations with postscript
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the postscript 19×
- of postscript 9×
- postscript language 7×
- postscript to 7×
- display postscript 5×
- postscript type 5×
- as postscript 4×
- postscript code 4×
- postscript for 4×
- postscript in 3×