English Online Dictionary. What means printing? What does printing mean?
English
Etymology
By surface analysis, print + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪntɪŋ/
Noun
printing (countable and uncountable, plural printings)
- (uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
- Synonym: imprintery (obsolete)
- (uncountable) Synonym of printed matter.
- (countable) Synonym of print run (“all the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch”).
- (uncountable) Handwritten characters that are not joined up.
- Antonym: cursive
- Hypernym: handwriting
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Verb
printing
- present participle and gerund of print