line feed

Noun

line feed (plural line feeds)

1. (typography) 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.
2. (computing) 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.
3. (broadcasting) A signal that contains the content about to be broadcast on radio or television.
   • 1964, Ian K. Mackay, Broadcasting in Nigeria, page 30:

     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.

   • 2003, Gil Murray, Nothing On But the Radio, page 33:

     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 recorded music.

   • 2017, Ivan Cury, Directing and Producing for Television, page 281:

     The edited output of the picture is then sent out as the “line feed."

Verb

line feed (third-person singular simple present line feeds, present participle line feeding, simple past and past participle line fed)

1. (typography) To advance the page one line at a time, particularly in rapid succession.

Antonyms

• reverse line feed

Hypernyms

• control character
• control code

Coordinate terms

• carriage return

See also

Anagrams

• feed line, feedline