Dictionary Definition
print
Noun
1 the result of the printing process; "I want to
see it in black and white" [syn: black and
white]
2 a picture or design printed from an
engraving
3 a visible indication made on a surface; "some
previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks"; "paw
prints were everywhere" [syn: mark]
4 a copy of a movie on film (especially a
particular version of it)
5 a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it
(usually by engraved rollers)
6 a printed picture produced from a photographic
negative [syn: photographic
print]
Verb
1 put into print; "The newspaper published the
news of the royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be
printed" [syn: publish]
2 write as if with print; not cursive
3 make into a print; "print the negative"
4 reproduce by printing [syn: impress]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /prɪnt/
Adjective
- of, relating to, or writing for printed publications
Verb
- To copy something onto
a surface, especially by
machine.
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- Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
- The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
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- In the context of "transitive or intransitive": To write very clearly, especially, to write
without connecting
the letters as in
cursive.
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- Print your name here and sign below.
- I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.
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- To publish in a
book, newspaper, etc.
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- How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
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Derived terms
Translations
to copy something on a surface, especially by
machine
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 印刷 (yìnshuà)
- Dutch: drukken, afdrukken, printen
- Finnish: painaa, tulostaa
- French: imprimer
- German: drucken
- Hungarian: nyomtatni
- Icelandic: prenta
- Italian: stampare
- Japanese: 印刷する (いんさつする, insatsu suru)
- Korean: 인쇄하다 (inswaehada)
- Norwegian: trykke
- Portuguese: imprimir
- Russian: печатать (pečátat’)
- Spanish: imprimir
- Swedish: trycka
write clearly
- Finnish: tekstata
- Hungarian: nyomtatott betűkkel írni
- Italian: scrivere in stampatello
- Swedish: texta
Noun
- Books and other
material created by printing
presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
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- Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print.
- TV and the internet haven't killed print.
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- Clear handwriting, especially,
writing without connected letters as in cursive.
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- Write in print using block letters.
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- The letters forming
the text of a document.
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- The print is too small for me to read.
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- A visible impression on a surface.
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- Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
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- A fingerprint.
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- Did the police find any prints at the scene?
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- A footprint.
- In the context of "visual art": A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
- In the context of "photography": A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
- In the context of "motion pictures": A copy of a film that can be projected.
- Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
Derived terms
Translations
result of printing process
visible impression
Croatian
Etymology
From print.Noun
hr-noun m- Output of a computer printer.
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Print may refer to:
- Printing, mostly
using a printing press
- Printing press, printing with moveable metal type, see also Letterpress printing
- Publishing, the distribution of printed works or other information
- Print run, one batch of printing, that is, the number of copies printed by a single set-up of the printing press
- Printmaking, various processes for producing multiple copies of works of art by printing
- Old master print, a product of printmaking, such as an engraving, etching or woodcut, in the European (as opposed to eg Asian) tradition, especially those made before 1830
- Textile printing
- Input/output,
computer output on a screen or on paper
- Computer printer, a device to put ink on paper
- Print (command), a shell command
- Photographic print, i.e. photograph or photo
- Print (filmmaking), e.g. distribution print
- A BASIC programming language command that generates text in text modes. Derived from the text printing process on teletype terminals prior to refreshing displays
- Print (magazine), a bimonthly magazine about visual culture and design
print in German: Print
print in Simple English: Print
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Ditto copy, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, alveolation, alveolus, aquatint, ascender, autolithograph, back, backlash, backwash, bastard type, be a
printmaker, beard,
bed, belly, bevel, black and white, black
letter, blaze, blaze a
trail, blemish, block, block print, blotch, blow up, blowup, blueprint, body, boss, brand, bring out, bump, cap, capital, carve, case, catch a likeness, chalk, chalk up, character, characterize, chart, check, check off, chisel, choice of words, chromolithograph,
cicatrize, clout, collage, colophon, color print, concavity, confirm, contact print, contact
printing, convexity,
copperplate,
copperplate print, copy,
counter, crayon
engraving, crease,
cribble, crosshatch, cut, cyanotype, cyclorama, dactylogram, dactylograph, dapple, dash, daub, deep-dye, define, delimit, delineate, demarcate, dent, descender, develop, diagram, dimple, dint, diptych, discolor, dot, draw, em, embed, embossment, en, enchase, engraft, engrave, engravement, engraving, enlarge, enlargement, entrench, establish, etch, etching, excrescence, face, facsimile, fat-faced type,
fix, fleck, font, footmark, footprint, footstep, force, fossil footprint, found, freckle, fresco, furrow, gash, get out, glossy, gouge, graphotype, grave, groove, ground, hatch, hectograph, hectograph copy,
hit off, hologram,
honeycomb, ichnite, ichnolite, icon, illumination, illustration, image, impact, implant, impress, impression, imprint, incise, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, infix, ingrain, inscribe, issue, italic, jam, language, lantern slide,
letter, letterpress, ligature, likeness, limn, line, linoleum-block print,
lithograph, lodge, logotype, lower case, lump, mackle, majuscule, make a mark, make
prints, map, mark, mark off, mark out, matte, mezzotint, microcopy, microprint, mimeograph, mimeograph copy,
miniature, minuscule, montage, mosaic, mottle, multigraph, mural, negative, nick, notate, notch, offcut, offprint, offset, overprint, pack, pad, paint, panorama, paw print, pawmark, pencil, pepper, photo, photocopy, photograph, photogravure, photostatic
copy, phrasing,
pi, pic, pica, picture, picturize, pimple, pit, pix, plant, pock, pockmark, point, portray, positive, prick, printed matter, process, projection printing,
proof, prove, publish, pug, pugmark, pull, pull a proof, punch, punctuate, puncture, put out, put to bed,
put to press, reaction,
recoil, reflex, register, reissue, render, repercussion, replica, represent, representation, reprint, reproduction, response, riddle, roman, root, rotogravure, rub, rubber-block print, run, run off, sans serif, scar, scarify, schematize, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, script, sculpture, seal, seam, seat, semi-matte, set, set in, setoff, settle, shank, shoulder, sigil, signet, slide, small cap, small capital,
speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain, stained glass window,
stamp, stat, steel, stem, stencil, step, stereotype, stigmatize, still life,
stipple, streak, striate, strike, stripe, stud, sunken part, symbolize, tableau, take a rubbing,
tapestry, tattoo, text, thumbmark, thumbprint, tick, tick off, tool, trace, trace out, trace over,
transparency,
triptych, type, type body, type class, type
lice, typecase,
typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, underline, underscore, upper case,
vestige, vignette, wall painting,
wedge, wood engraving,
woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, wording, write, writing, xylograph