prints

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.
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?

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