print
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prĭnt
ipa: /pɹɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: prints
form: printing
form: printed
form: printed
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: print
form: print
form: printed
form: print
form: printest
form: printed
form: printedst
form: prints
form: printeth
form: printed
form: print
form: printed
form: print
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form: -
form: printing
form: printed
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”).
Senses: examples: text: Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
text: 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 nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
ref: 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN:
hyponyms: print out
print off
glosses: To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.
examples: text: The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
glosses: To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
examples: text: Print your name here and sign below.
text: I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.
glosses: To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
examples: text: How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
text: From the moment he prints, he must expect to hear no more truth.
ref: 1716, Alexander Pope, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Preface:
glosses: To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
examples: text: to print calico
glosses: To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
examples: text: A look will print a thought that never may remove.
ref: c. 1547?, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Description of the Fickel Affections, Pangs, and Slights of Love:
text: Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.
ref: 1629, Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth Field:
text: some footsteps printed in the clay
ref: 1701, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Silenus:
glosses: To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
examples: text: Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
glosses: To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
examples: text: However, when you print the string you can see only 11 characters (c, a, r, ', s,, w, h, e, e, l).
ref: 2010, Chuck Easttom, Advanced JavaScript, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 217:
text: 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...." .
ref: 2015, Othmar Kyas, How To Smart Home: A Step by Step Guide to Your Personal Internet of Things, Key Concept Press, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To display a string on the terminal.
examples: text: On March 16, 2020, the S&P printed at 2,386.13, one of the worst drops in history.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To produce an observable value.
examples: text: Maybe we'll get lucky; maybe he was printed for some minor infraction in some backwater town.
ref: 1998, Eric Lustbader, Pale Saint, page 24:
glosses: To fingerprint (a person).
Derived terms: word: printability
word: printable
word: printableness
word: printer
word: printeress
word: printress
word: printery
word: printless
word: printlessness
sense: Phrasal verbs
word: print in
sense: Phrasal verbs
word: print off
sense: Phrasal verbs
word: print out
sense: Phrasal verbs
word: print up
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: non-printing character
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: not worth the paper it is printed on
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: print bed
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: printbound
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: print-disabled
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: printed circuit board
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: printed matter
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: print-friendly
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: printhead
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: print money
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: print on demand
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: printout
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: print pic
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: print run
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: Print Screen
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: print server
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: print up
sense: Compounds words and expressions
word: printwheel
sense: With the form “printing”
word: printing form
sense: With the form “printing”
word: printing frame
sense: With the form “printing”
word: printing house
sense: With the form “printing”
word: printing ink
sense: With the form “printing”
word: printing press
sense: With the form “printing”
word: printing roll
sense: With the form “printing”
word: printing shop