Definition of "print"

print

/pɹɪnt/

adjective
not comparable
1. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
verb
third-person singular simple present prints, present participle printing, simple past and past participle printed
1. (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.
2. To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
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  From the moment he prints, he must expect to hear no more truth.
  1716, Alexander Pope, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Preface
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.
  Quotations
  A look will print a thought that never may remove.
  c. 1547?, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Description of the Fickel Affections, Pangs, and Slights of Love
  Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.
  1629, Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth Field
  some footsteps printed in the clay
  1701, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Silenus
7. (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
  Quotations
  Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
  1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
8. (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
  Quotations
  However, when you print the string you can see only 11 characters (c, a, r, ', s,, w, h, e, e, l).
  2010, Chuck Easttom, Advanced JavaScript, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 217
  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...." .
  2015, Othmar Kyas, How To Smart Home: A Step by Step Guide to Your Personal Internet of Things, Key Concept Press
9. (finance, transitive, intransitive) To produce an observable value.
10. (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
  Quotations
  Maybe we'll get lucky; maybe he was printed for some minor infraction in some backwater town.
  1998, Eric Lustbader, Pale Saint, page 24
noun
countable and uncountable, plural prints
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.
  Quotations
  I spent my second quarter-centuryLosing what I had learnt at universityAnd refusing to take in what had happened since.Now I know none of the names in the public prints […]
  1978, Philip Larkin, The Winter Palace
5. A visible impression on a surface.
6. A fingerprint.
7. A footprint.
8. (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
9. (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
10. (film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
11. Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
  Quotations
  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.
  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, pages 20–21
12. (architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.

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