Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mark or impression made in or on a surface by pressure.
  • noun A fingerprint.
  • noun A device or implement, such as a stamp, die, or seal, used to press markings onto or into a surface.
  • noun Something formed or marked by such a device.
  • noun Text, lettering, or other marks produced in ink from type as by a printing press or from digital fonts by an electronic printer.
  • noun Printed state or form.
  • noun A printed publication or edition of a text; a printing.
  • noun A design or picture transferred from an engraved plate, wood block, lithographic stone, or other medium.
  • noun A photographic image transferred to paper or a similar surface.
  • noun A copy of a movie made on film or in a high resolution digital format, as for public exhibition.
  • noun A fabric or garment with a dyed pattern that has been pressed onto it, usually by engraved rollers.
  • noun The pattern itself.
  • intransitive verb To press (a mark or design, for example) onto or into a surface.
  • intransitive verb To make an impression on or in (a surface) with a device such as a stamp, seal, or die.
  • intransitive verb To press (something, such as a stamp) onto or into a surface to leave a marking.
  • intransitive verb To produce by means of pressed type, an electronic printer, or similar means, on a paper surface.
  • intransitive verb To offer in printed form; publish.
  • intransitive verb To reproduce (a digital document or image) on a paper surface.
  • intransitive verb To convert (a digital document) into a file format designed for publication.
  • intransitive verb To write (something) in characters similar to those commonly used in print.
  • intransitive verb To impress firmly in the mind or memory.
  • intransitive verb To produce a photographic image from (a negative, for example) by passing light through film onto a photosensitive surface, especially sensitized paper.
  • intransitive verb To produce (an electronic component) by mechanically transferring a circuit or circuit pattern onto a nonconductive surface.
  • intransitive verb To work as a printer.
  • intransitive verb To produce something in printed form by means of a printing press or other reproduction process.
  • intransitive verb To write characters similar to those commonly used in print.
  • intransitive verb To produce or receive an impression, marking, or image.
  • adjective Published or reproduced by printing, especially in contrast to electronic publication.
  • adjective Relating to or involved in media based on printing, especially newspapers and magazines.
  • idiom (in print) In printed or published form.
  • idiom (in print) Offered for sale by a publisher.
  • idiom (out of print) No longer offered for sale by a publisher.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Clear and bright.
  • noun In founding: A core-print; a projection on the pattern which leaves a recess in the sand in which to rest the end of the core for a hollow casting.
  • noun The impression left in the sand by a projecting part of the pattern, in which the end of the core is to rest.
  • To press upon or into (something); impress; imprint.
  • To mark by pressing something upon; leave an imprint upon; as, to print butter.
  • To make or form by pressure or impression of any kind; fashion or shape out by stamping, indentation, or delineation in general.
  • Specifically To stamp by direct pressure, as from the face of types, plates, or blocks covered with ink or pigments; impress with transferred characters or delineations by the exertion of force, as with a press or some other mechanical agency: as, to print a ream of paper; to print calico; to print pottery.
  • To copy by pressure; take an impression or impressions from or of. as, to print a form of type; to print an engraved plate or block; to print a pattern on paper, or on calico or some other fabric.
  • To make a copy or copies of by impression; produce by or issue from the press; put into print, as for publication: as, to print a book or a newspaper, an essay or a sermon; to print a picture.
  • To cause to be printed; obtain the printing or publication of; publish.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English preinte, from Old French, from feminine past participle of preindre, to press, alteration of prembre, from Latin premere; see per- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French preinte, the feminine past participle of preindre ("to press"), itself from Latin premere ("top press").

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Examples

  • How to print PDF from Iphone - Requirements: Microsoft Outlook up and running in your PC Usage scenario send an email with the required PDF attached from your iPhone to your own outlook email add to the subject link "#print" and create a rule in MS Outlook to copy/move such emails to a folder named "BatchPrints" Copy the following code

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  • How to print PDF from Iphone - Requirements: Microsoft Outlook up and running in your PC Usage scenario send an email with the required PDF attached from your iPhone to your own outlook email add to the subject link "#print" and create a rule in MS Outlook to copy/move such emails to a folder named "BatchPrints" Copy the following code

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  • How to print PDF from Iphone - Requirements: Microsoft Outlook up and running in your PC Usage scenario send an email with the required PDF attached from your iPhone to your own outlook email add to the subject link "#print" and create a rule in MS Outlook to copy/move such emails to a folder named "BatchPrints" Copy the following code

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  • How to print PDF from Iphone - Requirements: Microsoft Outlook up and running in your PC Usage scenario send an email with the required PDF attached from your iPhone to your own outlook email add to the subject link "#print" and create a rule in MS Outlook to copy/move such emails to a folder named "BatchPrints" Copy the following code

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  • How to print PDF from Iphone - Requirements: Microsoft Outlook up and running in your PC Usage scenario send an email with the required PDF attached from your iPhone to your own outlook email add to the subject link "#print" and create a rule in MS Outlook to copy/move such emails to a folder named "BatchPrints" Copy the following code

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  • 'when you print it, if you print it,' he uses, doubtless, _print_ in the sense of _striking off copies_.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. James Boswell 1767

  • Writing has been compared to an iceberg – what we see in print is only a very small fraction of the whole picture.

    Thinking as Writing « Write Anything 2009

  • Any hardcopy young adult book currently in print is allowed.

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  • Mollie Katzen, with over 6 million books in print, is listed by the New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all time.

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  • Making racist statements, orally and in print, is legal.

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