What does the word print mean

Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. printnoun

   the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication

   «I want to see it in print»

2. printnoun

   a picture or design printed from an engraving

3. mark, printnoun

   a visible indication made on a surface

   «some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks»; «paw prints were everywhere»

4. printnoun

   availability in printed form

   «we’ve got to get that story into print»; «his book is no longer in print»

5. printnoun

   a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)

6. printnoun

   a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)

7. photographic print, printverb

   a printed picture produced from a photographic negative

8. print, publishverb

   put into print

   «The newspaper published the news of the royal couple’s divorce»; «These news should not be printed»

9. printverb

   write as if with print; not cursive

10. printverb

    make into a print

    «print the negative»

11. print, impressverb

    reproduce by printing

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. printnoun

   Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.

2. printnoun

   Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.

   Write in print using block letters.

3. printnoun

   The letters forming the text of a document.

   The print is too small for me to read.

4. printnoun

   A visible impression on a surface.

   Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.

5. printnoun

   A fingerprint.

   Did the police find any prints at the scene?

6. printnoun

   A footprint.

7. printnoun

   A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.

8. printnoun

   A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.

9. printnoun

   A copy of a film that can be projected.

10. printverb

    To copy something onto a surface, especially by machine.

11. printverb

    To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.

12. printverb

    To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.

    How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?

13. printnoun

    Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.

14. printadjective

    Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Printnoun

   Etymology: empreinte, Fr.

   1. Mark or form made by impression.

   Some more time
   Must wear the print of his remembrance out.
   William Shakespeare.

   Abhorred slave,
   Which any print of goodness wilt not take,
   Being capable of all ill!
   William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   Attend the foot,
   That leaves the print of blood where’er it walks.
   William Shakespeare.

   Up they tost the sand,
   No wheel seen, nor wheels print was in the mould imprest
   Behind them.
   George Chapman, Iliads.

   Our life so fast away doth slide,
   As doth an hungry eagle through the wind;
   Or as a ship transported with the tide,
   Which in their passage leave no print behind.
   Davies.

   My life is but a wind,
   Which passeth by, and leaves no print behind.
   George Sandys.

   O’er the smooth enamell’d green,
   Where no print of step hath been.
   John Milton.

   While the heav’n, by the sun’s team untrod,
   Hath took no print of the approaching light,
   And all the spangled host keep watch.
   John Milton.

   Before the lion’s den appeared the footsteps of many that had gone in, but no prints of any that ever came out.
   South.

   Winds bear me to some barren island,
   Where print of human feet was never seen.
   Dryden.

   From hence Astrea took her flight, and here
   The prints of her departing steps appear.
   Dryden.

   If they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses or reflection, the print wears out.
   John Locke.

   2. That which being impressed leaves its form.3. Pictures cut in wood or copper to be impressed on paper. It is usual to say wooden prints and copper plates.4. Picture made by impression.

   From my breast I cannot tear
   The passion, which from thence did grow;
   Nor yet out of my fancy rase
   The print of that supposed face.
   Edmund Waller.

   The prints, which we see of antiquities, may contribute to form our genius, and to give us great ideas.
   Dryden.

   Words standing for things, should be expressed by little draughts and prints made of them.
   John Locke.

   5. The form, size, arrangement, or other qualities of the types used in printing books.

   To refresh the former hint;
   She read her maker in a fairer print.
   Dryden.

   6. The state of being published by the printer.

   I love a ballad in print, or a life.
   William Shakespeare.

   It is so rare to see
   Ought that belongs to young nobility
   In print, that we must praise.
   John Suckling.

   His natural antipathy to a man, who endeavours to signalize his parts in the world, has hindered many persons from making their appearance in print.
   Addison.

   I published some tables, which were out of print.
   Arbuth.

   The rights of the christian church are scornfully trampled on in print.
   Francis Atterbury.

   7. Single sheet printed and sold.

   The prints, about three days after, were filled with the same terms.
   Addison.

   The publick had said before, that they were dull; and they were at great pains to purchase room in the prints, to testify under their hands the truth of it.
   Alexander Pope.

   Inform us, will the emperor treat,
   Or do the prints and papers lie?
   Alexander Pope.

   8. Formal method.

   Lay his head sometimes higher, sometimes lower, that he may not feel every little change, who is not designed to have his maid lay all things in print, and tuck him in warm.
   John Locke.

2. To PRINTverb

   Etymology: imprimer, empreint, Fr.

   1. To mark by pressing any thing upon another.

   On his fiery steed betimes he rode,
   That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
   Dryden.

   2. To impress any thing, so as to leave its form.3. To form by impression.

   Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince,
   For she did print your royal father off,
   Conceiving you.
   William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you.
   Lev. ix. 28.

   Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay,
   Will to my love direct your wand’ring way.
   Wentworth Dillon.

   His royal bounty brought its own reward;
   And in their minds so deep did print the sense,
   That if their ruins sadly they regard,
   ’Tis but with fear.
   Dryden.

   4. To impress words or make books, not by the pen, but the press.

   Thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, built a paper-mill.
   William Shakespeare.

   This nonsense got in by a mistake of the stage editors, who printed from the piecemeal written parts.
   Alexander Pope.

   Is it probable, that a promiscuous jumble of printing letter should often fall into a method, which should stamp on paper a coherent discourse.
   John Locke.

   As soon as he begins to spell, pictures of animals should be got him, with the printed names to them.
   John Locke.

3. To Printverb

   To publish a book.

   From the moment he prints, he must expect to hear no more truth.
   Alexander Pope.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Printverb

   to fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something

2. Printverb

   to stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure

3. Printverb

   to strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book

4. Printverb

   to stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico

5. Printverb

   to take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface

6. Printverb

   to use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like

7. Printverb

   to publish a book or an article

8. Printnoun

   a mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow

9. Printnoun

   a stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print

10. Printnoun

    that which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter

11. Printnoun

    printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print

12. Printnoun

    that which is produced by printing

13. Printnoun

    an impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate

14. Printnoun

    a printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical

15. Printnoun

    a printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth

16. Printnoun

    a photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper

17. Printnoun

    a core print. See under Core

18. Etymology: [See Print, v., Imprint, n.]

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1. Print

   The publication, Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun in 1940 and continued under different names up to the present day as Print, a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design.
   In its current format, Print documents and critiques commercial, social, and environmental design from every angle: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
   Print is a general-interest magazine, written by cultural reporters and critics who look at design in its social, political, and historical contexts. From newspapers and book covers to Web-based motion graphics, from corporate branding to indie-rock posters, from exhibitions to cars to monuments, Print shows its audience of designers, art directors, illustrators, photographers, educators, students, and enthusiasts of popular culture why our world looks the way it looks, and why the way it looks matters. Print underwent a complete redesign in 2005.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Print

   print, v.t. to press or impress: to mark by pressure: to impress letters on paper, &c.: to publish: (phot.) to produce a positive picture from a negative.—v.i. to practise the art of printing: to publish a book.—n. a mark or character made by impression: the impression of types in general: a copy: a printed picture: an engraving: a newspaper: a printed cloth: calico stamped with figures: that which impresses its form on anything: a cut, in wood or metal: (archit.) a plaster-cast in low relief.—ns. Print′er, one who prints, esp. books, newspapers, &c.; Print′ing, act, art, or practice of printing; Print′ing-ink, ink used in printing; Print′ing-machine′, a printing-press worked by machinery; Print′ing-off′ice, an establishment where books, &c., are printed; Print′ing-pā′per, a paper suitable for printing purposes; Print′ing-press, a machine by which impressions are taken in ink upon paper from types.—adj. Print′less, receiving or leaving no impression.—ns. Print′-sell′er, one who sells prints or engravings; Print′-shop, a shop where prints are sold; Print′-works, an establishment where cloth is printed.—Printer’s devil (see Devil); Printer’s ink (same as Printing-ink); Printer’s mark, an engraved device used by printers as a trade-mark.—In print, published in printed form: in stock, as opposed to books which cannot now be got—Out of print. [Shortened from O. Fr. empreindre, empreint—L. imprimĕre—in, into, premĕre, to press.]

The New Hacker’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. print

   To output, even if to a screen. If a hacker says that a program
   “printed a message”, he means this; if he refers to printing a
   file, he probably means it in the conventional sense of writing to a
   hardcopy device (compounds like ‘print job’ and
   ‘printout’, on the other hand, always refer to the
   latter). This very common term is likely a holdover from the days when
   printing terminals were the norm, perpetuated by programming language
   constructs like C’s
   printf(3).
   See senses 1 and 2 of tty.

Matched Categories

1. • Copy
   • Fabric
   • Graphic Art
   • Handiness
   • Indication
   • Produce
   • Reproduce
   • Write
   • Written Communication

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘print’ in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4442

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘print’ in Written Corpus Frequency: #3474

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘print’ in Nouns Frequency: #1295

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘print’ in Verbs Frequency: #519

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of print in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of print in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of print in a Sentence

1. Army Cpt .:

   Before patient arrival, test participants with the 44th Medical Brigade studied patient information on the Medical Hands-free Unified Broadcast device. ( Ashley Force, U.S. Army) Testing of the device has been taking place at the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory( USAARL) in Fort Rucker, Ala. The test, which examined how field hospital staff used the device, involved mass casualty simulations with mannequinsmocked up to look like combat victims with gunshot wounds, burns and amputations. The so-called golden hour for battlefield medical treatment is a cornerstone of U.S. military medicine. The term refers to the all-important 60 minutes following a battlefield wound and the critical importance of swift, effective medical care. MARINES 3D-PRINT CONCRETE BARRACKS IN JUST 40 HOURS Anything that helps speed up treatment could prove key to saving lives. For some patients, the Golden Hour is ultimately too long, these patients need to be treated within minutes.

2. Pete Seeger:

   Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.

3. Huw Pill:

   I would not be shocked — let’s put it that way — if we see an inflation print close to or above 5 % [ in the months ahead ], and that’s a very uncomfortable place for a central bank with an inflation target of 2 % to be.

4. Carly Fiorina:

   The point is, what exactly is in this agreement? because this administration unfortunately has a track record of burying things in fine print … that turn out to be very different from their selling points.

5. Chief Executive Dan Rosensweig:

   I think people are confused by our guidance for the second half of the year, it( forecast) looks like its coming down a little bit because we’re shifting print to digital faster.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

• طبعArabic
• tisknout, tiskCzech
• printDanish
• drucken, DruckGerman
• presiEsperanto
• impresión, imprimirSpanish
• trükkimaEstonian
• چاپ کردنPersian
• tekstata, painatus, tulostaa, painaaFinnish
• prentaFaroese
• impression, imprimer, empreinteFrench
• clóIrish
• sgrìobh mar chlò, clò-bhuailScottish Gaelic
• הדפיסHebrew
• छाप, छापनाHindi
• nyomtatott betűkkel ír, nyomtat, nyomtatottan írHungarian
• տպելArmenian
• mencetakIndonesian
• prentaIcelandic
• scrivere in stampatello, stampare, impronta, stampaItalian
• 印刷Japanese
• បោះពុម្ពKhmer
• 인쇄Korean
• printLatin
• cetakan, cetakMalay
• printen, afdrukken, drukken, afdrukDutch
• avtrykk, trykk, trykkeNorwegian
• wydrukowaćPolish
• imprimir, impressãoPortuguese
• ImprimaRomanian
• печатать, печать, писать печатными буквами, напечататьRussian
• tlačiťSlovak
• avtryck, texta, trycka, tryck, skriva utSwedish
• ตีพิมพ์, พิมพ์Thai
• yazdırmakTurkish
• друкUkrainian
• چھاپناUrdu
• chư in, inVietnamese
• litodön, bükot, bükönVolapük
• דרוקןYiddish

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