# print
## English
### 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”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: prĭnt, IPA: /pɹɪnt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪnt

### Adjective

print (not comparable)
* Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
    a print edition of a book

#### Translations
### Verb

print (third-person singular simple present prints, present participle printing, simple past and past participle printed)
* (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.
    Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
* To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
    The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
* (ambitransitive) To 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.
* (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
    How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
** 1716, Alexander Pope, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Preface:From the moment he prints, he must expect to hear no more truth.
* (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
    to print calico
* (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
** c. 1547?, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Description of the Fickel Affections, Pangs, and Slights of Love:A look will print a thought that never may remove.
** 1629, Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth Field:Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.
** 1701, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Silenus:some footsteps printed in the clay
* (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
** 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
* (intransitive, slang) To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
* (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
** 2010, Chuck Easttom, Advanced JavaScript, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 217:However, when you print the string you can see only 11 characters (c, a, r, ', s,, w, h, e, e, l).
** 2015, Othmar Kyas, How To Smart Home: A Step by Step Guide to Your Personal Internet of Things, Key Concept Press, →ISBN: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...." .
* (finance, ambitransitive) To produce an observable value.
    On March 16, 2020, the S&P printed at 2,386.13, one of the worst drops in history.
* (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
** 1998, Eric Lustbader, Pale Saint, page 24:Maybe we'll get lucky; maybe he was printed for some minor infraction in some backwater town.

#### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete.

#### Derived terms

* printability
* printable
* printableness
* printer
* printeress, printress
* printery
* printless
* printlessness
* print in
* print off
* print out
* print up
* non-printing character
* not worth the paper it is printed on
* 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
* print up
* printwheel
* printing form
* printing frame
* printing house
* printing ink
* printing press
* printing roll
* printing shop

#### Translations
### Noun

print (countable and uncountable, plural prints)
* (uncountable) Books 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.
* (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
    Write in print using block letters.
* (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
    The print is too small for me to read.
* (countable) A newspaper.
** 1978, Philip Larkin, The Winter Palace: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 […]
* A visible impression on a surface.
    Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
* A fingerprint.
    Did the police find any prints at the scene?
* A footprint.
* (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
* (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
* (film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
* Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
** 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 20–21: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.
* (architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
* (finance) A datum.
** 2023, Ilia Bouchouev, Virtual Barrels : Quantitative Trading in the Oil Market, Springer, →ISBN, page 150:The reference index is calculated using monthly CPI prints but with a lag of between two and three months.

#### Synonyms

* (a printed work): imprintery (obsolete)

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “writing without connected letters”): cursive

#### Derived terms

* 3D print
* answer print
* bark at print
* carbon print
* clear as print
* combined print
* contact print
* core print
* dick print
* e-print
* fine print
* fingerprint
* finger-print
* footprint
* hoofprint
* in print
* latent print
* licence to print money
* license to print money
* mouse print
* newsprint
* out of print
* out-of-print
* palm print
* pawprint
* plain as print
* preprint
* pretty-print
* print butter
* print-disabled
* print disabled
* print-friendly
* print head
* printlike
* printmaker
* printmaking
* print media
* print newspaper
* print-off
* print-on-demand
* print-out
* printout
* print run
* printseller
* print server
* print shop
* print-through
* printworker
* printworks
* printworthiness
* print-worthy
* printworthy
* pussy print
* read-eval-print loop
* scratch print
* screen print
* shoe print
* slap print
* slash print
* small print
* spore print
* sulfur print
* sulphur print
* thumbprint
* time for print
* tinsel print
* voice for print

#### Translations

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### Further reading

* Print on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from English print.

### Verb

print
* to print; to print out or off; to produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine

## Chinese
### Etymology

From English print.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): pin$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pin$^1$
*** Yale: pīn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pin$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: pin$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰiːn⁵⁵/

### Verb

print
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) to print with a printer or a photocopier

### See also

* printer

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪnt

### Verb

print
* inflection of printen:
** first/second/third-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Probably from English Print Screen.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾĩ.t͡ʃi/, /ˈpɾĩt͡ʃ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾĩ.t͡ʃi/, /ˈpɾĩt͡ʃ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾĩt͡ʃ/, /ˈpɾĩ.t͡ʃi/

### Noun

print m or f (plural prints)
* (Internet slang) screenshot
    Synonyms: (Portugal) captura de ecrã, (Brazil) captura de tela, screenshot
    tirar print ― to take a screenshot

#### Related terms

* printar

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English print.

### Noun

print n (plural printuri)
* print

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English print.

### Noun

print m (Cyrillic spelling принт)
* Output of a computer printer.

#### Derived terms

* prȉntati