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English Online Dictionary. What means print‎? What does print mean?

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: prĭnt, IPA^(key): /pɹɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Adjective

print (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

Translations

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; 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. (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.

4. (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
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.
7. (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
8. (intransitive, slang) To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
9. (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
10. (finance, ambitransitive) To produce an observable value.

11. (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

print (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.
5. A visible impression on a surface.

6. A fingerprint.

7. A footprint.
9. (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
11. (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
12. (film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
13. Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
14. (architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
15. (finance) A datum.

Synonyms

• (a printed work): imprintery (obsolete)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “writing without connected letters”): cursive

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Print on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English print.

Verb

print

1. to print; to print out or off; to produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine

Chinese

Etymology

From English print.

Pronunciation

Verb

print

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to print with a printer or a photocopier

See also

• printer

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Verb

print

1. inflection of printen:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Portuguese

Etymology

Probably from English Print Screen.

Pronunciation

Noun

print m or f (plural prints)

1. (Internet slang) screenshot

   Synonyms: (Portugal) captura de ecrã, (Brazil) captura de tela, screenshot

   tirar print ― to take a screenshot

Related terms

• printar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English print.

Noun

print n (plural printuri)

1. print

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English print.

Noun

print m (Cyrillic spelling принт)

1. Output of a computer printer.

Derived terms

• prȉntati