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print

/pɹɪnt/

print adjective: of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

print: of, relating to, or writing for printed publications
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Adjective

print (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
    • a print edition of a book

Verb

print (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.
    • Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
    • Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the...2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN
  2. To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
    • The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
  3. (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
    • Print your name here and sign below.
    • I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.
  4. (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
    • How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
    • 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.
    • to print calico
  6. (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
    • 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
  7. (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
    • 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, […], →OCLC
  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.
    • 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, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN
  10. (ambitransitive) To produce an observable value.
    • On March 16, 2020, the S&P printed at 2,386.13, one of the worst drops in history.
  11. (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
    • 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

print (countable and uncountable, plural prints)

  1. (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
    • Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print.
    • TV and the Internet haven't killed print.
  2. (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
    • Write in print using block letters.
  3. (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
    • The print is too small for me to read.
  4. (countable) A newspaper.
    • 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 public prints […]1978, Philip Larkin, The Winter Palace
  5. A visible impression on a surface.
    • Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
  6. A fingerprint.
    • Did the police find any prints at the scene?
  7. A footprint.
  8. A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
    • An old print was discovered some time ago in an arch at Waterloo Dock Goods Station[,] Liverpool, in use as a backing on which to write time sheets.1957 August, “Notes and News: Tithebarn Street Station, Liverpool”, in Railway Magazine, page 589
  9. A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
    Synonyms:
    imprintery
  10. A copy of a film that can be projected.
  11. Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
    • 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, →OCLC...
  12. A plaster cast in bas relief.
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  1. A datum.
    • The reference index is calculated using monthly CPI prints but with a lag of between two and three months.2023, Ilia Bouchouev, Virtual Barrels : Quantitative Trading in the Oil Market, Springer, →ISBN, page 150
  2. A pattern or design.
    • Many designers consider leopard print rugs and carpeting to be classic floor coverings whose popularity spans centuries and continents.2013, Boles, Jennifer, The peak of chic, New York : Clarkson Potter, page 117
  3. (Ireland, UK, dialectal) A pat of butter, especially one pressed with a die.
    • A nice half griddle of whole-meal bread and a print of fresh butter were now produced, and Molly helped the mistress with her own hands.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 380

print meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

print in Hindi

to produce a copy of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine
छापना chāpnā

print in Tamil

அச்சிலுள்ளது, அச்சிடு, எழுது, வெளியீடு

print in Marathi

प्रिंट करा, मुद्रित करा

print in Urdu

to produce a copy of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine
چھاپنا chāpnā
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print in Bengali
ছাপা chapa
print in Telugu
ప్రింట్, ప్రింట్ చేయండి, ముద్రించండి
print in Malayalam
അച്ചടിക്കുക accaṭikkuka, പ്രിന്റ് ചെയ്യുക prinṟŭ ceyyuka
print in Kannada
ಚಿತ್ರ, ನಕ್ಷೆ, ಒತ್ತುಗುರುತು, ಮುದ್ರೆ
print in Punjabi
ਛਾਪਣਾ chāpṇā
print in Gujarati
છાપવું chāpvũ
print in Odia
ଛାପିବା chāpibā
print in Nepali
प्रिन्ट गर्नुहोस्, प्रिन्ट
print in Tagalog
iprint
print in Arabic
طَبَعَ ṭabaʕa
print in Malay
cetak
print in Persian
چاپ کردن čâp kardan, چاپ زدن čâp zadan
print in Thai
พิมพ์ pim, ตีพิมพ์ dtii-pim
print in Vietnamese
in, chư in
print in Myanmar
ပုံနှိပ် pumhnip
Kashmiri
چھاپُن chāpun, شایع کَرُن śāyʿ karun

Examples of print in a sentence

  • The restaurant had "Thank you for your patronage!" printed on its take-out bags.
  • I printed the report on form-feed paper, then burst the sheets.
  • The casino is just raking in the cash; it’s like a licence to print money.

All 40 example sentences with print

Synonyms of print

Antonyms

Forms of print

Verb
third-person singular presentprints
present participleprinting
past participleprinted
pastprinted
second-person singular present (archaic)printest
second-person singular past (archaic)printedst
third-person singular present (archaic)printeth
Noun
pluralprints

Past tense of print: printed

Plural of print: prints

Origin of print

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”).

Words formed from print

Phrases with print

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Words that rhyme with print

16 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about print

What does print mean?
Print means of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
What is print in Hindi?
Print in Hindi is छापना (chāpnā). See Print meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is print?
Print can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce print?
Print is pronounced /pɹɪnt/.

Words near print in the dictionary

  1. prinning
  2. prinomide
  3. prins
  4. Prinsep
  5. Prinsley
  6. print
  7. print bed
  8. print beds
  9. print butter
  10. print disabilities
  11. print disability

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: print (page history and authors); print (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); print (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); print (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); അച്ചടിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); print (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਛਾਪਣਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ଛାପିବା (Odia) (page history and authors); print (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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