print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prĭnt
ipa: /pɹɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: prints
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: Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print.
text: TV and the Internet haven't killed print.
glosses: Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
examples: text: Write in print using block letters.
glosses: Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
examples: text: The print is too small for me to read.
glosses: The letters forming the text of a document.
examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 1978, Philip Larkin, The Winter Palace:
glosses: A newspaper.
examples: text: Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
glosses: A visible impression on a surface.
examples: text: Did the police find any prints at the scene?
glosses: A fingerprint.
glosses: A footprint.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1957 August 24, “Notes and News: Tithebarn Street Station, Liverpool”, in Railway Magazine, page 589:
topics: arts
visual-art
visual-arts
glosses: A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A copy of a film that can be projected.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
topics: architecture
glosses: A plaster cast in bas relief.
examples: text: The reference index is calculated using monthly CPI prints but with a lag of between two and three months.
ref: 2023, Ilia Bouchouev, Virtual Barrels : Quantitative Trading in the Oil Market, Springer, →ISBN, page 150:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A datum.
examples: text: Many designers consider leopard print rugs and carpeting to be classic floor coverings whose popularity spans centuries and continents.
ref: 2013, Boles, Jennifer, The peak of chic, New York : Clarkson Potter, page 117:
glosses: A pattern or design.
Synonyms: sense: a printed work
word: imprintery
Derived terms: 3D print
animal print
answer print
bark at print
carbon print
clear as print
combined print
contact print
core print
cow print
dick print
e-print
fine print
fingerprint
finger-print
footprint
hoofprint
in print
latent print
licence 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
wax print