[syn: print, impress]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Print \Print\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Printed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Printing.] [Abbrev. fr. imprint. See Imprint, and Press
to squeeze.]
1. To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea,
etc., into or upon something.
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A look will print a thought that never may remove.
--Surrey.
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Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint,
Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.
--Sir John
Beaumont.
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Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay.
--Roscommon.
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2. To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or
mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
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Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode,
That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
--Dryden.
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3. Specifically: 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.
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4. To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as,
to print calico.
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5. (Photog.) 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.
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Printed goods, textile fabrics printed in patterns,
especially cotton cloths, or calicoes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Print \Print\, v. i.
1. To use or practice the art of typography; to take
impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved
plates, or the like.
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2. To publish a book or an article.
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From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no
more truth. --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Print \Print\, n. [See Print, v., Imprint, n.]
1. 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.
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Where print of human feet was never seen. --Dryden.
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2. A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental
design upon an object; as, a butter print.
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3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or
mold; as, a print of butter.
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4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to
excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large
print; this line is in print.
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5. That which is produced by printing. Specifically:
(a) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved
plate. "The prints which we see of antiquities."
--Dryden.
(b) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or
other periodical. --Addison.
(c) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping,
especially calico or cotton cloth.
(d) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared
paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on
transparent paper.
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6. (Founding) A core print. See under Core.
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Blue print, a copy in white lines on a blue ground, of a
drawing, plan, tracing, etc., or a positive picture in
blue and white, from a negative, produced by photographic
printing on peculiarly prepared paper.
In print.
(a) In a printed form; issued from the press; published.
--Shak.
(b) To the letter; with accurateness. "All this I speak in
print." --Shak.
Out of print. See under Out.
Print works, a factory where cloth, as calico, is printed.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
print
n 1: the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed
publication; "I want to see it in print"
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, print]
4: availability in printed form; "we've got to get that story
into print"; "his book is no longer in print"
5: a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of
it)
6: a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by
engraved rollers)
7: a printed picture produced from a photographic negative [syn:
photographic print, print]
v 1: put into print; "The newspaper published the news of the
royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be printed"
[syn: print, publish]
2: write as if with print; not cursive
3: make into a print; "print the negative"
4: reproduce by printing [syn: print, impress]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
355 Moby Thesaurus words for "print":
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
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
print
v.
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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
PRINT
PRe-edited INTerpreter.
An early mathematics language for the IBM 705.
[Sammet 1969, p. 134].
(1995-05-01)