printing
/ˈpɹɪntɪŋ/US[ˈpʰɹ̥ɪɾ̃ɪŋ]
printing noun: the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology. Also the present participle and gerund of print.
Noun
printing (countable and uncountable, plural printings)
- The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
- In those days, printing was big business in this city. Giant web-fed presses churned out countless tons of printed matter annually.
- Synonyms:
- imprintery
- Synonym of printed matter.
- They delivered a huge batch of printing yesterday, so you can expect an invoice shortly.
- Synonyms:
- printed matter
- Synonym of print run (“all the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch”).
- She owns a copy of the first printing, which is a favorite among book collectors because some of the typos in it seem like Freudian slips.
- Synonyms:
- print run
- Handwritten characters that are not joined up.
- The instructions said, "Please sign your name and then print your name below your signature," so he wrote out his name underneath in the neatest printing that his hand could muster.
- Antonyms:
- cursive
Also used as
printing is also the present participle and gerund of print.
printing meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
printing in Hindi
- प्रिंटिंग
printing in Tamil
- அச்சிடுதல், அச்சிடல்
printing in Urdu
- پرنٹنگ
printing in Bengali
- প্রিন্টিং
More languagesFewer languages
- printing in Telugu
- ప్రింటింగ్
- printing in Malayalam
- പ്രിന്റിംഗ്, പ്രിൻ്റിംഗ്
- printing in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಿಂಟಿಂಗ್
- printing in Punjabi
- ਪ੍ਰਿੰਟਿੰਗ
- printing in Gujarati
- છાપકામ chāpkām
- printing in Odia
- ପ୍ରିଣ୍ଟିଂ, ପ୍ରିଣ୍ଟିଙ୍ଗ
- printing in Nepali
- मुद्रण, प्रिन्टिङ, प्रिन्टिङ्
- printing in Arabic
- طِبَاعَة ṭibāʕa
- printing in Malay
- pencetakan, cetakan
- printing in Persian
- چاپ čâp
- printing in Vietnamese
- in ấn
Examples of printing in a sentence
- Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.
- Well, we're out of copy paper, so I guess there'll be no printing any printouts today!
- We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.
Synonyms of printing
Antonyms
Forms of printing
| plural | printings |
|---|
Origin of printing
By surface analysis, print + -ing.
Words formed from printing
- 3D printing
- bioprinting
- block printing
- carbon printing
- contact printing
- immunoprinting
- lenticular printing
- letter-quality printing
- microprinting
- nanoprinting
- nature printing
- necroprinting
- non-printing
- nonprinting
- offset printing
- pad printing
- printing form
- printing frame
- printing-house
- printing house
- printing in
- printing ink
- printing out
- printing paper
- printing press
- printing roll
- printing shop
- printing telegraph
- rat printing office
- relief printing
- rotary printing press
- screen printing
- silk-screen printing
- skip printing
- stretch printing
- teleprinting
- thermoprinting
- three-dimensional printing
- toeprinting
- viscosity printing
- whiteprinting
- woodblock printing
Phrases with printing
- printing up
- job printing
- printing inks
- printing forms
- printing money
- printing rolls
- printing shops
- printing frames
- printing houses
- printing papers
- jobbing printing
- printing presses
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Questions about printing
- What does printing mean?
- Printing means the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
- What is printing in Hindi?
- Printing in Hindi is प्रिंटिंग. See Printing meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is printing?
- Printing is a noun.
- How do you pronounce printing?
- Printing is pronounced /ˈpɹɪntɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of printing?
- The plural of printing is printings.
Words near printing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: printing (page history and authors); printing (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); printing (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); printing (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); printing (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); printing (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); printing (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); printing (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); printing (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); printing (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); printing (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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