publish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭb'lĭsh
ipa: /ˈpʌblɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈpʊblɪʃ/
rhymes: -ʌblɪʃ
Forms: form: publishes
form: publishing
form: published
form: published
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form: glossary
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Etymology: From Middle English publicen (by analogy with banish, finish), from Old French publier, from Latin publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public.
Senses: examples: text: The Times published the investigative piece about the governor both in print and online.
text: Most of the sketches Faulkner published in 1925 appeared in the Sunday magazine section of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
text: The State combined public information strategies and published billboards, pamphlets, and newsletter articles under the campaign theme, Give 'Em the Boot.
text: In an article published in 2008 [Gérard] Mourou proposed an alternative means of achieving atomic fusion. He now believes that fibre lasers could be used to transmute elements, as a way of disposing of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations.
ref: 2013 August 16, David Larousserie, “Super-lasers blaze knowledge frontier”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 35:
glosses: To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.
examples: text: The Secretary of Health and Human Services published a press release on May 22, 2013.
text: The Bolshevik government published an announcement of the tsar's death.
text: No newspaper published the victim's name.
glosses: To announce to the public.
examples: text: Grove Press published many avant-garde authors.
glosses: To issue the work of (an author).
glosses: To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
examples: text: Major city papers still publish daily.
glosses: To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
examples: text: She needs to publish in order to get tenure.
glosses: To have one's work accepted for a publication.
examples: text: The article first published online, then in print the next day.
glosses: To be made available in a printed publication or other medium.
raw_tags: of content
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified (subscribers).
topics: Christianity
glosses: To preach (as a Jehovah's Witness).
Synonyms: sense: to announce to the public
word: disclose
word: make known
word: post
Derived terms: copublish
depublish
e-publish
micropublish
mispublish
outpublish
overpublish
prepublish
privish
publishability
publishable
publishee
publisher
publishment
publish or perish
pulled-to-publish
pull to publish
republish
self-publish
simulpub
telepublish
unpublish
unpublished
weblish
Related terms: public
publican
publication
publicist
publicity
publicize
republic