English Explanatory Dictionary

print

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
verb
  1. To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.
  2. To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
  3. To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
  4. To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
  5. To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
  6. To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
  7. To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
  8. To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
  9. To display a string on the terminal.
  10. To produce an observable value.
  11. To fingerprint (a person).
noun
  1. Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
  2. Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
  3. The letters forming the text of a document.
  4. A newspaper.
  5. A visible impression on a surface.
  6. A fingerprint.
  7. A footprint.
  8. A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
  9. A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
  10. A copy of a film that can be projected.
  11. Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
  12. A plaster cast in bas relief.

Pronunciation

prĭnt /pɹɪnt/ en-us-print.ogg

Word forms

print prints printing printed no-table-tags glossary printest printedst printeth

Etymology

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

Synonyms

imprintery

Antonyms

cursive

Derived words

comprint printability printable printableness printer printeress printress printery printless printlessness transprint unprint offprint outprint overprint photoprint reprint surprint teleprint xeroprint printing form printing frame printing house printing ink printing press printing roll printing shop print in print off print out print up non-printing character not worth the paper it is printed on print bed printbound print-disabled printed circuit board printed matter print-friendly printhead print money print on demand printout print pic print run Print Screen print server printwheel 3D print animal print answer print assprint backprint bark at print bioprint blueprint bootprint buttprint carbon print catch print

Translations

Bulgarian: копие Finnish: elokuvakopio Finnish: kopio German: Kopie Hungarian: kópia Welsh: print
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