print

Meaning

Adj

Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

Verb

1. (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.
2. To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
3. (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
4. (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
5. (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
6. (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
7. (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
8. (intransitive, slang) To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
9. (transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
10. (ambitransitive) To produce an observable value.
11. (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).

Noun

1. (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
2. (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
3. (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
4. (countable) A newspaper.
5. (countable, uncountable) A visible impression on a surface.
6. (countable, uncountable) A fingerprint.
7. (countable, uncountable) A footprint.
8. (countable, uncountable) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
9. (countable, uncountable) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
10. (countable, uncountable) A copy of a film that can be projected.
11. (countable, uncountable) Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
12. (countable, uncountable) A plaster cast in bas relief.
13. (countable, uncountable) A datum.
14. (countable, uncountable) A pattern or design.

Synonyms

publish

impression

mark

printing

stamp

imprint

track

press

issue

impress

type

trace

copy

engraving

run off

release

spoor

etching

proof

draft

duplicate

carry

photographic print

dump

edit

print out

trail

spot

write

✍️

reprint

footprint

👣

seal

🦭

printout

plate

entry

circulate

emerge

embody

chop

bright

edition

chap

injury

bloke

available

drawing

imitation

hard copy

calico

hallmark

Translations

imprimer

drucken

imprimir

stampa

stampare

imprimir

afdrukken

Druck

drukken

impresión

empreinte

afdruk

printen

طبع

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹɪnt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *printen

Cognate with Dutch: prenten

Cognate with Middle Low German: prenten

Cognate with Danish: prente

Cognate with Swedish: prenta

Cognate with Old French: printer

Cognate with Latin: premere

In summary

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”).

Sentences

He regularly appears in print , on the radio and on television .