A dot matrix printer. FromMiddle English *printen ,prenten ,preenten , anapheretic form ofemprinten ,enprinten ( “ to impress; imprint ” ) (seeimprint ). CompareDutch prenten ( “ to imprint ” ) ,Middle Low German prenten ( “ to print; write ” ) ,Danish prente ( “ to print ” ) ,Swedish prenta ( “ to write German letters ” ) . Compare also LateOld French printer ,preindre ( “ to press ” ) , fromLatin premere ( “ to press ” ) .
print (notcomparable )
Of, relating to, or writing forprinted publications.aprint edition of a book
of, relating to, or writing for printed publications
—see printed print (third-person singular simple present prints ,present participle printing ,simple past and past participle printed )
( transitive ) To produce one or morecopies of a text or image on asurface , especially by machine; often used without oroff :print out ,print off .Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
To produce amicrochip (anintegrated circuit ) in a process resembling the printing of an image.The circuitry isprinted onto the semiconductor surface.
( ambitransitive ) Towrite veryclearly , especially, to write withoutconnecting theletters as incursive .Print your name here and sign below.
I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how toprint .
( ambitransitive ) Topublish in abook ,newspaper , etc.How could theyprint an unfounded rumour like that?
1716 ,Alexander Pope ,The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope , Preface:From the moment heprints , he must expect to hear no more truth.
( transitive ) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.toprint calico
( transitive ) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.c. 1547? ,Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ,Description of the Fickel Affections, Pangs, and Slights of Love :A look willprint a thought that never may remove.
1629 ,Sir John Beaumont ,Bosworth Field :Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword didprint .
( transitive ) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.1697 ,Virgil , “Palamon and Arcite”, inJohn Dryden , transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. [ … ] , London: [ … ] Jacob Tonson , [ … ] ,→OCLC :Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcelyprints the turf on which he trod.
( intransitive , slang ) Toinadequately conceal aweapon such that itsoutline orimprint is visible on the person wearing it.( computing , transitive ) To display astring on theterminal .2010 , Chuck Easttom,Advanced JavaScript , Jones & Bartlett Learning,→ISBN , page217 :However, when youprint the string you can see only 11 characters (c, a, r, ', s,, w, h, e, e, l).
2015 , Othmar Kyas,How To Smart Home: A Step by Step Guide to Your Personal Internet of Things , Key Concept Press,→ISBN :On the RHS side we write the current date to the variable date andprint it to the terminal window, followed by the string "Chris coming home...." .
( finance , ambitransitive ) To produce an observable value.( transitive ) Tofingerprint (a person).1998 , Eric Lustbader,Pale Saint , page24 :Maybe we'll get lucky; maybe he wasprinted for some minor infraction in some backwater town.
Compounds words and expressions
to produce a copy of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine
Albanian:shtyp (sq) Arabic:طَبَعَ (ar) ( ṭabaʕa ) Armenian:տպել (hy) ( tpel ) Azerbaijani:çap etmək ,basmaq (az) Bashkir:баҫтырыу ( baśtırıw ) Belarusian:друкава́ць impf ( drukavácʹ ) ,надрукава́ць pf ( nadrukavácʹ ) Bengali:ছাপা (bn) ( chapa ) Bulgarian:печа́там (bg) impf ( pečátam ) Burmese:ပုံနှိပ် (my) ( pumhnip ) Catalan:imprimir (ca) Chinese:Cantonese:印 (yue) ( jan3 ) Mandarin:印刷 (zh) ( yìnshuā ) ,印 (zh) ( yìn ) Czech:tisknout (cs) impf Danish:udskrive (da) ,printe (da) Dutch:drukken (nl) ,afdrukken (nl) ,printen (nl) Esperanto:presi Estonian:trükkima Faroese:prenta Finnish:painaa (fi) ,tulostaa (fi) French:imprimer (fr) Galician:imprimir (gl) Georgian:ბეჭდავს ( beč̣davs ) German:drucken (de) Gujarati:છાપવું ( chāpvũ ) Hebrew:הִדְפִּיס ( hidpís ) Hindi:छापना (hi) ( chāpnā ) Hungarian:nyomtat (hu) Icelandic:prenta Ido:imprimar (io) Irish:clóbhuail Istriot:stanpà Italian:stampare (it) Japanese:印刷する (ja) ( いんさつする, insatsu suru ) Kashmiri:چھاپُن ( chāpun ) Kazakh:басу ( basu ) ,басып шығару ( basyp şyğaru ) Khmer:បោះពុម្ព (km) ( bɑh pum ) Korean:인쇄하다 (ko) ( inswaehada ) Kyrgyz:басып чыгаруу (ky) ( basıp cıgaruu ) Latin:imprimō Latvian:drukāt ,izdrukāt Lithuanian:spausdinti ,išspausdinti Lombard:stampà (lmo) Macedonian:печати impf ( pečati ) Malay:cetak (ms) Maori:tā ,perehi Mongolian:Cyrillic:хэвлэх (mn) ( xevlex ) Norman:împrînmer ( Jersey ) Norwegian:Bokmål:trykke (no) Occitan:imprimir (oc) Oromo:maxxansuu Persian:چاپ کردن (fa) ( čâp kardan ) ,چاپ زدن ( čâp zadan ) Polish:drukować (pl) impf Portuguese:imprimir (pt) Romanian:imprima (ro) Russian:печа́тать (ru) impf ( pečátatʹ ) ,напеча́тать (ru) pf ( napečátatʹ ) Scots:prent Scottish Gaelic:clò-bhuail Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:шта̑мпати impf ,ти̏скати impf Roman:štȃmpati (sh) impf ,tȉskati (sh) impf Slovak:tlačiť impf Slovene:tiskati (sl) impf ,natisniti pf Spanish:imprimir (es) ,emprimir ,impremir (es) Swedish:trycka (sv) Tagalog:iprint Tajik:чоп кардан ( čop kardan ) ,нашр кардан ( našr kardan ) Tatar:бастырырга ( bastırırga ) Thai:พิมพ์ (th) ( pim ) ,ตีพิมพ์ (th) ( dtii-pim ) Turkish:yazdırmak (tr) ,basmak (tr) Turkmen:çap etmek Ukrainian:друкува́ти impf ( drukuváty ) ,надрукува́ти pf ( nadrukuváty ) Urdu:چھاپنا ( chāpnā ) Uyghur:باسماق ( basmaq ) Uzbek:chop etmoq ,nashr etmoq ,bosmoq (uz) Venetan:stanpar Vietnamese:in (vi) ,chư in Volapük:bükön (vo) ,( photos ) litodön Welsh:argraffu (cy) ,printio Yiddish:דרוקן ( drukn )
to produce an integrated circuit in a process resembling the printing
to publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
to stamp or impress with coloured figures or patterns
to fix or impress, into or upon something
to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure
computing: to display a string on the terminal
print (countable anduncountable ,plural prints )
( uncountable ) Books and other material created byprinting presses , considered collectively or as amedium .Three citations are required for each meaning, including one inprint .
TV and the Internet haven't killedprint .
( uncountable ) Clearhandwriting , especially, writing without connected letters as incursive .Write inprint using block letters.
( uncountable ) Theletters forming thetext of a document.Theprint is too small for me to read.
( countable ) Anewspaper .1978 ,Philip Larkin ,The Winter Palace :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 publicprints [ …]
A visible impression on a surface.Using a crayon, the girl made aprint of the leaf under the page.
Afingerprint .Did the police find anyprints at the scene?
Afootprint . ( visual art ) Apicture that was created inmultiple copies by printing.( photography ) Aphotograph that has been printed onto paper from thenegative .( film ) A copy of afilm that can beprojected .Cloth that has had apattern ofdye printed onto it.1838 (date written),L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon ], “(please specify the page) ”, inLady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. [ … ] , volume I, London:Henry Colburn , [ … ] , published1842 ,→OCLC ,pages20–21 :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 darkprint .
( architecture ) Aplaster cast inbas relief .( finance ) Adatum .2023 , Ilia Bouchouev,Virtual Barrels : Quantitative Trading in the Oil Market , Springer,→ISBN , page150 :The reference index is calculated using monthly CPIprints but with a lag of between two and three months.
( antonym(s) of “ writing without connected letters ” ) : cursive books and other printed material as a medium
clear handwriting without connected letters
letters forming the text of a document
visible impression on a surface
visual art: picture created in multiple copies by printing
photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative
motion pictures: copy of a film
cloth that has a pattern printed on it
Translations to be checked
Borrowed fromEnglish print .
print
to print; toprint out or off; to produce one or morecopies of a text or image on asurface , especially by machine FromEnglish print .
print
( Hong Kong Cantonese ) toprint with aprinter or aphotocopier print
inflection ofprinten : first / second / third-person singular present indicative imperative Probably fromEnglish Print Screen .
print m or f (plural prints )
( Internet slang ) screenshot Synonyms: ( Portugal ) captura de ecrã ,( Brazil ) captura de tela ,screenshot tirarprint ―to take ascreenshot Borrowed fromEnglish print .
print n (plural printuri )
print Borrowed fromEnglish print .
print m (Cyrillic spelling принт )
Output of a computerprinter .