/pɹɪnt/
OriginFrom 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”).
- not-comparableOf, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
“a print edition of a book”
- transitiveTo produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.
“Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.”
“Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling”
- To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
“The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.”
- ambitransitiveTo write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
“Print your name here and sign below.”
“I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.”
- ambitransitiveTo publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
“How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?”
“From the moment he prints, he must expect to hear no more truth.”
- transitiveTo stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
- transitiveTo fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
“A look will print a thought that never may remove.”
“Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.”
“some footsteps printed in the clay”
- transitiveTo stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
“Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.”
- intransitive, slangTo inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
- transitiveTo display a string on the terminal.
“However, when you print the string you can see only 11 characters (c, a, r, ', s,, w, h, e, e, l).”
“On the RHS side we write the current date to the variable date and print it to the terminal window, followed by the string "Chris coming home...." .”
- ambitransitiveTo produce an observable value.
“On March 16, 2020, the S&P printed at 2,386.13, one of the worst drops in history.”
- transitiveTo fingerprint (a person).
“Maybe we'll get lucky; maybe he was printed for some minor infraction in some backwater town.”
- uncountableBooks and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
“Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print.”
“TV and the Internet haven't killed print.”
- uncountableClear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
“Write in print using block letters.”
- uncountableThe letters forming the text of a document.
“The print is too small for me to read.”
- countableA newspaper.
“I spent my second quarter-century
Losing what I had learnt at university
And refusing to take in what had happened since.
Now I know none of the names in the public prints […]”
- countable, uncountableA visible impression on a surface.
“Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.”
- countable, uncountableA fingerprint.
“Did the police find any prints at the scene?”
- countable, uncountableA footprint.
- countable, uncountableA picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
“An old print was discovered some time ago in an arch at Waterloo Dock Goods Station[,] Liverpool, in use as a backing on which to write time sheets.”
- countable, uncountableA photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
- countable, uncountableA copy of a film that can be projected.
- countable, uncountableCloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
“The poor are very unreasonable; a kind look and word often go farther in winning upon their affection than even a piece of coarse flannel, or a remnant of dark print.”
- countable, uncountableA plaster cast in bas relief.
- countable, uncountableA datum.
“The reference index is calculated using monthly CPI prints but with a lag of between two and three months.”
- countable, uncountableA pattern or design.
“Many designers consider leopard print rugs and carpeting to be classic floor coverings whose popularity spans centuries and continents.”
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